Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some recent selected forum posts from our eValid forum:

Using the eValid select image or select text commands -- Digging into the DOM structure for fun and profit!

How eValid deals with Regular Expression and when to use -- RE's can make your test scripts powerful by generalizing them.

Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some recent selected forum posts from our eValid forum:

How to consolidate all my loadtest results -- Step-by-step process to aggregate data.

Using the eValid select image or select text commands -- Validating the right text fragment is often critical!

QW/QWE Digitization

Software Quality researchers and practitioners may be interested to know that we have recently completed putting all the material from the early and late QualityWeek/QualityWeek Europe conferences online.   Previously only the last four years of events (1999-2002) were available online.

Here is the link:

QW/QWE Consolidated Conference Material Inventory

As you may note there are still "some missing pieces" but we believe the material is 99% complete.   That page will point to updates and other parts as they are completed.  

Note: The material pointed to in this inventory total some ~8.7 GB of data in ~130+ individual files, mostly PDFs, all of which are fully searchable documents.

Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some recent selected forum posts from our eValid forum:

Extracting strings from the DOM with eValid -- Yanking strings from the front (visible part) of a page.

Does eValid have a step function for use in load generation -- The step function can generated very high instantaneous loading.

QW/QWE Technical Content and Program Committee Summaries

The Quality Week and Quality Week/Europe (QW/QWE) Conferences served many thousands of attendees, and provided speaking opportunities for a large number of technical professionals.

Here is the complete QW/QWE Author/Title/Affiliation Index: 1988 — 2002 .

This table can be shown sorted by Author, by Company, by Title, by Date or by clicking on the column title, which also shows the direction of the sorted display.

The papers were all vetted by the QW/QWE Program Committee (Advisory Board).

Here is the complete list of QW/QWE Program Committee Members: 1988 — 2002

Remembering Boris Beizer

It is a sad time in the software testing and quality assurance community: we have lost one of the true icons and original thinkers of the entire field. 

Dr. Boris Beizer passed away on 7 October 2018 at the age of 84. 

Boris's two major works, Software Testing Techniques and System Software Testing and Quality Assurance, were the technical underpinning of the majority of the ideas and developments in the software testing and QA field, starting in the early 1980's and continuing to the present. The ideas he emphasized in both books and in his consulting and speaking activities included (but were hardly limited to) structural analysis of software to reveal its properties, automatic analysis of program behavior, and systematic application of rigorous methods of software inspection and dynamic testing. Almost every type of automated program analysis related to testing was foretold in his work. 

Boris was an extraordinarily active participant in the testing community. He attended and spoke frequently at many software testing oriented events, and at conferences often was seen engaged in intense debate with attendees over the pros and cons of a wide range of relevant technologies. His observations and interplay were always direct, very often humorous, never evil-minded, and genuinely respectful. 

We first met Boris in ~1989 and he became a regular participant at the Quality Week and Quality Week Europe (QW/QWE) conferences. After he gave a half-day tutorial at QW/1991 he recommended that we use a Program Committee to shape future QW/QWE technical programs. We followed his advice, beginning with QW/1992, with Boris as one of the charter members of the QW/QWE Program Committee. He served on that committee all the way through QW/2002. His reviews and critiques of proposed papers and presentations were regularly merciless and always very much on point. He kept the QW/QWE programs honest and lively! For him it was always about Quality with a capital Q!

His energy, style, directness, honesty, and dedication will be missed by us all.

-- Edward Miller, Rita Bral

"TestWorks Conf" Not Authorized

We have become aware that an organization in Amsterdam, Netherlands, has been offering a technical conference entitled "TestWorks Conf".

While we wish them the best of luck in their endeavor we wish to point out that we did not authorize them to use of the TestWorks™ name. 

In addition, at attempt to reach the organizers in order to establish authorized use of our trademark was rejected.

Quality Week Proceedings Available

The complete conference proceedings for the QualityWeek and QualityWeek/Europe conferences - from 1998 to 2002 - are now available for download. 

The files below are the complete contents of the Conference CDs unified into a single PDF document.

Caution: The PDF are big files, this may take some time to download.

1999	QW1999CD.pdf -- 32 MB -- [1,816 pages] QWE1998CD.pdf -- 20 MB -- [1,251 pages]
2000	QW2000CD.pdf -- 82 MB -- [1,712 pages] QWE2000CD.pdf -- 147 MB -- [1,712 pages]
2001	QW2001CD.pdf -- 72 MB -- [2,070 pages]
2002	QWE2002CD.pdf -- 100 MB -- [1,300 pages] QW2002CD.pdf -- 65 MB -- [1,783 pages]

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that may be of interest to WQN readers:

• 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2011), 21-25 March 2011, Berlin, Germany, EU
• 4th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing [Co-located with ICST 2011], Berlin, Germany, EU
• Mutation 2011: 6th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis [Co-located with ICST 2011], Berlin, Germany, EU
• 1st International Workshop on Testing and Debugging (TeBug2011) [Co-located with ICST 2011], Berlin, Germany, EU
• 12th IEEE Latin American Test Workshop -- LATW 2011) 27-30 March 2011, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil.

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that may be of interest to WQN readers:

• Special Issue on Advances in Software Testing, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management
• ISEC 2011: 4th India Software Engineering Conference, 23-27 February 2011, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
  
• Special Issue on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems, Submission Due 07 March 2011.

