Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference – Portland, Oregon

Submit Your Abstract Now – Call Extended to May 8
This is your opportunity to be an author at this year’s conference! The Call for Abstracts closes May 8 for technical papers and August 15 for poster papers. Your abstract only needs to be a couple paragraphs summarizing the topic of your paper.
There are many advantages to being an author – it promotes rigorous analysis and helps you develop learning from your work, and earns you free or discounted admission to the conference.
Not sure what to write about?
- What’s new and important for web applications? Cloud computing? Mobile devices? … Each have their own set of challenges.
- Or what about open source development? Testing in the wild? Legal compliance? Metrics? Security?
- Are you really agile? Does Agile still even work? What are the best kept secrets?
- What’s your experience with driving and contributing to software quality? What works and what doesn’t? Any new methods, insights, or experiences?
Visit either the Technical Paper Author Instructions or Poster Paper Author Instructions page to get started.
Keynotes, Invited Speakers, and Workshops
| Matt Heusser, Excelon Development | A Brief History of the Quality Movement and What Software Should Do About It |
| Dale Emery, Consultant | Testing Quality In |
| Suzanne Miller, Software Engineering Institute (SEI) | SDTaaS (SW Development & Test as a Service): Why? How? |
| Linda Rising, Consultant | The Power of An Agile Mindset in Determining Quality |
| Ben Simo, Go Daddy | Discovering Quality |
| Peter Walen, Consultant | The Experience is the Thing: Having User Experience Drive Testing |
| Matt Heusser and Peter Walen | Software Testing Reloaded |
| Dale Emery | Acceptance Test Driven Development Workshop |
| Debra Lavell, Intel | Making Metrics Matter |
| Suzanne Miller (half-day) | Agile Methods + Services Best Practices: The Next Quality Advantage? |
| Linda Rising (half-day) | Problem-solving and Decision-making in Software Development |
| Linda Rising (half-day) | Influence Strategies for Practitioners |
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