[news.announce.conferences] software quality conference registration information

sstrater@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Sue Strater) (08/21/87)

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                FIFTH ANNUAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST SOFTWARE QUALITY CONFERENCE
                            THEME: EFFECTIVE SOFTWARE PRACTICES

                            WHEN:  October 19-20, 1987
                            WHERE: Sheraton Hotel - Portland Airport 
                                   8235 NE Airport Way
                                   Portland, Oregon 

            
THE CONFERENCE - MONDAY, OCT. 19                    WORKSHOPS - TUESDAY, OCT. 20 
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Beginning at 7:30 AM will be                        Enrollment for each workshop
exhibits, coffee, and registration.                 is limited to 25 to 30
The conference begins at 8:30 AM                    people.  All workshops begin
with the keynote address. The                       at 8:30 AM and last all day.
keynote is titled 'The Japanese                     Lunch is included.
View of Software Quality' by                        The cost of a workshop is
Donald Reifer.                                      $100.  See workshop 
                                                     application form below.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRACK                           
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Session 1: MANAGEMENT TOOLS                        
1. How to Organize a Software Project
2. Delivering on Commitments: Process
   Measures to Improve R&D Scheduling               Workshop 1:                 
   Accuracy                                         DESIGNING HUMAN/COMPUTER
3. Managing Software Projects Through                     INTERFACES
   a Metrics-Driven Lifecycle  
                                                    o Task Analysis and 
Session 4: CASE STUDIES                               Conceptual Design
1. The Copyright 'Look and Feel' Issue              o Functional Design
2. Defining and Installing a CASE Environment       o Dialog Design
3. How to make the System Work: A Review of a       o Interaction Techniques
   Successful Software Project
                                                    Instructor is Dr. Charles
Session 7: SOFTWARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT              Crowley, professor of
1. Documentation of Software Test Experience        Computer Science at Un. of
   with an Expert System                            New Mexico.
2. A Case Study of a Basic Quality Measurement
3. How to Decide When to Stop Testing
                                                    Workshop 2:
                                                    HOW TO ORGANIZE A SOFTWARE
REUSABILITY TRACK                                   ENGINEERING PROJECT
=================                                
                                                    o Project Management
Session 2: LIBRARIES: FINDING AND RETRIEVING        o The Organizational Process
1. Design Documentation Retrofitting: An            o Step-by-Step Procedures
   Approach for Retrieving Reusable Code
2. Pacific Bell's UNIX/C Library Effort:            Instructor is Jerry Luengen,
   An Example of a Means of Taking Advantage        who is currently an advisor
   of Reusability                                   to several Fortune 500 
3. Fulcrum: A Reusable Code Library Toolset         companies on project 
                                                    management training.
Session 5: DESIGNING FOR REUSABILITY
1. An Environment to Promote Software 
   Reusability at the Design Specification Level    Workshop 3:
2. Software Reuse with Metaprogramming Systems      MODERN SOFTWARE TOOL
3. An Object-Oriented Kernel for Composite Objects     ENVIRONMENTS

Session 8: REUSABILITY: TODAY AND TOMORROW          o Evaluation of Existing
1. XRLIB: An Overview of the X Window System          Tools
2. Technology Update: Object-Oriented Programming   o Toolsmithing
                                                    o Creating Programming
                                                      Environments
MEETING CUSTOMER NEEDS TRACK 
===========================                           Instructor is Donald
                                                      Reifer, our keynote
Session 3: USER INTERFACE                             speaker.
1. Quality Issues in Product Planning Work
2. Making Menu Interface Systems More User-Friendly
3. Automated Testing of User Interfaces             Workshop 4:
                                                    OBJECT-ORIENTED
Session 6: THEORY OF TESTING                        PROGRAMMING AND C++
1. Computer Systems as Scientific Theories:
   A Popperian Approach to Testing                  o Type Checking
2. A Model for Code-Based Testing Techniques        o Data Abstraction
3. RELAY: A New Model for Error Detection           o Object-Oriented
                                                       Programming
Session 9: SOFTWARE CONCEPTS
1. Turing: A Trustworthy Programming Language       Instructor is Dr. Bjarne
2. Machine-Aided Production of Software Tests       Stroustrup, the originator
3. Bang Metrics: An Ongoing Experiment              of C++ and a member of the
   at Hewlett-Packard.                              Computer Science Research
                                                    Center at Bell Labs.   

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   CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM 

   Please mail this form with your check made payable to Pacific Northwest
   Software Quality Conference.  The registration fee includes lunch and the
   Conference Proceedings.  Enclose $80 if your registration will be 
   postmarked by October 5, 1987,(else enclose $90) and mail to PNSQC, 
   c/o Lawrence & Craig, PO Box 40244, Portland, Oregon 97240.  

   NAME____________________________________________________________ 

   AFFILIATION_____________________________________________________  

   ADDRESS_________________________________________________________

   CITY____________________________STATE____________ZIP____________ 

   DAYTIME PHONE___________________________________________________

   Please circle your session choice for each of the three times periods:

          10:00 AM               1:00 PM              3:00 PM

         1    2   3             4   5   6            7   8   9

   Feel free to photocopy this form for additional registrants.   Thank you.   

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    WORKSHOP APPLICATION  

   If you are interested in attending a workshop, please complete the
   Workshop Application form and mail it promptly.  Do NOT enclose
   payment. We will notify you by mail whether or not your application
   is accepted.  Payment of the $100 registration fee should be made only
   after you have received confirmation that your application has been
   accepted.

   If you are interested in attending a workshop, please mail this form 
   promptly to PNSQC, c/o Lawrence & Craig, PO Box 40244, Portland, Or.
   97240.  Do NOT enclose Payment.

   NAME____________________________________________________________ 

   AFFILIATION_____________________________________________________  

   ADDRESS_________________________________________________________

   CITY____________________________STATE____________ZIP____________ 

   DAYTIME PHONE___________________________________________________

   Please check your choice of workshop. (You may write 2 by a second choice.)

   ____ 1. Designing Human/Computer Interfaces
   
   ____ 2. How to Organize a Software Engineering Project

   ____ 3. Modern Software Tool Environments

   ____ 4. Object-Oriented Programming and C++

   
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If you have any questions: Call Lawrence & Craig, Inc. at (503)/222-2606.