General
NZ Organisation for Quality
NZOQ is a non-profit, professional society dedicated to providing leadership in the adoption of the principles of quality management and best practice in New Zealand.
(NZOQ does not specialise in any one industry.)
TickIT
"To meet customers' quality expectations, software suppliers, including in-house developers, need to define and implement a quality system which covers all the essential business processes in the product life cycle. TickIT guides the developer to achieve this objective within the framework of ISO 9000."
Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM)
(Carnegie Mellon University) "The Capability Maturity Model for Software is a model for judging the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these processes."
Quality Assurance Institute
"QAI is an international organization consisting of member companies in search of effective methods for detection-software quality control and prevention-software quality assurance. QAI provides leadership and state-of-the-art solutions in the form of consulting, education services, and assessments."
The Project Management Institute of New Zealand
PMINZ aims to encourage the development of professionalism in Project Management within New Zealand. Go here for information about project management seminars, conferences, training and publications, including PMINZ's monthly newsletter, PMForum.
Software Engineering Institute
(Carnegie Mellon University) - features a Software Engineering Information Repository.
Software Quality Institute
(University of Texas) "Through innovative teaching, SQI informs
and educates software producers and users about issues vital to the
production and application of high-quality software. SQI specializes in
practitioner-to-practitioner training with an emphasis on hands-on
practical workshops."
Software QA and Testing Resource Center
The FAQs on this site make interesting reading, like the following:
Why is it often hard for management to get serious about quality
assurance?
Solving problems is a high-visibility process; preventing problems is
low-visibility. This is illustrated by an old parable:
In ancient China there was a family of healers, one of whom was known
throughout the land and employed as a physician to a great lord. The
physician was asked which of his family was the most skillful healer. He
replied,
"I tend to the sick and dying with drastic and dramatic treatments,
and on occasion someone is cured and my name gets out among the
lords."
"My elder brother cures sickness when it just begins to take root,
and his skills are known among the local peasants and neighbors."
"My eldest brother is able to sense the spirit of sickness and
eradicate it before it takes form. His name is unknown outside our
home."
The site has other resources and links as well.
Testing
British Standards in Testing
The home of the Testing Standards Working Party: a volunteer group
devoted to the development of new software testing standards. The group
was previously responsible for the production of the British Standards,
BS 7925-1 Vocabulary of terms in software testing, and BS 7925-2
Software component testing, both of which were published in August 1998.
StickyMinds
"Brain food for building better software"
ISEB - Software Testing Certification
Information Systems Examinations Board of the British Computer Society
Agile Testing
A Roadmap for Testing on an Agile Project
Exploratory Testing
A Survey of Exploratory Testing
FitNesse Acceptance Testing Framework
"The fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing
framework"