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
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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.