Professional Society Links
AST - The Association for Software Testing
The Association for Software Testing (AST) is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of software testing. The AST serves a community of scholars, students, and software development practitioners by providing forums for discussion of all aspects of software testing through conferences, publications, web sites, and other services.
ANSI — American National Standards Institute
American National Standards Institute's online resource
for the latest national and international standard-related activitites.
IEEE-The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest technical professional
society. Founded in 1884 by a handful of practitioners of the new electrical
engineering discipline. Today's Institute is comprised of more than 320,000
members who conduct and participate in activities around the world.
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
You can find human factor and ergonomic related news,
publications and products on this site. The Society's mission is to promote the
discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human
beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.
Society For Technical Communication
Society's diverse membership includes writers, editors, illustrators,
printers, publishers, educators, students, engineers, and scientists who are
employed in a variety of technological fields. STC is the largest professional
organization serving the technical communication profession. This site provides
many links to research materials on documentation process and quality,
including:
* Links to technical communication conferences.
* Links to STC
Special Interest Groups.
* Links to technical communication seminars.
* Links to educational resources related to technical communication.
* Links to technical communications-related resources, from indexing to
online help, to usability.
NSSN — National Standards Systems Network
Lots of links to standards providers, developers, and
sellers.
ASQ — American Society for Quality
This site describes the organization and its activities.
It offers information on quality standards, certification programs (including
Certified Software Quality Engineer and Certified Quality Engineers), and a
useful ASQuality Glossary of Terms search engine.
Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group
These software test professionals in the Seattle area
meet on the third Thursday of each month. There is no charge to join them. They
hold presentations on software quality that are followed by
networking/discussion opportunities.
Silicon Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA)
This society is devoted to software quality; they're
located in the middle of Silicon Valley. Meetings are free and open to the
public.
SIGIST — Special Interest Group in Software Testing
Testing branch of the British Computer Society (BCS).
ISO — International Organization for Standardization
Describes ISO (International Organization for
Standardization), with links to other standards organizations.
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