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Links to Useful Sites

These are some of the webpages we find useful - we cannot guarantee their availability or content, but these are sites which we visit and have found useful. We hope you do too. The list is added to all the time, at present the main areas are:

Specialist interest groups and organisations promoting quality and software testing:
American Productivity Quality Centre
American Society for Quality
British Quality Foundation
European Software Institute
European Quality Foundation
British Computer Society (BCS) - Including Special Interest Groups and ISEB
European Software Testing and Review conference (EuroSTAR)
Excellence Southeast
Software Engineering Institute
Software Management Forum
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Standards:
BCS SIGIST testing standards working party including draft non-functional testing standard
British Standards Institute
TickIT International - Online Journal
Tickit
ISO online
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Usability special interest groups and organisations promoting usability and accessibility:
British HCI Group
The World Wide Web Consortium
Usability - Human Factors Research Group UCC
Usability Government guideline
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Usability and accessibility standards and guidelines:
Ergoweb - Ergonomics Standards and Guidelines - ISO 9241
IBM-Ease of Use - ISO 9241
ESSI-SCOPE Quality Characteristics and their application - ISO 9126
Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines
RNIB Hints for designing accessible websites
Usability: Web accessability
Disability Discrimination Act
See It Right Accessible Website Scheme
Vision and Dyslexia
Lighthouse International - Effective Color Contrast - Designing for People with Partial Sight
Website that Simulates Colourblind Vision - contains tools
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Usability and accessibility techniques and methods:
Usability - Jacob Neilsen's web site includes Heuristics for User Interface Design
Usability - Gary Perlmans's Human Computer Interface web site
Usability - James Hom's web site lists methods
Usability Evaluation with the Cognitive Walkthrough
Usability and related methods - Action Research
Focus Groups - as a usability technique
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Usability sources:
Usability - Human Computer Interaction Resource Network
Designing as if People Mattered
Interface Hall of Shame
Usability assurance guides
Assuring Usability
HCI Bibliography Human-Computer Interaction
Web Accessibility Initiative General Information
Usability: UsabilityWeb
Usability Publications
List of Suppliers of Access Technology
List of Access Technology
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Articles about usability:
Usability: uiweb - essays about usability engineering and the web
E. Buie's Webspace -- Welcome to the Usability Section
BBC News DOT LIFE Keep the web simple, stupid
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Formal methods and critical software:
Formal Methods and Testing Networks (FORTEST)
Embedded Systems Club
Ada UK
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Techniques:
Objects and Components - Testing
Code coverage: articles on Code Coverage Analysis by Steve Cornett of Bullseye Testing Technology
 
Patterns:
Patterns, Learning about and the Patterns Community
Patterns, Test
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Emotional Intelligence:
Emotional Thinking: An Important Aspect of Emotional Intelligence Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
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Writers and test practitioners:
Hans Schaefers hjemmeside
Bret Pettichord's Software Testing Hotlist
Quality Tree Software, Inc. (Elizabeth Hendrickson)
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Sources articles and journals:
Software Testing Online Resources - MTSU (STORM)
SQP Journals Online
Softpanorama University Software Testing Links
Sticky Minds.com Article: Better Testing, Worse Quality
Quality Progress Magazine Online
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Our offices are in the west of England. We regularly provide our courses and services throughout the UK. We have worked in Europe and the USA.

For further information about any of our services or training courses, please contact:

sales@ietesting.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1905 726727
Fax: +44 (0) 1905 726766

or write to

Isabel Evans
IE Testing Consultancy Ltd
Restdale House
32/33 Foregate Street
Worcester WR1 1EE

United Kingdom


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