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Software Research: TestWorks For UNIX TestWorks For Windows SR/Institute: Quality Week (May, San Francisco Bay Area, USA) Quality Week Europe (November, Brussels, Belgium) Updated 11Nov99 |
We invite you to stop by for a coffee any time if you're in the area.
Our facility operates 8-6 Pacific time every workday.
You can download the latest CAPBAK/Web at:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Download.40/down.evalid.40.phtml?status=FORM.
To get a new license key, send e-mail to licenses@soft.com or use the
form on our website at:
http://www.soft.com/Products/Downloads/send.license.html
If you already have a current license key it should work with the new version. If your current key does
not work you will have to renew it: send email to sales@soft.com.
QW2000 Call for Participation.
The
QWE'99 Call for Participation is now available.
The theme chosen for QW2000 is: New Century, New Beginnings.
Papers are due by 21 January 2000.
Candidate speakers should use the
Speaker Data Sheet to simplify processing of submissions.
Complete details about QW2000, including availability of information
for exhibitors, is found at the
QW2000 Conference HomePage.
Our HotList, with 2400+ links, has been re-designed
to be much more user-friendly. The categories include: Professional Societies & Organizations;
Government Organizations; Non-Commercial Organizations; Educational & Academic Institutions;
Commercial Organizations; Consultancies; Standards & Standards Organizations; Quality Related
Technical Conferences; Technical Literature and Sources of Information; Selected Technology
Sites; and Software Quality & Test Technology Topics. Each main category
is organized into 10 separate pages, making it much easier to view, and much quicker to download.
TTN Online for November 1999.
Articles for November include:
Quality Week 2000 - Call for Participation;
"Testing Best & Worst Practices -- A Baker's Dozen" by Boris Beizer;
TestWorks' Corner - CAPBAK/Web Update;
"NASA Says Human Error Caused Loss of Mars Craft" by Michael Miller;
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computer Related Systems;
Best T-Shirts of the Summer.
The
3rd International Software Quality Week Europe,
held 1-5 November 1999 in Brussels,
showed growth in numbers and quality over the prior event.
With over 80 papers and more than 300 attending,
QWE'99 got very strong positive reactions from all of the attendees.
QWE'99 had two award ceremonies this year: the "Best Paper Award", sponsored by
Gitek n.v., and presented by Rita
Verreydt and Ruud Teunissen,
went to Niels-Bruun Svendsen,
for his paper Error Trending, Why & How.
There were two runners-up for the
Best Paper Award:
Peter Fröhlich & Johannes Link for their paper
Modeling Dynamic Behaviour Based on Use Cases, and
John Elliott & Peter Raynor-Smith, for their
paper Customer Satisfaction Through Improved
Requirements Understanding.
The Best Presentation Award, sponsored by
Qualityhouse, and presented by
Rob van der Pouw Kraan, was given to
Marcelo Dalceggio for his presentation of "
Automated Software Inspection Process", co-authored by
Alvaro Ruiz de Mendarozqueta.
One of the many highlights of the QWE'99 conference was the special book signing sessions
by Robert Binder,
Martin Pol, and
Tim Koomen.
Check out the complete
QWE'99 Photo Album with over 80 photos of
different QWE'99 events.
And mark your calendars now for QW 2000,
30 May - 2 June 2000, in San Jose, California, and
QWE 2000, 6-10 November 2000, in Brussels, Belgium.
Quality Week Europe '99 is proud to announce NEW sessions
in the Bonus Conference dedicated to European Software Issues. Some of the papers are:
This Bonus Conference is included in the registration fee, PLUS: Over 36 regular papers in 3
parallel tracks (Tools & Technology, Applications & Solutions and Process & Management) for 3 days.
Bonus Conference on "The Web". Vendor Technical Presentations. State-of-the-Art Solution Supplier
Exhibition.
IN COOPERATION WITH: ACM,
ACM SIGSOFT,
ASQ,
ESI,
ESSI,
SAI &
TestNet.
INDUSTRY SPONSORS:
CMG Information Technology,
Gitek n.v.,
IQUIP Informatica BV,
Mercury Interactive,
Qualityhouse BV,
Reasoning,
Compuware &
ps_testware.
EXHIBITORS:
Addison Wesley Longman (SPECIAL Book Signing!),
CMG Information Technology,
Compuware,
Computer Associates International,
ErgoLight,
EWO Software,
Gitek n.v.,
Integri n.v.,
IQUIP Informatica BV,
IPL Information Processing Ltd.,
McCabe & Associates,
Mercury Interactive,
Q-Labs,
Reasoning,
Software Research,
and more.
Look for complete information at http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QWE99/
or request a copy of the program by Email from qw@soft.com.
There is a new release available of CAPBAK/Web,
our fully featured Web Browser (based on IE 4.n or 5.n) that is test enabled.
CAPBAK/Web functions include:
recording and playback of user sessions in both true-time AND object mode;
use of "test wizards" that create all links, all buttons, and FORM-content tests passages;
validation of selected text (for confirmation of user interactions);
detailed msec resolution timing;
multiple playback capability.
New features in CAPBAK/Web [IE] Ver. 1.5 (Early Release 04Oct99) include:
You can download CAPBAK/Web at:
To get a new license key, send Email to licenses@soft.com or use the
form on our website:
If you already have a current license key it should work with the new version. If your current
key does not work you will have to renew it; send email to sales@soft.com.
Please contact sales@soft.com for details.
New Downloadable Version of CAPBAK/Web [IE] Ver. 1.5 our breakthrough
WebSite quality checking and performance test system.
Features added in the new 20 Sep 99 version of CAPBAK/Web [IE] include:
QWE'99 Brochure Downloadable. You can download a copy of the Quality
Week Europe '99 brochure at:
http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QWE99/qwe99.down.brochure.html.
DACS Publishes Special Software Testing Edition.
The
DoD Data & Analysis Center for Software
has published a version of an SR White Paper
WebSite Testing
in its current Software Tech News, in the first of two special issues on Software Testing.
See the
Contents of the Newsletter
for complete details.
QWE'99 Technical Program Announced
The complete Technical Program
for QWE'99 has been announced.
With 14 tutorial presentations, six keynotes, and nearly 50 other presentations,
QWE'99 appears to be shaping up to be an excellent technical event.
Complete details on the program can at the
QWE'99 Conference Home Page.
TTN Online for July 1999.
Articles for include:
Test Automation Snake Oil, by James Bach (Part 2 of 2);
TestWorks Corner: Hot Items for TestWorks Users;
Re: Ten Commandments of Software Testing;
QWE'99 Update: Advisory Board, Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards, Sponsors;
Apologies: Emailing Failure in June 1999 TTN Issue Distribution Explained;
Testing Futures in the Telephone Industry;
Notice: John Gannon, University of Maryland Computer Scientist;
ACM Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE'9);
Software Quality Professional -- A New Journal Launched;
Designer Viruses;
Ada-Belgium'99: Call for Participation;
CRL Report: Sequential Scenarios Verification and Integration using Tabular Expressions, by Dr. Ridha Khedri;
24th Annual SEW (NASA Goddard, Greenbelt Maryland): Call for Papers.
In a recent
QWE'99 Press Release
SR/Institute has announced detailed plans for the
3rd Annual International Software Quality
Week Conference (QWE'99) to be held in Brussels, BELGIUM 1-5 November 1999.
"Somebody finally did it right..." says
Ed Bennett, from Internet QA, about
CAPBAK/Web:
SR In Software Magazine Top 500.
SR has been included in Software Magazine's June 1999 issue
17th Annual Ranking of the 500 World's Largest Software Companies.
New White Paper WebSite Testing by Edward Miller.
A new White Paper,
WebSite Testing, by Edward Miller has been made available
on the TestWorks WebSite.
The paper discusses the requirements that lead to the creation of the CAPBAK/Web product,
and discusses how CAPBAK/Web can fit into a general WebSite testing methods.
Early Release of CAPBAK/Web [IE] Ver. 1.5 for Windows.
The latest version of the newest entry in the TestWorks product line,
CAPBAK/Web [IE],
is now available for evaluation. This version features:
Download the CAPBAK/Web [IE] Ver. 1.5
and obtain a FREE
Evaluation License Key.
If you wish we will prepare a
2-Deep TestSuite for you for a
WebSite URL that you specify.
Send Email to
sales@soft.com for complete details.
TTN-Online June 1999.
Articles for this month include:
QW'99: The Biggest, Best Quality Week Ever;
Bad Software Blamed for $1.2 Billion Space Failure (Forwarded by John Favaro);
eBayla: A New Flavor of Virus (Forwarded by Jeff Kinzli);
Call for Participation to the European Summer School on Reliability and Safety of Human-Machine Systems;
Some Very Simplified Rules of English Grammar (Not Quite Anonymous Email Sent To The Editor By Walter Baziuk);
When are Your Projects Ready to Ship? by Johanna Rothman;
TestWorks Corner: Hot Items for TestWorks Users;
Reader Comments (Bill Mosteller);
Is There a Stepwise Approach to Software Testing Process Improvement? A Birds-of-a-Feather Session;
TSEPM Availability Notice;
The Product Safety and Liability Prevention Program: What You Can't Do Without, by Lewis Bass;
43rd European Quality Congress: Pre-congress on Business Excellence for Software Organisations;
Special Issue on Developing Fault-Tolerant Systems with Ada in International Journal of Computer Systems;
The QW'99 Best Paper Award as voted by the QW'99 participants
went to
Mr. Nick Borelli (Microsoft Corporation) for his
paper entitled
Seizing Control of the Development Lifecycle (7M2) .
Nick will be presenting his paper at QWE'99 to be held in Brussels, Belgium on 1-5 November 1999.
During the QW'99 event we took ~350 photos with a digital camera.
You can look at the results in our
QW'99 Photo Album.
Free 2-Deep TestSuites Offered.
If you are testing a WebSite you'll want to take advantage of our Free
2-Deep TestSuite offer.
You specify your URL; we generate a complete TestSuite for the top two layers
of your WebSite. The TestSuite runs with SMARTS and CAPBAK/Web.
To request a 2-Deep Suite for your URL please use the
2-Deep TestSuite Request Form.
Or, request complete details from
sales@soft.com.
TestWorks for SCO ODT3/ODT5 Downloadable.
We have completed builds of the TestWorks product line for SCO ODT 3 and ODT 5 environments
and have put these new bundles on the WebSite for downloading.
The downloads include the most-recent versions of TestWorks/Regression,
TCAT/C-C++, TCAT for Java, and TestWorks/Advisor.
Complete information from
Download SCO ODT5 Versions of TestWorks.
Three possible downloads for SCO ODT 3/ODT 5 are available:
NOTE to existing TestWorks users:
These new builds will run with your current license keys.
April 2003
New Location.
Effective 28 April 2003 SR, Inc. and SR/Institute moved to a
new Corporate Headquarters facility located at 1663 Mission Street, Suite 400.
The move to our new facility gave us a chance to reorganize
our facility in ways that will help us serve our customers more
efficiently and also gives us plenty of space for future growth.
For reference here are the new address,
Company phone, E-mail and Fax number.
Software Research, Inc.
SR/Institute, Inc.
1663 Mission Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103 USA
Tel: +1 (415) 861-2800
Fax: +1 (415) 861-9801
Email: info@soft.com
January 2000
December 1999
November 1999
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CAPBAK/Web Updates
This is a summary of the latest build of CAPBAK/Web.
CAPBAK/Web is a fully featured Web browser based on IE 4.n or 5.n that is test enabled.
CAPBAK/Web test and validation functions include:
TTN becomes QTN...
We have both expanded the scope and recognized the inevitability of the importance of
the Internet. Expanded the scope to include not only "testing" but more general
quality issues as well, including process, risk management...
Expanded the range to include not only conventional application development,
client/server application development, but also website and e-commerce application
development. This reflects the certain future dominance of the Internet and
Internet-based or Internet-evolved systems and approaches. We hope you enjoy the
NEW QTN!
December 1999
TTN Online for December 1999.
Articles for December include:
Quality Week 2000 - Call for Participation;
The New Yorker's Tribute to Y2K;
"It Depends" by Johanna Rothman;
This Monthin the "new" WorldSafety News;
"CMM in Practice: Processes for Executing Software Projects at Infosys" by Pankaj Jalote Now Available;
Season's Greetings from Software Research and SR/Institute.
November 1999
Check out the new HotList!
October 1999
TTN Online for October 1999.
