Organizations and corporations offering software quality
products and services.
Aculis - A team of technical experts dedicated to providing high quality and innovative software services in three key areas: quality assurance, onsite staffing, and localization. Their experts understand all aspects of the development life cycle - including how software services fit into modern development methodologies such as Extreme Programming, AGILE and the Rational Unified Process. In addition, Aculis understands the benefits of establishing and maintaining high quality assurance requirements.
bugVisor - Solutions for change management, bug & defect tracking, post release support and help desk with a fully customizable workflow.
Conformiq Software Ltd. - A software testing and quality assurance company which operates in the area of software testing and quality assurance to solve software quality problems with innovative, automation solutions, expertise and methodologies. Along with testing services, products include the Conformiq Test Generator which is delivers model-based test automation.
GrammaTech Inc - This service provider develops and market static-analysis and program-transformation tools for C/C++ and Ada. Their tools exploit the rules of a programming language's syntax and semantics to automate tasks that most engineers still perform manually with conventional tools. Tools include: CodeSonar and CodeSurfer for C/C++, and Ada-Assured and Ada-Utilities for Ada.
Item Software - Item Software provides training and consulting services, as well as complete software solutions and customization for the Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety, and Quality Assurance engineering fields. The site includes downloadable evaluation copies of their software.
Managing Requirements - This page is complied by Ludwig Consulting Services, LLC. If you seek practical information about requirements management, that information is here for you—whether you are a client, project manager, analyst, quality assurance professional, or student.
Michael Fagan Associates - The company's logo is "Productivity Improvement Through Defect Free Development". The following information is from the company web site:
"In the fast paced worlds of software and hardware development, most organizations are faced with a compelling need to:
Reduce cycle time
Improve quality
Reduce costs
Improve productivity
Michael Fagan created the Fagan Defect-Free Process™ (of which Fagan Inspections are a key part) to address these requirements. And it works! Our clients have reported significant cycle time reductions while simultaneously improving product quality, reducing costs and improving productivity."
N R Malotaux Consultancy - This company functions as as an independent consultant to teach outsourcers as well as developers how to "optimise the development process", especially for electronics and software development. Areas of consulting include: Quality On Time - That is: Simply the right things, simply on time
- Evolutionary Project Management (Evo) - How to be on time with the right things
- Requirements Engineering and Management - What should be the result of the project: The Where, for Whom, What, how Well, When and Why
- Reviews - How to enhance the contents of any document
- Inspections - How to measure the quality of any document
National Business Research Institute, Inc. - NBRII develops and conducts surveys to measure customer and/or employee satisfaction and gather comprehensive employee and/or customer survey data on all variables that impact productivity and profitability.
Parasoft - Specializing in Automated Error Prevention (AEP) products and services to prevent errors and improve the quality and reliability of your software.
PolySpace Embedded Software Verification - PolySpace™ products verify C, C++, and Ada code for embedded applications by detecting run-time errors before code is compiled and executed. This advanced verification technology uses formal methods not only to detect errors, but to prove mathematically that certain classes of run-time errors do not exist.
You can use these tools on hand-written code, or code generated automatically from Model-Based Design tools. For automatically generated code, PolySpace Link products trace results back to models to help you correct design errors.
Process Impact - Process Impact is a service provider who focuses on practical software process improvement. Areas of expertise include requirements engineering, risk management, software peer reviews, project management, metrics, and process assessment.
Process Inc. - Process Inc. works with their customers to gain mastery of their software process, enabling them to reduce cycle time, increase productivity, reduce defects, reduce re-work, and increase predictability of schedule, cost and quality.
Qualitran Inc. - Qualitran Inc. is a supplier of software and training products and services in the field of Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments and Continuous Quality Improvement. Founded in 1980 by Les Galicinski, P.Eng., the organization provides training, training materials and software to help organizations implement these disciplines.
Quality America - Founded in 1983, Quality America offers Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Document Control software, as well as ASQ Certification materials, SPC Training, and Six Sigma software, training, and consulting.
Quality Plus Technologies, Inc. - Quality Plus Technologies, Inc. offers public and on-site professional training in Software Measurement and Function Point Analysis (certified by the International Function Point Users Group) based on IFPUG rules.
Rex Black Consulting Services - RBCS, Inc. provides training, consulting, and contract services in the fields of sofware, hardware, and systems testing and quality assurance. Clients include small start-ups, US government agencies, and Fortune 1000 businesses. Over 80+ free templates, case studies, checklists, and examples are available for free download to support testing professionals following our techniques by using the books *Managing the Testing Process* and *Critical Testing Processes*.
RTTS - RTTS is a professional services organization that specializes in the testing of IT applications and architecture.
Satisfice, Inc. - Satisfice is a software test consulting, outsourcing, and training company founded by James Bach. Satisfice performs software quality assurance and testing for companies that set a high quality standard yet must work under conditions of time pressure using a techniques called Rapid Testing. Rapid Testing is tester-centric (as opposed to technique-centric) and is a blend of heuristic testing, risk-based testing, and exploratory testing.
SoftRel - Software Reliability Prediction - SoftRel develops predictive models. Namely numerical and classification models via data mining, knowledge discovery, and knowledge extraction.
Software Research Institute (SRI) - Improve delivered software quality through research, design, and implementation of tools for software testing and quality assurance, functional testing, requirements testing, coverage analysis, regression testing, WebSite testing, embedded system testing, with full support for WebSites, Java, C, C++, COBOL, Ada, and Fortran. The SRI maintains one of the best databases of Software Testing Tools in the world.
Software Systems Quality Consulting (SSQC) - SSQC is positioned to help software and hardware developers, manufacturers, and service providers in six related areas: Software Process Improvement, Business Process Reengineering, Education and Training Services, ISO 9000 Implementation Services, Software Quality Assurance and Testing, and SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Implementation Services.
SSQC is an active United States TAG member in the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 - Software Engineering Standards subcommittee which is responsible for the development and maintenance of ISO 12207, ISO 15504 (SPICE) and ISO 9000-3.
Software Technology Transition (STT) - Organized in 1994, STT is a software process improvement company providing products and services in the SPI and SW Quality areas.
T-VEC: Test Vector Generation System - T-VEC Technologies provides modeling and test generation systems that automate the typically manual and error-prone testing activities including test generation and test driver generation. T-VEC provides tools for modeling requirements, as well as test generation support for The Mathworks Simulink, and National Instruments MATRIXx.
USC Center for Software Engineering - Thirty-six Affiliates help keep USC CSE in touch with technology, applications, and economic trends through participation in their annual workshops and collaborative projects, covering such areas as value-based spiral model extensions, COCOMO cost-schedule-quality estimation model extensions, UML-xADL architecture specification extensions, COTS-based system development, and agile methods.
VT Enterprise Software Validation - Experts in outsourcing services for software maintenance, software testing and quality assurance services, and technical documentation.
WorkSoft Inc. - This Software Quality related site provides links to free articles as well as their tool "Certify" an automated testing solution.
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