As part of our continuing historic digitization project, we have completed scanning hard-copy versions of SR's original Testing Techniques Newsletter dating from 1978.
A summary of this material is found here:
SR/TestWorks/QualityWeek/eValid -- Outgoing Communication Summary
The material here includes digitization of all TTN, QTN, and QMM issues.
After January 1994 all of the SR communications were 100% online.
Beginning in the 1970's staff members at Software Research, Inc., collected material on commercially available software tools.
This was done at first for research purposes, but soon the need for wider dispersal of this kind of information was noted in the industry.
The SEAT Index that resulted from the research resulted in a report that was sold to the general public:
SR SEAT Index 628 Pages September 1982
This is the 6th revision of the document. The ongoing research project ran for nearly three years, and the hard-copy material filled an entire 5-drawer file cabinet.
That material was discarded long ago, and a sole copy of the printed SEAT Index was the basis for the archival scan above.
In parallel, an NBS effort lead by Mr. Raymond C. Houghton, accumulated [primarily for US Government use] this report: NBS Special Publication 500-88, Software Development Tools.
In addition, there were accumulations of software tool descriptions and documentation by TRW Systems (a government contractor) and by D. J. Reifer Associates (a private consultancy), among others.
Given that nearly four decades of have transpired since the SEAT Index was first created, it is interesting to compare the "automated tools" situation then with today.
Here are some recent selected forum posts from our eValid forum:
Record saving an image of a website answer -- This may work a lot better than using an "an imaged GIF".
