Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:06:59 -0400 (EDT) From: John Pustaver Subject: REMINDER: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wednesday, Oct 21, 1998, Test Automation with Cruise Control Hi everyone, Note that this meeting will be held on the 3rd Wednesday instead of our traditional 2nd Wednesday. I hope to see you at the meeting. John Software Quality Group Meeting Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (with occasional exceptions) at the facilities of Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington, Massachusetts (see below for directions). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, Oct 21, 1998 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: Test Automation with Cruise Control SPEAKER: Brian Le Suer, Consultant and co-founder of Star Quality MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington DESCRIPTION: This presentation will describe a technique for developing automated tests which continues to disprove the notion that automated testing is only for regression testing. Using the methods described in this presentation, the test engineer will be able to develop reusable and maintainable automated tests faster than with traditional methods. Brian Le Suer is a co-founder of Star Quality, a consulting group providing expertise and services in Software Quality Assurance, Test Automation and Project Management. Prior to founding Star Quality, he served as Executive Vice President of R&D for Segue Software. Brian has over fifteen years of experience in software development, testing and test automation. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on Nov 11, 1998, the 2nd Wednesday. Mike Sowers will speak on "Building and Retaining a High Performance SQA Organization." 1998-1999 Software Quality Group Calendar Nov. 11, 1998 Building and Retaining a High Performance SQA Organization Mike Sowers, SQA Director,Baldridge Award Examiner Dec. 9, 1998 Test Case Management for Small to Medium Sized Projects Derek Kozikowski Jan. 13, 1999 Using Historical Defect Data to Predict Time of Project Completion Jeff Singer Feb. 10, 1999 Test Automation with Robot Jeff Brooks, Rational Mar. 10, 1999 Improving Test Effectiveness Steve Rakitin, Consultant and author Apr. 14, 1999 Use Case Modeling Purr McEwen, Waterfield Technology Group May 12, 1999 Open June 9, 1999 Open The Software Quality Group holds monthly meetings. Topics covered at these meetings have included software testing, inspections, ISO 9000, 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 Waterfield Technology Group, Lexington Office Park, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington, 2nd floor, next to the elevator. This is just off of route 95 (AKA 128) at the Rtes 4 & 225 exit in Lexington. Take the west bound exit. 430 Bedford Street is on the left in Lexington Office Park just before the Denny's restaurant but you can't make a left here so you have to go to the turn-around a little further up the road. 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 co-sponsored by 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 Bill Nicholson, Waterfield Technology Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software Quality Consulting voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver