Interesting articles of Cem Kaner

After I visited Kaner site at the end of 2007 (the jobless time), I got an idea to categorize them all one day. And it's time these days. I started collect the "high-light" articles since last week and the last small piece will be done today, Sunday. It will be a tool to help me to access these slides easier later, and I hope it would be interesting for you too, my dear testing friends.

To get ALL pdf files of Kaner's article, just come here to download it, one 81M-zip file.

(Here is the latest one in his site when I downloaded ALL of them on 2008-10-30
Cem Kaner, "Comments on the August 31, 2007 Draft of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines." Submitted to the United States Election Assistance Commission, May 2008.)

+ Testing in general

- Cem Kaner, "What is a software defect?" Software QA, Volume 3, #6, 1996.
- Cem Kaner, "Bad software—Who is liable?" (Invited address) Proceedings of the American Society for Quality's 52nd Annual Quality Congress, Philadelphia, May, 1998.
- Cem Kaner, "What is a good test case?" [SLIDES] Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May 12-16, 2003.
- Cem Kaner, "Fundamental challenges in software testing." [SLIDES] Colloquium Presentation at Butler University, April 2003.
- Cem Kaner & James Bach, "Black box software testing: Tutorial on test design." [SLIDES] (Tutorial) Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October 13-15, 2003.

- Cem Kaner, "Notes for the Workshop on Combination Testing." [SLIDES] Workshop on Combination Testing, Seattle, WA, January 2006.
- Sowmya Padmanabhan, Domain Testing: Divide & Conquer [Appendices] Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 2004. 
- Cem Kaner, "Requirements for test documentation." (Invited address) Quality Assurance Institute Annual International Quality Conference, Orlando, FL., September, 1999.
- Cem Kaner & James Bach "Developing the right test documentation." [tutorial] 14th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, June, 2001. Also presented at Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October, 2001.
- Cem Kaner & James Bach, "Exploratory testing in pairs." [SLIDES] Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May, 2001. Also presented at Software Testing, Analysis & Review Conference (Star) West, San Jose, CA, October, 2001.
- Cem Kaner, (2002) "Effective bug reporting." [SLIDES] (Tutorial session) 15th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, September, 2002.
- Cem Kaner, (2002) "Paradigms of black box software testing." [SLIDES] (Tutorial session) 15th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, September, 2002.
- Cem Kaner, "The context-driven approach to software testing." [SLIDES] (Keynote address) Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May, 2002.
- Giri Vijayaraghavan & Cem Kaner, "Bug taxonomies: Use them to generate better tests." [SLIDES] Software Testing, Analysis & Review Conference (Star East), Orlando, FL, May 12-16, 2003. (Received the Best Paper Award at STAR).
- Cem Kaner, "Bug Advocacy." [SLIDES] July, 2000.
 

+ Exploratory testing 


- Andy Tinkham & Cem Kaner, "Learning styles and exploratory testing." [SLIDES] Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October 13-15, 2003.

- Andy Tinkham & Cem Kaner, "Exploring exploratory testing." [SLIDES] Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May 12-16, 2003.

- Cem Kaner, "A tutorial in exploratory testing." [SLIDES] QAI QUEST Conference, Chicago, April 2008
- Cem Kaner, "The Nature of Exploratory Testing," [SLIDES] Choices in IT conference. Columbus, OH, September, 2006.
- Cem Kaner, "Exploratory testing after 23 years." [SLIDES] [Keynote address] Conference of the Association for Software Testing, June 6, 2006.
- Cem Kaner, "Exploratory Testing." (Keynote address) [SLIDES]. Quality Assurance Institute Worldwide Annual Software Testing Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2006.
- Cem Kaner, "Developing Skills as an Exploratory Tester." (Tutorial) [SLIDES] Quality Assurance Institute Worldwide Annual Software Testing Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2006.
- Cem Kaner & James Bach, "The nature of exploratory testing." [SLIDES], Tampere, Finland, May 7, 2004.

+ Automation Test


- Cem Kaner, Walter P. Bond & Pat McGee, "High volume test automation." [SLIDES] (Keynote Address) Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May 20, 2004.
- Cem Kaner, "Avoiding shelfware: A manager's view of automated GUI testing." [SLIDES] (Keynote address) Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May 6, 1998.  

