Re: Boston SPIN - February Meeting Announcement

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Were you going to go to this?  James Bach is a big-wig.  I think I'd like to
go.

 > From: Daniel Forrest Allen <http://www.danallen.com/~danallen>
 > Date: Tue  Jan 26, 10:57pm
 >
 > Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
 > February Meeting Announcement
 > 
 > Topic:	 Good Enough Testing: Heuristic Models for Assessing Your Test Process
 > Speaker: James Bach
 > 
 > When: 	 THURSDAY, February 25, 1998. 5:30pm-8:30pm
 >          5:30 PM - Socializing & networking
 >          6:30 PM - Dinner
 >          7:30 PM - Speaker
 > 
 > COST:   $25.00 (Includes dinner and speaker)
 > 
 > DINNER RESERVATIONS: Call 781-942-8421 before  February 21, if you intend
 > to have dinner.
 > 
 > Meeting only: Please do not RSVP for dinner if you are not planning to have
 > dinner. If you intend to arrive at about 7:30pm just to hear James Bach,
 > please email Johanna at http://www.jrothman.com/~jr or call 781-641-4046. We need this
 > notification to make sure we have enough chairs.
 > 
 > Who:	 Everyone (Academia, Government, Industry)
 > 
 > Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel, Waltham (Joint meeting with ASQ, Boston
 > section)
 > 	  exit 27 off Rte. 128 (420 Totten Pond Rd). The Wyndham Garden is east
 >           of Rte. 128. (Wheelchair accessible)
 > 
 > Info:	See our web page, http://www.cs.uml.edu/Boston-SPIN
 > 	For SPIN info, contact Johanna Rothman, 781-641-4046, 
 >        or http://www.jrothman.com/~jr
 > 
 > Abstract:
 > In intellectual enterprises, "Good Enough" is an abstract concept and a
 > challenging goal-- at least for those of us who want to be *absolutely
 > certain* we are doing a good enough job. One thing we do to evaluate the
 > goodness of software is to test it. But how do we know that our testing is
 > itself good enough? We need methods of evaluating the goodness of testing.
 > In this talk I will present several heuristic models for evaluating a test
 > process. They are part of a work in progress at Reliable Software
 > Technologies to produce a comprehensive heuristic testing methodology.
 > 
 > About the Speaker:
 > James Bach is a Principal SQA Practitioner at Reliable Software
 > Technologies, in Sterling, VA. In his fifteen years in Silicon Valley-style
 > software companies, including nine years at Apple Computer, Borland
 > International, and Aurigin Systems, he's been a programmer, tester, QA
 > manager, and roving problem-solver. For three years, James was Chief
 > Scientist at ST Labs, an independent software testing company in Seattle
 > that performs substantial testing and tester training for Microsoft.
 > 
 > James is a frequent speaker and writer on the subject of software quality
 > assurance and development processes. James writes and edits the "Software
 > Realities" column in IEEE Computer magazine, is a former section chair of
 > the American Society for Quality and the Silicon Valley Software Quality
 > Association, and was part of the ASQ committee that created the Certified
 > Software Quality Engineer program. He is best known, however, as a pioneer
 > in the emerging discipline of Good Enough software.
 > 
 > Monthly Round Table Announcement
 > 
 > There will be no formal roundtables this month, because this is a dinner
 > meeting.
 > 
 > For March, If you'd like to volunteer to facilitate a round table, please
 > contact Caroline J. Starita, 978-442-4004 or http://www.amp.com/~staritac. Facilitators
 > for the monthly sessions will be notified no later than noon the third
 > Monday in order to ensure appropriate coverage of the selected sessions.
 > 
 > Directions: The Windham Gardens is at 420 Totten Pond Rd, Waltham - Exit 27
 > off Rt. 128.
 > 
 > Snow cancellations:  We will notify the membership via email to the SPIN
 > distribution list, post the notice on the SPIN web page, and announce the
 > cancellation on Channel 7 TV and radio, WRKO AM 680.
 > 
 > SPIN Sponsors:
 > GTE Government Systems, Needham, MA
 > We thank the Computer Science department of UMass-Lowell for providing
 > support and hosting our web page.