About SQM:
Software development, software testing, and quality assurance are technically and organizationally challenging, but quality does not need to be coerced. When done properly, testing and quality assurance contribute to making tasks simpler and more effective, thus lowering costs by enabling everyone to work more efficiently.
Established in 1990 and located in Silicon Valley, SQM helps produce better quality software by providing organizations with management consulting and training. SQM specializes in strategies and tactics for transformation of software development and quality assurance organizations. This includes organizational assessment, change management, technical analysis for testing of systems, and training. The President and Principal Consultant, Doug Hoffman, has extensive experience with systems and software throughout the computer industry.
SQM focuses on client success and satisfaction. Each organization and product has unique technical, organizational, and user contexts. Therefore, we evaluate the context to determine appropriate solutions, tools, and methods tailored for their context, not preconceived notions about what solutions are appropriate.
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Doug co-authored the Domain Testing Workbook
with Cem Kaner and Sowmya Padmanabhan. The book contains nearly 500 pages describing equivalence class analysis (a.k.a. domain analysis); the most widely taught (but superficially treated) software testing technique. The technique is used to dramatically reduce the number of tests required while at the same time making the tests more powerful. Standard training on equivalence class analysis does not extend to analysis of real problems like printer configuration dialogues, open file options, or sorting. The workbook describes a systematic method for equivalence analysis with exercises and 30 fully worked out examples of real-world testing problems.
