Problem Solving with TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE Conference

          The Oldest Continuous Annual Conference on Software Testing Is
                                                  Ready to Assist You!

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Do you have problems with:

      * Testing the increasingly complex applications of your organization
      * Testing the Year 2000 (Y2K) Conversion Process
      * Management asking you to do more testing with fewer resources
      * Developing strategies for improving your testing process

then you should come to the

                                        14th International Conference on

                                                TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE
                                                    Theme: Test Automation

                                                          June 16-19, 1997
                Washington, D.C. * Sheraton Premiere (Tyson's Corner) * USA

CONFERENCE FEATURES:
* International speakers
* Presentations of current best testing practices
* Presentations based on the experiences of actual testing practitioners
* Opportunities to share lessons and experiences with your peers
* Vendor show of products and services

CONFERENCE STRUCTURE:
* General sessions
* Concurrent tracks:
    - Management
    - Automation
    - Advanced Topics
    - Issues
* Pre-conference tutorials:
    - Full day technical sessions for software testing practitioners
* Vendor exhibits of products and services: Providers of test support
    services and software will display their products

FEATURED SPEAKERS:
* Boris Beizer
* Peter de Jager
* Dorothy Graham
* Marnie Hutcheson
* Warren Reid

IN COOPERATION WITH:
* American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) Software Division
* Software Technology Support Center (STSC)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM BY:
Frontier Technologies, Inc.

CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT BY:
U.S. Professional Development Institute

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

* Test Engineers
* Software Engineers
* Testing Specialists
* Project Leaders
* EDP Auditors
* Quality Assurance Staffs
* Test Managers
* Development Managers
* Programmers
* Systems Analysts
* Systems Acceptance Staffs
* DP Managers

CONFERENCE VOLUME

A set of conference proceedings, papers and view graphs will be provided
to each participant of the conference. These materials are useful not only
during the conference as learning guides, but also as useful references
when the conference is completed.

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                                                    CONFERENCE PROGRAM SUMMARY

                                  CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (Monday, June 16, 1997)

      * Foundations of Software Testing Techniques
      * Testing for Year 2000 Conversion
      * Fundamentals of Internet/Intranet Application Testing
      * Automating Software Testing
      * A Management View of Software Testing
      * Requirements-Driven Test Management

                                CONFERENCE (Tuesday-Thursday, June 17-19, 1997)

GENERAL SESSIONS

      * Test Automation: Coming of Age
      * The Year 2000 Crisis
      * 2001: A Legal Odyssey
      * Testing Issues Surrounding the Year 2000
      * Testing on the Web
      * Conference Reflections -- and a Few Surprises Thrown In!

MANAGEMENT TRACK

      * Automation Opportunities in the Test Processes
      * Test it Again -- How Long?
      * From Problem Child to Responsible Adult
      * Managing a Successful Transition from Manual to Automated Testing
      * Helpful Techniques When Testing Extremely Large Systems
      * Risk Based Testing of a Large Financial Application
      * Suitability Testing
      * Testing Capability Maturity Model

AUTOMATION TRACK

      * Automated Testing Works in the Trenches
      * Test Automation: Sharing the Responsibility for Quality
      * Test Automation Snake Oil
      * Is Test Automation Really Straightforward and Inexpensive?
      * Test Automation at AIU: How we Did More with Less
      * Experiences with Automated Testing
      * How One Company Recognized and Implemented Automated Testing
      * Test Automation in the Advanced Applications Group at Cabletron
          Systems

ISSUES TRACK

      * The Year 2000 and Testing (double session)
      * Practical Approaches for Testing Non-visible Software
      * Testing with Action Words; Abandoning Record and Playback
      * Testing a Five Terabyte Database Application to Determine
          Performance, Availability and Reliability
      * Testing Without "Good" Specifications
      * Lessons Learned: Making the Transition to Client/Server
      * Equivalence Testing for Reverse Engineering

ADVANCED TOPICS TRACK

      * The Ability of Non-Representative Tests to Predict Software Quality
      * Estimating Reliability During Non-Representative Testing
      * Model Based Testing: A Methodology for Improving Quality
      * A Programmable Architecture for Scalable Test Automation (PASTA)
      * The Use of Run-Time Profiling to Locate Date-Dependent Branches and
          Sites of Run-Time Failures
      * Testing CDE in Sixty Languages: One Test Is All it Takes
      * The Challenges in Automated Testing of Multithreaded Programs
      * Automated Testing of Computed Tomography Scanners

The continuously updated program with links to speakers' organizations and
other information is also available on the Web as:

                                      http://www.uspdi.org/conference

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FOR THE FULL CONFERENCE AND/OR REGISTRATION INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Regular Mail: USPDI, 612 Ethan Allen Avenue, Suite 100; Takoma Park,
                            MD 20912-5400 (USA)
Phone: 301/270-1033
Fax: 301/270-1040
E-mail: admin@uspdi.org (Subject: Testing Computer Software
                            Conference)
WWW: http://www.uspdi.org/conference

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