Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:59:33 -0500 From: John Pustaver Subject: REMINDER: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wednesday, Feb 10, 1999, Rational's Test Automation Tools 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, Feb 10, 1999 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: Rational's Test Automation Tools SPEAKER: Jeff Brooks and Scott Rudenstein, Rational Software MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington DESCRIPTION: Jeff Brooks will give an overview of Rational, and what technology areas they cover. He will also talk briefly about each tool, and how it addresses those technology areas. He will then focus on the testing tools. He will also mention the recently announced Rational Suites, which tightly integrate Rational's leading products to unify, optimize, and simplify team development. Rational Suites, such as TestStudio, are geared for a particular role on the development or testing team. Scott Rudenstein will demonstrate the testing tools. Scott will demonstrate TeamTest version 7.1, which is Rational's GUI and regression testing tool. TeamTest is comprised of a record and playback engine, a repository for all test elements, as well as a built-in defect tracking tool. The version to be demonstrated also has the capability to test Java/html apps. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on Mar. 10, 1999, the 2nd Wednesday. Steve Rakitin, Consultant and author will speak on Improving Test Effectiveness 1999 Software Quality Group Calendar 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 Optimum Software Testing Bill Silver, Principal, Quality Fractals June 9, 1999 SQA and testing, bringing it all together - combining quality activities and testing, Margot Sevigny-Martin July 14, 1999 Annual Hot Topics Night August 1999 No meeting Sep. 8, 1999 Functional Safety, Milt Boyd, Factory Mutual System 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 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 cosponsored 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