Achieving higher quality software through knowledge exchange
It’s been a challenging year worldwide. From a global pandemic to political divides, and protests for justice and awareness being met with violence, it seems like there are more things driving us apart than keeping us together.
As a nonprofit, our mission is to provide a platform for education and the exchange of ideas and information. While we focus on the changing trends, tools, and approaches to quality within the software industry, we also know that global events reach our community and affect it in many ways. And we want to recognize this as we go forward.
The era of a single individual creating a significant software system is an artifact of the past. Modern software systems are built by teams and groups of teams working together using hundreds of libraries and components, running across distributed networks and cloud systems.
To implement quality software systems requires communication, alignment, synchronization, and a staggering array of specialists and experts to define and refine the working product.
2021 is a chance for reflection and sharing what you have learned about working together, better, while hundreds of other things conspire to derail the project and push you away from the goals.
Join us October 11-13, 2021 for the 39th annual PNSQC, as leaders of the software engineering profession gather to discuss the latest trends in software development, QA, and testing. You’ll learn from those on the cutting edge — and have plenty of opportunities to socialize too, making new friends and contacts to build your professional and personal networks.
We want to hear from you when the call for proposals opens in January. The PNSQC Program Committee will consider any level of subject matter — from beginner to theoretical.
Although the 2021 theme is “Coming Together,” PNSQC is looking for any original topic on the process of improving software development.
Proposals could come in the form of:
Although authors are allowed to submit multiple proposals, each proposal should be limited to a single topic. Additionally, any individual author will only be accepted once as the primary author. All submissions must be received by April 15th, 2021. Submit your proposal now!
After a proposal is accepted by the Program Committee, authors will work with reviewers over the summer to write a paper and create a presentation for the October 2021 conference.
PNSQC 2021 is guaranteed to be held virtually — due to safety measures, we’re holding off planning any in-person gatherings just yet — so presenters will not need to travel to present at the conference.
How do you define the difference between a Quality Assurance Engineer and a Quality Engineer? The author thinks about software testing roles.
Come together on January 28th, for the opening of the PNSQC Call for Papers and to experience a Culture Jam
After a long year working on improving software quality, sometimes you need a break for some fun and games. Here are some brain teasers, riddles and word puzzles to test yourself!
Lessons learned by the program committee while staging PNSQC 2020, our first completely virtual conference.
Watch the lightning talks on software quality given at PNSQC’s CFP kickoff event, Culture Jam 2021: Quality Coming Together
Catch the replay of this PNSQC webinar “Transformative Change Initiatives Require a Culture of Quality” from September 30, 2020.
PNSQC started the 2020 conference season with a Light The Torch event at Cvent in Portland. Topics included cyber security, communication issues, mob programming, using biologically inspired testing methods, and thoughts on vision problems in executing enterprise IT projects.
Announcing 2020 Vision: Lighting the Torch. A lightning talk event in January 2020 to kick off the call for proposals for presenting at the PNSQC 2020 software quality conference.