- Pat McGee & Cem Kaner, "Experiments with high volume test automation." Workshop on Empirical Research in Software Testing, International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Boston, MA, July 2004. 
- Cem Kaner, Walter P. Bond & Pat McGee, "High volume test automation." [SLIDES] (Colloquium) Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, October 31, 2003. (The slides are also a preview of my keynote address at STAR East 2004 on high volume test automation.)
- Cem Kaner, "Software test automation: A real-world problem." (Colloquium) Allegheny College, Meadsville, PA, 1999.
- Cem Kaner, "GUI regression automation." Washington Software Association QA SIG, Redmond, WA, May 20, 1997.
- Cem Kaner, "Improving the maintainability of automated test suites." Software QA, Volume 4, #4, 1997. (Also published in Proceedings of the 10th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, May 28, 1997.)
- Cem Kaner, "Architectures of test automation." [SLIDES] Software Testing, Analysis & Review Conference (Star) West, San Jose, CA, October, 2000.

+ Industry

- Cem Kaner, "The ongoing revolution in software testing," [SLIDES] October 2007,  [2004 version]
- Cem Kaner, "Software testing as a social science," [SLIDES] STEP 2000 Workshop on Software Testing, Memphis, May 2008.
- Robert L. Glass, Ross Collard, Antonia Bertolino, James Bach, & Cem Kaner, "Software testing and industry needs," [OUT-LINK] IEEE Software, vol. 23, pp. 55-57, 2006.
- Cem Kaner, "Software testing as a social science." [SLIDES] Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC 2006), Montreal, Canada, January 19-21, 2006. More recent versions are Colloquium at Dalhousie University, May 2006; Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality, October, 2006.
- Cem Kaner, "Software testing as a social science." [SLIDES] IFIP Working Group 10.4 meeting on Software Dependability, Siena, Italy, July 6, 2004.
- Cem Kaner, "The past and future of software testing." [SLIDES] Software Testing Day, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, May 4, 2004.
- Cem Kaner, "An outline for software testing outsourcing." [SLIDES] Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May 2000.
 
+ Coverage/Metrics

- Cem Kaner "Rethinking software metrics: Evaluating measurement schemes." Software Testing & Quality Engineering. Vol. 2, Issue 2 (March) p. 50-57, 2000.
- Cem Kaner, "Software-related measurement: Risks and opportunties," [SLIDES] October 2007
- Cem Kaner, "Improve the power of your tests with risk-based test design." [SLIDES] QAI QUEST  Conference, Chicago, April 2008
- Cem Kaner, "Software negligence and testing coverage." (Keynote address) Software Testing, Analysis & Review Conference (STAR), Orlando, FL, p. 313, May 16, 1996.
- Cem Kaner, "Fundamental issues in software metrics." [Tutorial] Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC 2006), Montreal, Canada, January 19-21, 2006
- Cem Kaner & Walter P. Bond, "Software engineering metrics: What do they measure and how do we know?" 10th International Software Metrics Symposium (Metrics 2004), Chicago, IL, September 14-16, 2004.
- Cem Kaner, "Software negligence and testing coverage" (updated). Software QA Quarterly, Volume 2, #2, p. 18, 1995.
- Cem Kaner, "Test planning for consumer software." Quality Week Conference, San Francisco, CA 1988.
- Cem Kaner & James Bach, "Rapid test planning." [SLIDES] Software Testing, Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) West, San Jose, CA, October, 2001.
- Cem Kaner, "Testing undocumented software under impossible deadlines." [SLIDES] Software Testing, Analysis & Review Conference (STAR West, San Diego, CA, October 30, 1998; also at Software Testing, Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May 1999.
- Cem Kaner, "A short course in metrics and measurement dysfunction." [SLIDES] (Tutorial session) 15th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, September, 2002.
- Cem Kaner, "Measurement issues and software testing." [SLIDES] (Keynote address) Proceedings of the QUEST 2001 Segue Software User's Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2001.
- Cem Kaner, "Measurement of the extent of testing." Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October, 2000.

+ For Lead/Manager:

- Cem Kaner, "Measuring the effectiveness of software testers." [SLIDES] in Progressive Insurance. Cleveland, OH, 2006; [2002 version]

- Cem Kaner, "How many lightbulbs does it take to change a tester?" [SLIDES] (Keynote address) Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October 13-15, 2003.

