ISO 9000-3 Digest Wednesday, 18 December 1996 Volume 01 : Number 028
In this issue:
FW: January 1997 Meeting Announcement
FW: ANNOUNCEMENT: The First Annual Software Quality Institute (SQI) Symposium
BOUNCE iso9000-3@quality.org: Non-member submission from ["Schneider, Henry" ] (fwd)
BOUNCE iso9000-3@quality.org: Non-member submission from ["Schneider, Henry" ] (fwd)
Thanks for a good year!
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From: "Schneider, Henry"
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:35:57 -0600
Subject: FW: January 1997 Meeting Announcement
>=========================================
>SSQ WEST HOUSTON CHAPTER
>Presents:
>
>A State of the Union Report on Software Quality: Status, Impact and the
>Prospects for Improvement
>Today, the understanding of what constitutes quality in software is shallow.
>A better future would be one in which users/customers know how to identify,
>request, purchase, and use high quality software, as well as
>developers/producers knowing how to create, deliver, and sustain high quality
>software. Based on his experience with coaching software quality improvement
>programs in high technology companies, Herb Krasner will discuss the issues
>involved in (re)defining the organizational processes and practices necessary
>to achieve higher levels of software quality and productivity.
>
>Herb Krasner is a management consultant specializing in continuous software
>quality and process improvement. Herb is the founder of the Austin Software
>Process Improvement Network and Chairman of the University of Texas Software
>Quality Institute.
>Speaker: Herb Krasner, President, Krasner Consulting
>
>
>Sponsored By:
>SOCIETY FOR SOFTWARE QUALITY
>WEST HOUSTON CHAPTER
>
>Date: Wednesday 8 January 1997
>Registration: 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
>Business Meeting: 11:45 AM - Noon
>Presentation: Noon - 1:00 PM
>Place: BMC Software
> 2101 City West Boulevard
> Houston, Texas
>
>Fee: Members FREE
> Non-members $5 (First visit FREE)
>
>1997 CHAPTER OFFICERS: CORPORATE SPONSORS:
>President: Jennifer Young ADAC HCIS
>Vice President: Henry Schneider FutureSoft
>Secretary: Dee Ullrich GeoQuest
>Treasurer: Judy Macaluso
>
>General Information: Jennifer Young 789-8880
>Membership Information: Henry Schneider 496-9400
>http://www.ssq.org
>
>Quality thought for the month:
>Quality, like anything else worth doing, doesn't just happen. It's not like
>tomorrow; you can't just wait and it will come to you. - H. James Harrington
>
>
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From: "Schneider, Henry"
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:32:09 -0600
Subject: FW: ANNOUNCEMENT: The First Annual Software Quality Institute (SQI) Symposium
>=======================================================
> Program Announcement
> The First Annual Software Quality Institute (SQI) Symposium
> Theme: Software Reliability Engineering
>
> April 1, 1997
> Commons Auditorium, Pickle Research Campus,
> The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
>
>Doing the right things to engineer highly reliable software requires wisdom
>to be exhibited in the day to day practices of producing and evolving
>software products and systems. This symposium brings together the world's
>great minds to share and discuss approaches, challenges, experiences, lessons
>learned, new technology, and hot issues that impact the state-of-practice.
>We hope that you will join us in Austin to participate in, and benefit from,
>this exciting dialogue.
>
>Mark your calendar, plan to attend, and then contact the SQI for
>registration information (see below). You are invited to come and participate
>in the set of exciting technical sessions in the program. This symposium has
>been designed for: software engineers, managers, systems analysts, software
>quality engineers and any other software and/or quality professional
>interested in hearing about the latest information in the field of software
>reliability
>engineering.
>
>The Software Quality Institute was founded in 1993 as a multi-disciplinary
>partnership between The University of Texas at Austin and industrial software
>organizations. Its mission is to inform and educate software producers and
>users about issues vital to the production and applications of high quality
>software. This 1997 symposium initiates the series in order to bring together
>leading practitioners and researchers to focus on key issues of software
>reliability engineering.
>
>Schedule
>
>7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Registration and Coffee
>
>8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
> Al Dale, Executive Director, Software Quality Institute
>
>8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Software-Reliability-Engineered Testing
> John Musa
>
>Software-reliability-engineered testing helps solve the problem of getting
>software to market faster to meet international competition while ensuring
>necessary reliability. It accomplishes this by employing reliability
>objectives and by characterizing system use with operational profiles to
>guide you in doing just enough testing in just the right places. This talk
>will give you an overview of this highly beneficial practice, which is
>rapidly becoming a standard.