Community events like these deserve very careful consideration!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that may be of interest to WQN readers:

• Special Issue on Advances in Software Testing, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management
• ISCE 2011: 4th India Software Engineering Conference, 23-27 February 2011, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
• 7th Workshop on Model-Based Testing 2-3 April 2011, Saarbruken, Germany, EU
• 8th International Conference on Information Technology New Generations: ITNG 2011 - Software Testing, 11-13 April 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada,USA

Community events like these deserve very careful consideration!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that may be of interest to WQN readers:

• 2nd International Workshop on the Quality of Service-Oriented Software Systems (QUASOSS'10), 4 October, 2010, Oslo, Norway
• 5th International Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV'10), 6-7 October 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• 8th CREST Open Workshop: Advanced Mootation* Testing 27 October 2010, University College, London, England (* "Mootation Testing" is a second order mutant of "Mutation Testing")
• 2nd International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (Part of ISSRE 2010), 1 November 2010, San Jose, California, USA.
• 22nd IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS), 8-10 November 2010, Natal, Brazil.
• 2010 Workshop on Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Analysis in High-Performance Computing (VVUHPC 2010), 14 November 2010, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• The Future of Software Engineering Symposium 22-23 November 2010, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.

Community events like these deserve very careful consideration!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that may be of interest to WQN readers:

• 10th International Conference on Web Engineering, 5-9 July 2010, Vienna, Austria, EU.
• 1st International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering (QWE 2010) , 5-9 July 2010, Vienna, Austria, EU.
• 1st Workshop on Engineering SOA and the Web (ESW'10), 6-9 July 2010, Vienna, Austria, EU.
• 1st International Workshop on Software Test Output Validation (STOV 2010), 12 July 2010, Torino, Italy.
• 10th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2010), 14-15 July 2010, Zxhangjiajie, China.
• International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2010), 12-16 July 2010, Trento, Italy, EU.

These events all deserve careful consideration, so please take a look at them!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that could be of interest to WQN readers:

• 6th TAROT Summer School on Software Testing (TAROT 2010), 21-25 June 2010, Castel Laubegg, Graz, Austria, EU.
• 1st ECOOP Workshop on Testing Object-Oriented Systems, 21 June 2010, Maribor, Slovenia.

These events deserve careful consideration, so please take a look at them!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that could be of interest to WQN readers:

• 5th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis, 6 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.

• 5th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, 3-4 May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
• 1st Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering (at ICSE 2010), (Twitter Site) 4 May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.

• 6th TAROT Summer School on Software Testing (TAROT 2010), 21-25 June 2010, Castel Laubegg, Graz, Austria, EU.
• 1st ECOOP Workshop on Testing Object-Oriented Systems, 21-22 June 2010, Maribor, Slovenia.

These events all deserve careful consideration, so please take a look at them!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that could be of interest to WQN readers:

• 3rd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2010) 6-10 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.
• 2nd International Workshop on Testing Software in the Cloud (STITC 2010) (part of ICST2010) 10 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.
• 5th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, 3-4 May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Second Model-Based Verification and Validation Workshop (MVV2010), 9-11 June 2010, Singapore.
• 1st International Workshop on Model Inference In Testing (MIIT 2010) 12-17 July 2010, Trento, Italy, EU.
• 8th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2010), 21-24 September 2010, Singapore.

These events all deserve careful consideration, so please take a look at them!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that could be of interest to WQN readers:

• 4th International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability (SQM 2010), 15-18 March 2010, Madrid, Spain, EU.
• 6th Workshop on Model-Based Testing, 21 March 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, EU.
• 7th Workshop on System Testing and Validation (STV10), 22-26 March 2010, Oxford, England, EU.
• Second Software Testing Benchmark Workshop part of ICST2010, 10 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.
• 1st Workshop on Quality of Model Based Testing, part of ICST2010, 10 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.
• 2nd Workshop on Constraints in Software Testing, Verification and Analysis, 10 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are links to some technical meetings that could be of general interest to WQN readers:

• Workshop on Teaching Software Testing (WTST9) 30 January -- 1 February 2010, Melbourne, Florida, USA.
• IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Techniques, Verification and Validation, 6-9 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.
• 2nd International Workshop on Testing Techniques and Experimentation Benchmarks for Event-Driven Software (TESTBEDS 2010), 6 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.
• 5th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis (Mutation 2010), 6 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.
• International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010), 5-9 July 2010, Vienna, Austria, EU.
• International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2010), 12-16 July 2010, Trento, Italy, EU.

These events all deserve careful consideration!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are some pointers to interesting technical conferences that could be of interest:

• Second Workshop on Empirical Assessment in Software Architecture (EASA09) 14 September 2009, Cambridge, UK.
• Software Engineering 2010, 22-26 February 2010, Paderborn, Germany, EU.
• 7th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2009), 13-16 October 2009, Macao SAR, China
• Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems and Applications (VTSA09), University of Luxemburg, 12-16 October 2009, Nancy, France
• Open Source Monitoring Conference, 28-29 October 2009, Nuremberg, Germany, EU.
• 3rd IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2010), 6-9 April 2010, Paris, France, EU.

These events all deserve careful consideration, so please take a look at them!

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Technical Community Events

Here are pointers to interesting recent and upcoming technical conferences that should be of interest:

• Information and Software Technology Special Issue on Mutation Testing, papers due 30 October 2009.
• AQuSerM: Advances in Quality of Service Management, EDOC 2009 Workshop, 31 August - 4 September 2009, Aukland, New Zealand.
• International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis: ISSTA 2009, 19-23 July 2009, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification & Validation (ICST 2010), 6-9 April, 2010, Paris, France, EU.
• 5th European Symposium on Verification and Validation of Software Systems (VVSS 2009), 11 June 2009, Eindhoven, Netherlands, EU.

These events deserve careful consideration, so please take a look at each of them!