Articles for October include:
Quality Week Europe 1999 -- Final Two Weeks, Sepcial Events Described;
Effective Beta Testing, by Michael Bolton;
TestWorks Corner: CAPBAK/Web Builds, New QuickLook eValid Test Service, More!;
Y2K Dates on Windows: Readers Respond...;
Correction: Found that URL...;
"Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Model, Patterns, and Tools" Released;
ICS Distinguished Speaker Series: Human Competitive Machine Intelligence
by Means of Genetic Programming, by John Koza;
SERG Report #380 & 381.
September 1999
TTN Online for September 1999.
Articles for September include:
Quality Week Europe 99 - Conference Details;
Special Issue of the "International Journal of Computer Research";
TestWorks Corner: Simple, Powerful Scripts with CAPBAK/Web;
It's Just the First Slip...by Johanna Rothman;
Ieuan Jones -- in Memorial;
Klingon Programmers Unite!
SERG Report 378: Semantic Equality of Tables -- Ms. Kavitha Naharajah;
System Horror Stories Wanted;
Is this a Genuine Y2K fix? Opinions Invited.
You can download an updated copy of CAPBAK/Web [IE] at:
http://www.soft.com/Products/Downloads/down.capbakweb.html.
August 1999
TTN Online for August 1999.
Articles for August include:
Quality Week Europe 1999 -- Technical Program;
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) Approved by Cem Kaner;
TestWorks Corner: CAPBAK/Web, P4 & P4+ Web Performance Test Suites,;
Subscription Test Services, DEC Alpha OSF/1 upgrades.;
Software Testing Video Available;
Real Life Rules, by Charles Sykes;
1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agency Technology (IAT'99), Hong Kong, 14-17 December 1999;
Workshop on Software Embedded Systems Testing (WSEST), 8-9 November 1999.
July 1999
QWE'99 Display Ad
You may be interested in the
QWE'99 Display Ad
that is being run in a variety of publications.
"I was thinking that 'somebody finally did it right.'
I think CAPBAK/Web's testing web pages from within a browser is
the only valid way, and the only practical way, to test a website.
CAPBAK/Web tests a web site in exactly the way a user uses
a website; you don't have to wonder if the test is valid.
I also believe that building CAPBAK/Web using IE browser technology
will make the web testing much more reliable."
-- Ed Bennett, Internet QA
ebennett@internetqa.com
http://www.internetqa.com
June 1999
New CAPBAK/Web Display Ad.
Check out our
new display ad for
CAPBAK/Web, appearing in magazines this month!
May 1999
QW'99 Conference Successful, Record Attendance, Best Paper to Nick Borelli, Photo Album Online.
Over 865 attended QW'99 making it the best-attended Quality Week ever!
You will need to have your hostid and nodename available to obtain an access key.
An Early Release version of CAPBAK/Web Ver. 1.4 (IE) for Windows. Already made available to selected TestWorks users, CAPBAK/Web is a test enabled web browser based on IE that is now available in Early Release. You can Download a Copy of CAPBAK/Web. There is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about CAPBAK/Web that describes the new capability and indicates how it is used in conjunction with the SMARTS Test Management System. TTN-Online April 1999 . Articles include: QW'99 Update: Sponsors, Exhibit Vendors; New Report Available: Improvements to the Trace Assertion Method, submitted by Doris Burns; TestWorks Corner: Hot Items for TestWorks Users; QW'99 Conference Tour -- Technical Tracks; Year 2000 Problem: Probability of Occurrence; Testing Techniques Newsletter, Online Edition: A Review by Danny Faught; The Art of Training Testers, by Romilla Karunakaran; Proposal for Quality Grades for Software Component Source Code Packages, by Frank Ackerman On the Naming of Ships and Computers.QW'99 Conference Tour Available. A complete examination of the QW'99 Technical Program is now available. The QW'99 Conference Tour highlights the Keynotes, the Tutorials, the QuickStarts, and the multiple-technical tracks of the QW'99 Conference.
TestWorks for SGI Irix 6.2+ Downloadable. TestWorks users and potential users can download the most recent builds of TestWorks on SGI Irix 6.2+. Three possible downloads for SGI Irix 6.2+ are available:You will need to have your hostid and nodename available to obtain an access key.
