As part of our continuing historic digitization activity, we have completed locating soft-copy or scanning hard-copy versions of SR's original Software TestWorks™ User Manuals.
A summary of this material is found here:
Software TestWorks™ -- UNIX/WINDOWS Product Manuals Archive
The material here includes digitization of all Windows and Unix product manuals produced between 1996 and 1999.
Here are some recent selected forum posts from our eValid forum:
Validating a Saved Window or Window-Face -- CommentsAs 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".As part of our continuing effort to digitize all SR/TestWorks/eValid/QualityWeek and QualityWeek Europe material, we have recently completed finding and scanning all of the old Testing Techniques Newsletter (TTN)...
TTN Consolidated Issue (1977-1994) [281 pages, 186 MB]
Software Quality researchers and practitioners may be interested in the material because it captures very early SR activities in the software quality area -- when the state of technology was very young and rather immature.
Note that the Winter 1987/1988 issue advertised the very first Quality Week Conference (May 1988, San Francisco), after which the field of "Software Testing and Quality Assurance" became rather more organized.
Here are some recent selected forum posts from our eValid forum:
How does eValid handle website with Secure Session IDs -- Explanation of "secure zone" switches.
Record saving an image of a website answer -- Test passes if the screens match.
