Mission

The QA SIG seeks to engage members of the high-tech community in discussions on the evolving challenges of software quality assurance and look at ways to advance the leading methodologies and best practices.

Challenges Ahead:

As software development continues to evolve, the ways in which quality assurance and software testing is approached must keep pace or become obsolete.

Today, consumers demand software that is available, reliable and secure. Speed to market is no longer the pressing issue for development organizations. As the marketplace for software matures, the techniques we use for developing and testing software must mature as well.

It is time for us to step back and re-evaluate the testing processes we are employing and why we are using them.

We hope to explore these and many other questions facing the software development, quality assurance and software testing industries in upcoming QA SIG meetings and invite you to take part in the dialog.

Next QA SIG Meeting

March 10, 2010, 6:30 PM

Reducing Test Case Bloat

Join us on Wednesday, March 10th to hear a Lanette Creamer from Adobe present a talk on her newly updated technical paper from PNSQC 2009, Reducing Test Case Bloat. This paper presentation is about the subjective and difficult part of testing which has no provable mathematical correct answer. It is about risk management, test planning, cost, value, and being thoughtful about which tests to run in the context of your specific project.

See the Calendar to learn more and contact Shelly Dillon to Register for this event. We hope to see you!

January QA SIG

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the QA SIG this week - it was packed house and great to hear from Detective Brian Stampfl - checkout the Past Meetings page to learn more about his presentation.

Interested in becoming a contributing member of the QA Sig? Check out the Volunteer page to learn more and sign up.

Check out the Tester's Toolkit to see some valuable links for quality assurance and software testing professionals.