- Cem Kaner, "Interviewing software testing job candidates." 12th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Jose, CA, May, 1999.
- Cem Kaner & David Pels, "Collaboration between support staff and testers." [SLIDES] Proceedings of the Support Services Conference & Expo, San Francisco, September 9, 1998.
- Cem Kaner, "Recruiting software testers." (version 6) Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) West , San Jose, CA, May 2000. [1999, 1st version] [version 4a]
- Cem Kaner, "Negotiating testing resources: A collaborative approach." 9th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, May, 1996.
- Cem Kaner, Elisabeth Hendrickson & Jennifer Smith-Brock , "Managing the proportion of testers to (other) developers." [SLIDES] Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October, 2001. (Essentially the same paper was presented at 14th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, June, 2001.)
- Cem Kaner, "Inefficiency and Ineffectiveness of Software Testing: A Key Problem in Software Engineering." National Defense Industrial Association Workshop: Top 5 Software Engineering Problems or Issues Prevalent Within the Defense Industry, Washington DC, August, 2006.
- Cem Kaner, "Contracts for testing services: Warranty and indemnification." Software QA, Volume 3, #5, p. 20, 1996.
- Cem Kaner & Michael Kurtz, "Software contracting: Proposed revisions to the UCC." [SLIDES]
- Cem Kaner, "Contracts for testing services: Settling disagreements." Software QA, Volume 4, #2, 1997.
- Cem Kaner & David Pels, "Software customer dissatisfaction." Software QA, Volume 4, #3, p. 24, 1997.
- Cem Kaner, "Looking for your first job in software testing." [SLIDES] Talk at Florida Tech, 2002.
- Cem Kaner, "Don't use bug counts to measure testers." Software Testing & Quality Engineering, May/June, 1999, p. 80.
- Cem Kaner, "The role of testers in XP." [SLIDES] Initially on flipcharts at a workshop at the Agile Development conference, Salt Lake, UT, June, 2003. On slides at Bay Area XP meeting, Palo Alto, CA, August 2003.
- Cem Kaner, & James Bach (2002) "Developing your testing approach: A context-driven analysis." [SLIDES] (Keynote address) Rational User Conference, Orlando, FL, August 2002.
- Cem Kaner & Brian Lawrence, "Software Test Managers' Roundtable." (Meeting handbook), Software Test Managers' Roundtable, October 2000.Cem Kaner & Johanna Rothman, "Managing testing resources: Five suggestions for the project manager." PMI ISSIGreview, Vol. 10, Number 4 (October), 2000.
- Brian Marick, James Bach & Cem Kaner, "A manager's guide to evaluating test suites." 13th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, June, 2000.

+ Training 

- Cem Kaenr, "BBST: Evolving a course in black box software testing." [SLIDES] BBST Project Advisory Board Meeting, January 2008
- Cem Kaner. "Teaching testing: A skills-based approach." [SLIDES] 14th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, June, 2001.

- Cem Kaner & Sabrina Fay, "Teaching the black box testing course." Poster session, Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2004), Norfolk, VA, March 3-7, 2004. 
- Cem Kaner & Tim Coulter, "Creating an Open Certification Process,"Faculty Poster Session [POSTER page 1 page 2], Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2007), Covington, KY, March 2007.

- Cem Kaner, "Career development, education, training and certification." [SLIDES] Presentation at Progressive Insurance, July, 2006.
- Cem Kaner, "Teaching software testing." [SLIDES] Presented at a meeting of Finnish University teachers of software testing, at the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, May 5, 2004.
- Cem Kaner & Sowmya Padmanabhan, "Practice and transfer of learning in the teaching of software testing,"
- Cem Kaner, "Developing software testing courses for your staff" (Tutorial) [SLIDES] in Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October 2006. 
- Cem Kaner, "Open courseware and open certification in software testing," [SLIDES] Conference of the Indianapolis Quality Assurance Association, October, 2006.
[SLIDES] Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training, Dublin, July 2007. 
- Cem Kaner, "Creating Your Own In-House Software Testing Course." [SLIDES] Conference of the Association for Software Testing , Indianapolis, OH, June 2006.
- Andy Tinkham & Cem Kaner, "Experiences teaching a course in programmer testing." Agile 2005 Converence, Denver, CO, July 2005.
- Cem Kaner & Rebecca Fiedler, "Blended learning: A software testing course makeover." 11th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, FL, November 2005. 
- Cem Kaner & Rebecca Fiedler, "Adaptation & Implementation of an Activity-Based Online or Hybrid Course in Software Testing." Proposal to the National Science Foundation. Submitted January 10, 2007.
- Cem Kaner, "Teaching the software testing course." (Tutorial session) Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training 2004, Norfolk, CA March 3-7, 2004.
- Cem Kaner, "Teaching domain testing: A status report." [original, longer draft] Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training 2004, March 1-3, 2004.
- Cem Kaner, "Assessment in the software testing course." [SLIDES] Workshop on the Teaching of Software Testing (WTST), Melbourne, FL, February, 2003.