Links

Local Testing and Consulting Companies

• CompuCom/Excell (Testing/Training)
• Construx
• VeriTest
• DMR (Fujitsu) Consulting Group Inc.
• Interactive Business Systems
• QualityLogic, Inc.
• Testing Testing 123

Standards Bodies

• ANSI - American National Standards Institute
• IEEE - Try their Software Engineering Techniques and Standards
• ISO Online - International Organization for Standardization
• NIST's Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award
• SEI - The Software Engineering Institute, home of CMM, the Capability Maturity Model
• SPICE - Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination

Professional Organizations

• American Society for Quality - the original quality society in America
• Software Division
• Seattle Section - membership, newsletter, events, resources...
• Greater Kansas City Quality Assurance Assocationa (KCQAA)
• New Jersey Quality Assurance Association - we're not the only QA user group in the nation
• Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference - Spring Tutorials and Fall Conference
• Quality Assurance Institute - Consulting and Certification Services
• Puget Sound SIGCHI - Computer-Human Interaction
• SeaSpin - Seattle Eastside Area Software Process Improvement Network
• Society for Software Quality - quality checklists and conference information
• SPICE Users Group
• Software Engineering Body of Knowledge - working to make software engineering a profession
• Washington Software Alliance - "... to make Washington state the information technologies center of the world."

Resources

• Bret Pettichord's Software Testing Hotlist - test automation and more
• comp.software.testing newsgroup 
• Cooper Interaction Design - Check out their Design Resources
• Jakob Nielson's Usability Site 
• Kaner.com - practical QA and legal information by Cem Kaner, author of Testing Computer Software
• NASA Software Assurance Technology Center 
• QAforums.com 
• QualiNET - discussion forums for QA professionals
• Software Development Magazine - A FREE magazine with great info about development process and testing!!!
• Software QA and Testing Resource Center - for beginners and experienced professionals
• Software Testing & Quality Engineering Magazine - Read their featured article online.
• Sticky Minds The online resource for building better software.  Packed with useful articles.
• Tom Gilchrist's Software Engineering Resources
• University of Washington Extension - Software Testing Certificate Program

Testing and Consulting Companies

• Compuware Corporation - testing tools
• Deming Institute - research and education
• Empirix - provider of software application test tools
• LogiGear - Software Testing solutions
• ManagementWisdom.com - quality management a la Deming
• Mercury Interactive - test tools
• ParaSoft - testing tools
• Quality Assurance Institute - consulting, products, certification, and testing
• RadView - testing tools
• Rational - CASE and test/certification tools
• Segue - silk automated testing tools and more
• Software Productivity Centre - process tools and consulting
• Software Quality Engineering - training, consulting, publications

Software Inspection

• Software Inspection, by Tom Gilb and Dorothy Graham - An excellent, practical guidebook!
• Software Technology Review of Software Inspections - Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute
• Software Formal Inspections Standard - Courtesy of NASA

2002 QAI Conference Reports

by Steven Blaire, CSQA of from SAFECO, winner of SASQAG's QAI Conference Scholarship

• Conference Introduction
• Effective Meeting Activities       
• Estimation       
• Implementing Peer Reviews       
• Metrics       
•  Moments of Magic