Formal Training Opportunities


With the realization that software testing is an important field of study, many colleges and universities have begun to offer classes on the subject. If you're currently in an engineering or computer degree program, it would be well worth your time to enroll in one of these classes. Even if your plans are to become a programmer or engineer, gaining a better knowledge of software testing can help you perform your job even better.

Many community and technical colleges are now offering day and evening classes on software testing and the use of popular software testing tools. Some even award associate degrees and certificates in software testing.

Another option for training is to attend professional software testing conferences. Held throughout the year and in various parts of the United States and even the world, these conferences provide an opportunity for you to hear speakers from across the testing industry. Class material spans the entire range from very basic to very advanced and technical. The best part of these conferences is having the opportunity to meet and talk with fellow software testers, sharing ideas, war stories, and solutions. The following list represents some of the more popular conferences, but definitely not all of them. Presence or absence doesn't reflect an endorsement or an opinion.

  • International Software Testing Conference (ISTC), sponsored by the Quality Assurance Institute (www.qaiusa.com). ISTC is a weeklong conference featuring expert speakers from across the software testing and quality assurance industry. Topics range from basic software testing to test automation to testing specific new technologies.

  • Software Testing Analysis & Review (STAR), sponsored by Software Quality Engineering (www.sqe.com). The STAR conferences are focused exclusively on software testing and software engineering. They provide classes, tutorials, and discussions by software testing experts and hold an exposition where test tool, technology, and service companies demonstrate their products.

  • International Conference on Software Quality (ICSQ), sponsored by the Software Division of the American Society for Quality (www.icsq.org). ICSQ, like the other conferences, provides an opportunity to share testing ideas and methods with other software testing and quality assurance professionals.

  • International Conference on Software Testing (ICSTEST), sponsored by Software Quality Systems (www.icstest.com). ICSTEST is an international testing conference held in Germany. It's a forum for presentations, tutorials, discussions, and exchange of experiences on software testing.

  • The World Conference for Software Quality (WCSQ), sponsored by the International Software Quality Institute (ISQI) (www.isqi.org), brings together the leading experts in academia and industry to share ideas, insights, experiences, and advances in software quality, software process improvement, and software development methods.



    Software Testing
    Lessons Learned in Software Testing
    ISBN: 0471081124
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 233

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