Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 13:18:13 -0500 From: John Pustaver Subject: REMINDER: Software Quality Group Meeting (and book giveaway), Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2000, The Basics You Need to Start Working With When You Are All Alone in the Lab Thanks to everyone who responded to Miriam's request. Original message is below. Hi Everyone, Miriam Boucher is looking for information on web load testing tools. If you have used any of the tools out there and would like to give some advice, please send her an email at . Again, at this month's meeting, 2 lucky attendees will each receive a copy of the book, Total Quality Management for Software, edited by Gordon Schulmeyer and James McManus. Best wishes, John P.S. My apologies for the errant email the other day. My Eudora software has developed a mind of its own. I'm working on taming it. Meeting of the Software Quality Group of New England Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2000 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: The Basics You Need to Start Working With When You Are All Alone in the Lab SPEAKER: Stephanie Beach, SQA Manager, Aspect Communications MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: This discussion is particularly focused for those newbie QA engineers who need some help getting started with developing their own Quality Department without getting bogged down in obscure statistics, reading tons of reports & literature, and purchasing expensive tools. More experienced QA Engineers and Managers should find some helpful information and will be welcome to offer their experience at the end of the workshop. This workshop will include: The simple tools you need. How to handle the life cycles of your product. Reporting the progress of the product. Structure and organization of your Department. Cost justification. Beginning, middle and final reports. Who is your audience and how to write to them. System Dynamics in SQA (if time allows) Stephanie Beach is a Quality Assurance Manager / Engineer that has been working for Startup companies for the past 20 years. Finally settling down at Aspect Communications in Chelmsford. Over the past 15 years, Stephanie has developed a practical, no nonsense method of starting a quality assurance department. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on Mar 8, 2000: Valerie Nolan, Configuration Managment 1999 Software Quality Group Calendar Oct. 13, 1999: Mike Sowers, Getting results with Technical Reviews and Inspections through web based automation. Nov. 10, 1999: Anna Allison , Managing for Success: The High Quality Equation Dec. 8, 1999: Test Automation Panel Discussion Jan 12, 2000: Chuck Connell, Turning Around Software Projects That Are Off Track (tentative title) Feb 9, 2000: Stephanie Beach, Aspect Communications: The basics you need to start working with when you are all alone in the lab. Mar 8, 2000: Valerie Nolan, Configuration Managment topic TBD Apr 12, 2000: Bill Harmon, Meaningful Metrics (tentative title) May 10, 2000: Elfriede Dustin, Software Test Automation Jun 14, 2000: (tentative) EXCEED and other rapid application development models July 12, 2000: Annual Hot Topics Night The Software Quality Group holds monthly meetings. Topics covered at these meetings have included software testing, inspections, ISO 9000, metrics configuration management, and demonstrations of vendor QA tools. There is no charge. The Software Quality Group meets monthly at 6:15pm on the second Wednesday of the month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA. Driving directions: >From 128/95 Take the Rt. 3 exit heading north (not the Middlesex Turnpike exit if you're coming form the south). From Rt. 3N take the first exit (which is Rt. 62 - Bedford Ave). Turn east toward Burlington. Approximately 0.3 mile after the interchange, turn right onto Network Drive, which leads to the campus on your right. Take the second drive off of Network Drive into the Sun parking lot. Park in the visitor lot and enter the lobby opposite the Sun clock tower. Information about future meetings will be available on the Software Quality Page at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver. To be on the email distribution list, send a note to pustaver@swquality.com. The Software Quality Group is cosponsored by Sun Microsystems and the ASQ Software Division and all are welcome. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, Region I Councilor, American Society for Quality, Software Division and Paul Ratty, Sun Microsystems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software Quality Consulting voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver