WSA Quality Assurance Special Interest Group
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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 Workgroup Meeting

May 14, 2008, 6:30 PM

Secrets of a Buccaneer Tester

Join us for the May QA SIG and see James Bach in action - James will present on his experiences as a self-educated professional and how his experiences have let him to develop a methodology for software testing called Rapid Software Testing. James will share some of the background on how he invented it and will also be giving away a preview copy of his book about self-education titled "How I Learn Stuff: Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar."

Please see the Calendar for more information.

Please contact Bev Peterson to Register for this event.


The past QA Sig meeting featured Joy Shafer of Microsoft who presented an experience report called Distributed Agile. See our Past Meetings page for more detail and view Joy's slides.


SASQAG: The Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group features monthly meetings, job board, and quality assurance training classes. Sasqag meets on the third Thursday of every month. http://www.sasqag.org


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.


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