- The entire TestWorks/Regression bundle including:
- CAPBAK/X Ver. 5.2 including Xvirtual
- SMARTS Ver. 6.5
- EXDIFF Ver 4.2
- These products from TestWorks/Coverage :
- The entire TestWorks/Advisor bundle including:
NOTE to existing TestWorks users: These new builds will run with your current license keys.
QWE'99 Theme Announced. The QWE'99 Call for Participation is now available. The theme chosen for QWE'99 is: Lessons Learned. Papers are due by 18 June 1999. Candidate speakers should use the Speaker Data Sheet to simplify processing of submissions.
Complete details about QWE'99, including availability of information for exhibitors, is found at the QWE'99 Conference HomePage.
TTN-Online March 1999 . Articles include: QW'99 Conference Tour: Tutorials, Keynotes, QuickStarts and BOFSs; The Competitor: A Bimonthly Newsletter on Global Software Competitiveness by Don O'Neill; QWE'99 Call for Papers; More on Cyclomatic Complexity, by Don Mills; SR's Technology Resources; Compatibility and Security of Testing Web-Based Applications
The Advisory Board for the 12th International Software Quality Week (QW'99) has announced the final QW'99 Technical Program. Keynote speakers and Panel Session Leaders include:QW'99 includes fifteen 1-day and 1/2-day Tutorials by: Beizer, Bently, Binder, Bishop-Stone, Deck, Drake, Drew, Gilb, Hanna, Kit & Buwalda, McGregor, Musa, Pol, Rosenberg, Schneidewind, Verhoef. There are over 60 speakers in 4 parallel tracks in the 5-day QW'99 Technical Program. Visit QW'99's Technical Exhibits by nearly 20 companies. You can Register Online .
- Dr. Cem Kaner
- Mr. Martin Pol
- Mr. Roger Sherman
- Dr. Boris Beizer
- Dr. Jakob Nielsen
- Mr. Brian Marick
TTN-Online February 1999 . Articles include: Quality Week '99 Technical program announced; Open Letter to Friends of the National Software Council, by John Marciniak; Y2K Solution Achieves New Spell of Sophistication, by Dave Stringer-Calvert; CAPBAK/Web Early Release on Windows 95/NT; TOM -- The Test Organisation Maturity Model, by Paul Gerrard; Three for Dinner: Served with Y2K Flavorings, by Ann Schadt; Software Glitch Plagues E-Trade; The Y1K Crisis, Canterbury, England, AD 999, by John Favaro; Automated Software Engineering Call for Papers; Special Issue on Information Systems Support for E-Commerce
Submissions for QW'99 presentations were at a record high: a total of 184 different Regular Paper, QuickStart, Tutorial and Keynote-Talk proposals arrived. We want to thank everyone in the community who submitted a proposal!The QW team is confident that the 12th Annual International Software Quality Week '99 (QW'99) will be the strongest and best conference ever.
The final program for QW'99 will be announced around the end of January. Complete details for QW'99 will be found at the conference website:
( http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99)REMINDER: It's not too early to think about your plans for the 3rd International Software Quality Week Europe '99, set for 1-5 November 1999 in Brussels, Belgium. You can get details about QWE'99 at its conference website:( http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QWE99)All questions about QW'99 or QWE'99 can be answered by sending email to qw@soft.com.
TTN-Online January 1999 . Articles include: Quality Week '99 & Quality Week Europe '99; Explaining ASQC's CSQE Program; European Testing Excellence Award Honors Martin Pol; TestWorks Product Status and Updates; BugNet Opts Out of Making Award, Citing Too-Low Quality; Some Interesting Questions, Uh, Conundrums; Response to Basis Path Item; On the Totally Misused Acronym "QA"; Testing Keystones; New Euro-Speak; Happy Programmers' Day;
Here is a summary of recent major product releases and upgrades:
- TCAT C/C++ for Windows has been upgraded to provide support for Microsoft Visual C++ Ver. 6. TCAT/C-C++ now supports both Ver. 5 and Ver. 6 (there are two separate downloads depending on which compiler you use because the installations are slightly different depending on the compiler).
- TCAT for Java has been upgraded to be better integrated with Microsoft's Visual Java J++, Ver. 6.
- The license software for all of the Windows Products (CAPBAK, SMARTS, TCAT/C-C++ and TCAT for Java) has been reorganized to make management of the keys simpler. All of the keys for any combination of TestWorks products can now reside in a single directory.
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