sstrater@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Sue Strater) (08/21/87)
- - 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 -------------------------------- ---------------------------- 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 ======================== 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. =========================================================================== 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. =========================================================================== 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++ =========================================================================== If you have any questions: Call Lawrence & Craig, Inc. at (503)/222-2606.