American Society for Quality
Member services, publications, quality related resources, certification,
education and conferences and a chat forum. Also, promotes Software Quality Professional magazine
Boston SPIN (Software Process
Improvement Network)
Boston area SPIN chapter.
Institute of Electrical AND Electronics
Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
All about IEEE. Link to IEEE
standards documentation.
International Institute for Software
Testing
Promotes disciplined software practices by sponsoring conferences, training and
a journal on software testing.
International Standards Organization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide
federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries, one from each
country.
ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO
is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the
world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and
services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual,
scientific, technological and economic activity. ISO's work results in
international agreements which are published as International Standards.
The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence provide a systems
perspective for understanding performance management. They reflect validated,
leading-edge management practices against which an organization can measure
itself. With their acceptance nationally and internationally as the model for
performance excellence, the Criteria represent a common language for
communication among organizations for sharing best practices. The Criteria are
also the basis for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award process.
Project
Management Institute
Since its founding in 1969, Project Management Institute
(PMIŽ) has grown to be the organization of choice for project management
professionalism. With over 55,000 members worldwide, PMIŽ is the leading
nonprofit professional association in the area of Project Management. PMI
establishes Project Management standards, provides seminars, educational
programs and professional certification that more and more organizations desire
for their project leaders.
Quality Assurance Institute
Promotes software quality, implements Certified Quality Assurance (CQA) and
Certified Software Testing Engineer (CSTE) certification. QAI also offers
testing conferences, usually in the fall in Orlando.
Quality Assurance Networking
Association, Hudson Valley New York
A local chapter of the QAI Federation, this organization promotes software
quality assurance such as quality principles, tools, measurement, process
improvement, etc., through networking. They meet every other month and sponsor
QAI certification testing and training.
Quality Management Association of New
York
The Quality Management Association of New York (QMA-NY) is a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to promote and foster quality in its members and sponsor
organization. QMA-NY accomplishes this by offering public forums and
other activities that provide educational opportunities.
Society for Software Quality (SSQ)
Promotes increased knowledge and interest in the technology associated with the
development and maintenance of quality software.
Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
SEI is the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Institute is primarily funded by Department of
Defense grants to do projects such as develop the SEI Software Engineering
Assessment Process.
Process is defined, in the most general sense, as a set of actions, tasks, and
procedures that when performed or executed obtain a specific goal or objective.
More specifically, a software process is a process to develop, maintain,
support, or enhance software. An example of a software process is a software
development process. A software process assessment is an appraisal or review of
an organization's software process.
The SEI has developed and is currently refining a methodology for assessing a
software process. The main objectives of assessments are to understand the
state of practice of the software process in an organization, to identify key
areas for improvement, and to initiate actions that facilitate those
improvements. The purpose of this section is to give a descriptive overview of
SEI-assisted software process assessments. SEI-assisted assessments are those
in which the SEI provides consulting and is directly involved with an
organization in performing the assessment.
The SEI assessment process assesses the maturity of the software process used
to develop software systems The SEI assessment methodology uses a software
process maturity framework and a maturity questionnaire.
A software process maturity framework was developed by the SEI for two
purposes: to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with a means of
characterizing the software process, and to help determine and improve the
capabilities of software development organizations. The maturity framework
provides the basis for the assessment. It helps identify the state of an
organization's software process, helps provide a vision of the desired process,
and serves as a mechanism for establishing priorities for software process
improvement.
Software Quality Engineering
Sponsored by Software Quality Engineering (SQE). This site acts as a portal for
those interested in software testing allowing interested parties to exchange
information software testing.
StickyMinds.com
Excellent reference site that advertises itself as 'an online resource for
building better software'. Lots of articles relating to testing and quality.
Also, links to other resources and archived articles. This is a STQE
publication.
Compuware Software and Services
Provides a wide range of quality related development and software testing
products including QACenter, QADirector, QALoad, Abend-Aid, Xpediter, Pathvu,
NuMega products, EcoSystems, and others as well as provides training and
consulting services.
McCabe and Associates
Core Metrics; Visual Quality ToolSet; Visual Testing ToolSet; Visual
Reengineering ToolSet
Mercury Interactive
Tools include WinRunner, XRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director.
Radview, Inc.
Provider of solutions for verifying the performance and scalability of
e-business systems. Tools include Webload and Webload Resource Manager.
Rational Software
Creators of tools such as TestMate, Ada Analyzer and other related tools. They
also have acquired and support many other products originally from other
vendors. These acquisitions include SQA (SQA Robot, SQA Manager, SQA LoadTest,
and SQA Process); Performance Awareness products (preVue-C/S, preVue-Web,
preVue-X, pre-Vue-ASCII, etc.); and Pure/Atria (PureCoverage, PureLink, Purify,
Pure NT, etc.). Rational also bought Visual Test from Microsoft.
Segue Software, Inc.
Tools include SilkTest, SilkPerformer, SilkPilot, SilkRadar, and eCScale. Their
focus is on e-business reliability solutions. They also provide e-business
consulting services.
The Telelogic DOORS(R) Enterprise Requirements Suite
(DOORS/ERS) is the only comprehensive requirements management suite to address
the specific needs of managers, developers and end-users throughout the
lifecycle. Unlike other requirements solutions that give you only one way to
work, DOORS/ERS has multiple tools that give you multiple access methods. This
gives you the flexibility you need to smoothly incorporate requirements
management into your organization.