PSQT/PSTT 2002 South
New Orleans, Louisiana

March 4-8, 2002

International Conference on
Practical Software Quality Techniques
&
International Conference on
Practical Software Testing Techniques

PSQT Conferences both North and South have enjoyed phenomenal growth over the last four years. In addition, the interest in testing technology as means to improve the quality of software has dramatically increased because of the new challenges that face the software testing community.

Over the last several years, tutorials in PSQT conferences have been only by invitation.  This has contributed tremendously to the success of the conference.  Although we will continue to invite very high quality tutorials by highly qualified industry experts from around the world, we are now accepting proposals for a limited number of tutorials.   Proposals are expected to demonstrate an exceptional level of quality  to be selected.   Some of the topics of interest are listed below.  Other topics will be considered as well.

Key Dates

October 14, 2001:      Proposals for one-day tutorials are due.

November 4, 2001:    Proposals for track presentations and paper are due (see separate                                          Submission Guidelines)
                                     
December 3,  2001:    Notification of acceptance/rejection will be mailed out.

January 13,  2002:      Electronic copies of tutorial slides are due.

• Testing technology, Testing Process and Test Automation
• Inspections, Reviews, And Walkthroughs
• Software Process Assessment and Improvement
• Web and e-commerce related quality and testing issues
• Quality Management Issues
• Measurements and Benchmarking
• ISO 9000 Certification
• Configuration Management and Version Control
• Change Tracking
• Project Management
• Risk Assessment
• Requirement Management
• Automated Tools Dealing with any of these areas.

All accepted proposals are awarded a free admission to the two
day conference and a copy of the conference proceedings.

General rules:

1. Priority will be given to proposals that include the actual training material
2. Tutorials are 7 hours long and the submitted proposal must have enough substance to cover that.
3. Tutorials are considered focused in-depth training in the topic (like a one-day course)
4. The acceptance of a proposal does NOT guarantee acceptance of the tutorial.  The actual training material must be received before acceptance becomes final.

 Submission Rules: 

Any submission that does not follow exactly these rules will not be considered.  Proposals must include ALL items below: 

1. Tutorial title
2. Instructor's name, title, company name, job responsibilities
3. Mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and E-mail address
4. Detailed biography of the instructor indicating specific experiences with the topic as well as any prior teaching or speaking experience.
5. A narrative description of the concepts covered
6. A detailed outline of the tutorial, including topics and subtopics.  This outline is needed for inclusion in the tutorial book and the web site.
7. A bulleted list of the learning objectives
8. Indicate whether any variation of the material was presented before and list names and dates of the events.
9. A list of references (books, papers, etc.) based on which the material was created if any
10. A list of all pre-requisites if any
11. Actual tutorial slides and material if available.  Priority will be given to proposals that include the actual training material

All submissions must be sent via e-mail to the Conference Chair, Dr. Magdy S. Hanna at mhanna@psqtconference.com as follows. 

One file in MS Word or RTF format containing all items above

One PowerPoint or PDF format containing the tutorial slides

Do not include your submission in the body of the message