>
>Session Moderator: Herb Krasner, Chairman, Software Quality
> Institute, and President, Krasner Consulting
>
>9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break
>
>10:00 am. - 11:00 a.m. The Software Accreditation Story
> Charles Matthews, Airborne/Avionics Software Quality
> Assurance, The Boeing Company
>
>The 777 program set the goal of having a service-ready airplane at the end of
>the most ambitious flight test program in history. To
>support this, The Boeing Company had to rethink the traditional processes for
>building and producing airplanes. The technical
>challenges in implementing new software systems to support manufacturing,
>inspection and testing required that the Quality
>Assurance organization be involved in setting standards for evaluation of the
>adequacy of software development,
>implementation, and maintenance. At the same time, federal regulatory
>agencies required that Boeing be able to show that
>manufacturing processes were under control. The 777 Software Quality
>Assurance group addressed these challenges by adapting and
>improving a software system accreditation process designed to measure
>information systems. The 777 program was successful in
>creating awareness of the need to integrate sound software engineering
>practices into manufacturing process definition and in
>establishing traceability, reliability, and software configuration management
>in factory floor processes.
>
>Session Moderator: Dave Rentschler, SEPG Leader, Tandem Computers
>
>11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Controlling the Quality of the Onboard
>Shuttle Software
> Kyle Rone, President, Technical Education and Management
> Services, Inc., and Director, Quality Systems Institute,
> University of Houston - Clear Lake
>
>This talk will discuss the measurement, modeling, forecasting and planning
>required to successfully complete a large, complex software project. It will
>discuss initiating, stabilizing and improving processes during the
>development and operations phases. The minimum set of control elements and
>balancing techniques to arrive at the desired product quality will be
>discussed.
>
>Session Moderator: Allen Johnson, President and CEO, Rainbow
>Analysis Systems Group, Inc.
>
>12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
>
>1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. The Role of Formal Methods in Reliability Engineering
>for Real - Time and Embedded Systems
> Al Mok, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, The
> University of Texas at Austin
>
>Researchers have been working on formal methods for reliable software
>development for more than a decade. Yet the transition of
>formal methods to industry has been painfully slow in the United States. A
>critical roadblock to progress is a fundamental mismatch in
>the software development environment as envisioned by researchers and by
>industrial developers. As long as it takes a Ph.D. in computer science to
>apply formal methods, the advanced technology developed by researchers will
>not be adopted by management who regard the advanced training as incompatible
>with current and foreseeable manpower development. Likewise, as long as it
>takes a complete reengineering of existing systems to apply formal methods,
>industry is unlikely to adopt any formal development strategy which carries
>with it significant risk in disrupting ongoing operations of legacy software.
>What is needed is a transition strategy, one that can incrementally introduce
>advanced techniques in the evolution of existing systems, with concomitant
>upgrade in manpower training. In this lecture, we shall discuss an approach
>to transition for real-time and embedded systems, where the stakes are
>especially high since computers are used in time-critical and safety-critical
>environments.
>
>Session Moderator: Jorge Boria, Senior Engineer, Schlumberger Austin Product
>Center
>
>2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break
>
>3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Intelligent Components
> Don Batory, Associate Professor, Department of Computer
> Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
>
>The production of rote software will eventually be the responsibility of
>software generators. Generators will enable high-performance, customized
>software systems and subsystems to be assembled quickly and cheaply from
>component libraries. These components will be intelligent: they will
>encapsulate domain-specific knowledge (e.g., best practice approaches) so
>that their instances can automatically customize and optimize themselves to
>the system in which they are being used. In this presentation, we explore the
>topics intelligent components and software generation as they pertain to the
>issues of software reliability and quality.
>
>Session Moderator: Geree Streun, Principal, Technology and Process
>Consulting
>
>4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Closing Panel and Wrap-up
>
>Topic: What We Heard and Didn't Hear About Software Reliability
> Engineering at this Symposium
> Panelists: Herb Krasner, Chuck Matthews, Allen Johnson, Jorge
> Boria, and Geree Streun
>
>LOCATION
>
>The SQI Symposium will be held in the Commons Building at the UT Pickle
>Research Campus in Northwest Austin. PRC is located off
>Braker Lane between MoPac and Burnet Road.
>
>REGISTRATION
>
>For information about registration or other matters, please contact:
>
>Software Quality Institute
>The University of Texas at Austin
>PRC MER Mail Code R9800
>Austin, TX 78712-1080
>Telephone: (512) 471-4922 or (800) 687-8012
>Fax: (512) 471-4824
>email: leti@sqi.utexas.edu
>Web: http://www.utexas.edu/coe/sqi
>
>
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From: "Bill Casti, CQA (Moderator)"
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:27:07 -0500 (EST)
Subject: BOUNCE iso9000-3@quality.org: Non-member submission from ["Schneider, Henry" ] (fwd)
NOTE: Respond *both* to the poster's address (see below) and to the list's
posting address, OR as directed in the posting, but definitely NOT to me.
