Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 17:27:15 -0400 From: John Pustaver Subject: MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wed, June 14, The 'Quality On Time' Test Methodology for Dot Coms: Achieving Verifiable Levels of Coverage in Abbreviated Time Frames Hi Everyone, Again, at this meeting, we will be giving away books to lucky attendees. We have 2 copies of Total Quality Management for Software, edited by Gordon Schulmeyer and James McManus to give away. I hope to see you there. Best wishes, John Pustaver Region I Councilor ASQ Software Division 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, June 14, 2000 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: The 'Quality On Time' Test Methodology for Dot Coms: Achieving Verifiable Levels of Coverage in Abbreviated Time Frames SPEAKER: Tom Poirier, Conduciv, inc MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: This presentation explores the author's "Quality On Time" methodology where test and process automation is used to achieve verifiable levels of test coverage in Test Execution Cycle time frames as short as 8 hours. Key topics and ideas include: Defining Test Coverage Code Coverage Requirements/Use Case Coverage Object Coverage Interface Coverage Suggested coverage thresholds and methods for achieving Components of Comprehensive Test Architectures Test Management UI Functional Regression Testing Application-tier Testing API Testing Simulators Load and Stress Testing The Challenge of Dot Coms: Covering n-tiered Architectures How measured? How met? Controlling Test Execution Cycle Time Sinks (Black Holes) QA Acceptance Criteria Test Readiness Auditor Metrics and Information Basic Metrics Management Metrics Metrics Analysis as Keys to Process Improvement Thomas J. Poirier is President of Conduciv inc., a software quality automation solution provider specializing in Client/Server and Web applications. He had over 15 years experience as a software developer, software development manager, software QA technical lead, and software test automation expert. He is the chief architect of the "Quality On Time" test automation methodology, has published numerous papers and has spoken at numerous conferences. Most recently, he was a featured speaker at the 1999 Mercury Interactive Worldwide User's Conference in Orlando, and at STAR West '99 in San Jose. Mr. Poirier is a founding member of NESQAF and currently serves on the NESQAF Board of Directors. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on July, 2000: Annual Hot Topics Night (Start thinking about topics!) 1999-2000 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 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 Management topic TBD Apr 12, 2000: Bill Harmon, Meaningful Metrics May 10, 2000: Elfriede Dustin, Automated Testing Life-cycle Methodology May 24, 2000: Cem Kaner, Regression Testing Jun 14, 2000: Tom Poirier, The "Quality on Time" Test Methodology for Dot Coms: Achieving Verifiable Levels of Coverage in Abbreviated Time Frames 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. There is NO charge. 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