Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) has raised ?2.47 million to build tools that will enable software companies and Open Source projects to benchmark the quality of their application's source-code and prove its suitability for enterprise deployment. SQO-OSS is a consortium of leading European Open Source projects, consultants and research institutions from Greece, the UK, Germany and Sweden that is developing a comprehensive suite of software quality assessment tools.

A community-driven Ubuntu QA team has formally been created. The Ubuntu QA team is focused on developing tools, policies, and practices for ensuring Ubuntu's quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA activities within the Ubuntu project. We are broadly looking at enhancing the awareness and contribution to QA around Ubuntu as well as helping people interested in serious QA work find a common, collaborative, and open environment.

David and I will be trying a three-day version of our course on exploratory testing. In the course we look at some of the heuristics we use, review how we structure and manage our testing, and spend a large balance of time (more than 50%) testing real products. It’s a hands on course, tailored to [...]

We are starting planning for the September Indianapolis Workshop on Software Testing focused on the topic of testers who write code. Here are the details:Date: Friday, September 26Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PMLocation: Indianapolis, IN @ Mobius LabsIn this workshop we will focus on those aspects of testing where we write code. There will be [...]

The third annual Conference for the Association of Software Testing took place this week in Toronto. I’ve spent the last couple of days in conversations with people from multiple countries talking about testing from many perspectives.

What’s cool about the conference is how much conferring takes place. Spontaneous conversations among people who’ve never met before bubble up when one person makes a comment and like-minded people find each other. And sometimes when people who aren’t like-minded find each other.