Thanks.
Bill
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:31:52 -0500
From: "Schneider, Henry"
To: "'iso9000-3@quality.org'"
Subject: FW: January 1997 Meeting Announcement
>=========================================
>SSQ WEST HOUSTON CHAPTER
>Presents:
>
>A State of the Union Report on Software Quality: Status, Impact and the
>Prospects for Improvement
>Today, the understanding of what constitutes quality in software is shallow.
>A better future would be one in which users/customers know how to identify,
>request, purchase, and use high quality software, as well as
>developers/producers knowing how to create, deliver, and sustain high quality
>software. Based on his experience with coaching software quality improvement
>programs in high technology companies, Herb Krasner will discuss the issues
>involved in (re)defining the organizational processes and practices necessary
>to achieve higher levels of software quality and productivity.
>
>Herb Krasner is a management consultant specializing in continuous software
>quality and process improvement. Herb is the founder of the Austin Software
>Process Improvement Network and Chairman of the University of Texas Software
>Quality Institute.
>Speaker: Herb Krasner, President, Krasner Consulting
>
>
>Sponsored By:
>SOCIETY FOR SOFTWARE QUALITY
>WEST HOUSTON CHAPTER
>
>Date: Wednesday 8 January 1997
>Registration: 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
>Business Meeting: 11:45 AM - Noon
>Presentation: Noon - 1:00 PM
>Place: BMC Software
> 2101 City West Boulevard
> Houston, Texas
>
>Fee: Members FREE
> Non-members $5 (First visit FREE)
>
>1997 CHAPTER OFFICERS: CORPORATE SPONSORS:
>President: Jennifer Young ADAC HCIS
>Vice President: Henry Schneider FutureSoft
>Secretary: Dee Ullrich GeoQuest
>Treasurer: Judy Macaluso
>
>General Information: Jennifer Young 789-8880
>Membership Information: Henry Schneider 496-9400
>http://www.ssq.org
>
>Quality thought for the month:
>Quality, like anything else worth doing, doesn't just happen. It's not like
>tomorrow; you can't just wait and it will come to you. - H. James Harrington
>
>
------------------------------
From: "Bill Casti, CQA (Moderator)"
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:27:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: BOUNCE iso9000-3@quality.org: Non-member submission from ["Schneider, Henry" ] (fwd)
NOTE: Respond *both* to the poster's address (see below) and to the list's
posting address, OR as directed in the posting, but definitely NOT to me.
Thanks.
Bill
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:33:34 -0500
From: "Schneider, Henry"
To: "'iso9000-3@quality.org'"
Subject: FW: ANNOUNCEMENT: The First Annual Software Quality Institute (SQI) Symposium
>=======================================================
> Program Announcement
> The First Annual Software Quality Institute (SQI) Symposium
> Theme: Software Reliability Engineering
>
> April 1, 1997
> Commons Auditorium, Pickle Research Campus,
> The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
>
>Doing the right things to engineer highly reliable software requires wisdom
>to be exhibited in the day to day practices of producing and evolving
>software products and systems. This symposium brings together the world's
>great minds to share and discuss approaches, challenges, experiences, lessons
>learned, new technology, and hot issues that impact the state-of-practice.
>We hope that you will join us in Austin to participate in, and benefit from,
>this exciting dialogue.
>
>Mark your calendar, plan to attend, and then contact the SQI for
>registration information (see below). You are invited to come and participate
>in the set of exciting technical sessions in the program. This symposium has
>been designed for: software engineers, managers, systems analysts, software
>quality engineers and any other software and/or quality professional
>interested in hearing about the latest information in the field of software
>reliability
>engineering.
>
>The Software Quality Institute was founded in 1993 as a multi-disciplinary
>partnership between The University of Texas at Austin and industrial software
>organizations. Its mission is to inform and educate software producers and
>users about issues vital to the production and applications of high quality
>software. This 1997 symposium initiates the series in order to bring together
>leading practitioners and researchers to focus on key issues of software
>reliability engineering.
>
>Schedule
>
>7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Registration and Coffee
>
>8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
> Al Dale, Executive Director, Software Quality Institute
>
>8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Software-Reliability-Engineered Testing
> John Musa
>
>Software-reliability-engineered testing helps solve the problem of getting
>software to market faster to meet international competition while ensuring
>necessary reliability. It accomplishes this by employing reliability
>objectives and by characterizing system use with operational profiles to
>guide you in doing just enough testing in just the right places. This talk
>will give you an overview of this highly beneficial practice, which is
>rapidly becoming a standard.
