QA Association Links
The Quality Assurance
Institute (QAI) is exclusively dedicated to partnering with the enterprise-wide
Information Quality profession. QAI is an international organization consisting
of member companies in search of effective methods for detection-software
quality control and prevention-software quality assurance. QAI provides
leadership and state-of-the-art solutions in the form of consulting, education
services, and assessments.
Quality Assurance Networking
Association of Hudson Valley
The Quality Assurance Networking Association (QANA) is a group
of Quality Assurance Professionals of the Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and
Lower Dutchess counties area who promote and mange within their organizations.
CHARLOTTE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY QUALITY ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION
The Charlotte Information Technology Quality
Assurance Association (CITQAA) is a network of software QA professionals
in Charlotte, North Carolina. Our mission is to create an open forum in which
to share Software QA/Testing best practices and jointly address issues facing
the Software Quality Assurance industry.
The American Society for
Quality advances individual and organizational performance excellence worldwide
by providing opportunities for learning, quality improvement, and knowledge
exchange.
The vision in creating STQE.net is to deliver a content-rich destination site promoting an on-line network for software managers, testers, and quality engineers. Membership in STQE.net is FREE. SQE and the site sponsors who share this vision support STQE.net.
Software
Quality Engineering (SQE)
SQE
assists software professionals and organizations throughout the world with
improving their software testing and quality engineering practices. The
company's hands-on experience and training expertise help companies -- large
and small -- to improve testing practices, gain measurable control over software
projects, and ultimately deliver better software.
International
Standards Organization
Link to ISO information.
Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
The SEI mission is to provide leadership
in advancing the state of the practice of software engineering to improve the
quality of systems that depend on software.
The SEI accomplishes this mission by
promoting the evolution of software engineering from an ad hoc, labor-intensive
activity to a discipline that is well managed and supported by technology.
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.
International
Organization for Standardization (ISO)
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.
Software
Engineering Institute (CMM)
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.
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.
The Internet Society (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than
150 organizational and 6,000 individual members in over 100 countries. It
provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the
Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet
infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).
Program Planning Professionals, Inc.
Every Project Successful
Program Planning Professionals is an international leader in program and
project management. With over 300 consultants working from our global offices,
we specialize in enabling companies to deliver complex projects on time and in
budget. We stress rapid delivery of pragmatic solutions that help companies
succeed in today's fast-changing business environment
Tool Links
Core
Metrics; Visual Quality ToolSet; Visual Testing ToolSet; Visual Reengineering
ToolSet
Tools include WinRunner, XRunner,
LoadRunner, Test Director.
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.
RSW Software specializes in
Internet Application testing software. They offer a suite of products, the
e-Test Suite, which helps automate the process of testing business-critical Web
based and e-Commerce applications.
Call 508-435-8000
Tools include Go (script
generator), QA Partner, QA Planner, Silk (Web testing), QA DBTester, QA Radar,
QA Performer/8, etc.