quality assurance links

Quality Assurance Institute

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 Association of Connecticut

The Quality Assurance Association of Connecticut, Inc. is a non-profit educational organization of individuals interested in the advancement of knowledge about information systems quality assurance.

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.

American Society for Quality

The American Society for Quality advances individual and organizational performance excellence worldwide by providing opportunities for learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange.

STQE.Net

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.

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 Malcolm Baldridge Award

The Baldridge 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 Baldridge 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.

Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

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. 

The purpose of Capability Maturity Model (CMM®) Integration is to provide guidance for improving your organization's processes and your ability to manage the development, acquisition, and maintenance of products and services. CMM Integration places proven practices into a structure that helps your organization assess its organizational maturity and process area capability, establish priorities for improvement, and guide the implementation of these improvements.                                                

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Since its founding in 1969, Project Management Institute (PMI ®) has grown to be the organization of choice for project management professionalism. With over 55,000 members worldwide, PMI® 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)

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.  

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

McCabe and Associates

Core Metrics; Visual Quality Tool Set; Visual Testing Tool Set; Visual Reengineering Tool Set.

Mercury Interactive

Tools include WinRunner, XRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director.

Rational Software

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

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.

Segue Software, Inc.

Tools include Go (script generator), QA Partner, QA Planner, Silk (Web testing), QA DBTester, QA Radar, QA Performer/8, etc.