>
>Session Moderator: Herb Krasner, Chairman, Software Quality
> Institute, and President, Krasner Consulting
>
>9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break
>
>10:00 am. - 11:00 a.m. The Software Accreditation Story
> Charles Matthews, Airborne/Avionics Software Quality
> Assurance, The Boeing Company
>
>The 777 program set the goal of having a service-ready airplane at the end of
>the most ambitious flight test program in history. To
>support this, The Boeing Company had to rethink the traditional processes for
>building and producing airplanes. The technical
>challenges in implementing new software systems to support manufacturing,
>inspection and testing required that the Quality
>Assurance organization be involved in setting standards for evaluation of the
>adequacy of software development,
>implementation, and maintenance. At the same time, federal regulatory
>agencies required that Boeing be able to show that
>manufacturing processes were under control. The 777 Software Quality
>Assurance group addressed these challenges by adapting and
>improving a software system accreditation process designed to measure
>information systems. The 777 program was successful in
>creating awareness of the need to integrate sound software engineering
>practices into manufacturing process definition and in
>establishing traceability, reliability, and software configuration management
>in factory floor processes.
>
>Session Moderator: Dave Rentschler, SEPG Leader, Tandem Computers
>
>11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Controlling the Quality of the Onboard
>Shuttle Software
> Kyle Rone, President, Technical Education and Management
> Services, Inc., and Director, Quality Systems Institute,
> University of Houston - Clear Lake
>
>This talk will discuss the measurement, modeling, forecasting and planning
>required to successfully complete a large, complex software project. It will
>discuss initiating, stabilizing and improving processes during the
>development and operations phases. The minimum set of control elements and
>balancing techniques to arrive at the desired product quality will be
>discussed.
>
>Session Moderator: Allen Johnson, President and CEO, Rainbow
>Analysis Systems Group, Inc.
>
>12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
>
>1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. The Role of Formal Methods in Reliability Engineering
>for Real - Time and Embedded Systems
> Al Mok, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, The
> University of Texas at Austin
>
>Researchers have been working on formal methods for reliable software
>development for more than a decade. Yet the transition of
>formal methods to industry has been painfully slow in the United States. A
>critical roadblock to progress is a fundamental mismatch in
>the software development environment as envisioned by researchers and by
>industrial developers. As long as it takes a Ph.D. in computer science to
>apply formal methods, the advanced technology developed by researchers will
>not be adopted by management who regard the advanced training as incompatible
>with current and foreseeable manpower development. Likewise, as long as it
>takes a complete reengineering of existing systems to apply formal methods,
>industry is unlikely to adopt any formal development strategy which carries
>with it significant risk in disrupting ongoing operations of legacy software.
>What is needed is a transition strategy, one that can incrementally introduce
>advanced techniques in the evolution of existing systems, with concomitant
>upgrade in manpower training. In this lecture, we shall discuss an approach
>to transition for real-time and embedded systems, where the stakes are
>especially high since computers are used in time-critical and safety-critical
>environments.
>
>Session Moderator: Jorge Boria, Senior Engineer, Schlumberger Austin Product
>Center
>
>2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break
>
>3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Intelligent Components
> Don Batory, Associate Professor, Department of Computer
> Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
>
>The production of rote software will eventually be the responsibility of
>software generators. Generators will enable high-performance, customized
>software systems and subsystems to be assembled quickly and cheaply from
>component libraries. These components will be intelligent: they will
>encapsulate domain-specific knowledge (e.g., best practice approaches) so
>that their instances can automatically customize and optimize themselves to
>the system in which they are being used. In this presentation, we explore the
>topics intelligent components and software generation as they pertain to the
>issues of software reliability and quality.
>
>Session Moderator: Geree Streun, Principal, Technology and Process
>Consulting
>
>4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Closing Panel and Wrap-up
>
>Topic: What We Heard and Didn't Hear About Software Reliability
> Engineering at this Symposium
> Panelists: Herb Krasner, Chuck Matthews, Allen Johnson, Jorge
> Boria, and Geree Streun
>
>LOCATION
>
>The SQI Symposium will be held in the Commons Building at the UT Pickle
>Research Campus in Northwest Austin. PRC is located off
>Braker Lane between MoPac and Burnet Road.
>
>REGISTRATION
>
>For information about registration or other matters, please contact:
>
>Software Quality Institute
>The University of Texas at Austin
>PRC MER Mail Code R9800
>Austin, TX 78712-1080
>Telephone: (512) 471-4922 or (800) 687-8012
>Fax: (512) 471-4824
>email: leti@sqi.utexas.edu
>Web: http://www.utexas.edu/coe/sqi
>
>
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From: "Bill Casti, CQA (Moderator)"
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:35:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Thanks for a good year!
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With thanks for your support and best wishes to you and yours
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at
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