Testing Education

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• Rebecca L. Fiedler and Cem Kaner and, “Plagiarism-detection serfices: Do they work as well as we think?” IEEE Technology and Society, in press.

• Cem Kaner, “Investment Modeling as an Exemplar of Exploratory Test Automation.” [SLIDES] Keynote presented at the Vietnam International Software Testing and Automation Conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, September 2010.

• Cem Kaner & Sowmya Padmanabhan. “An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Domain Testing.” [SLIDES] Tutorial presented at the Vietnam International Software Testing and Automation Conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, September 2010.

• Cem Kaner, “Introduction to Skilled Exploratory Testing” [SLIDES] Presented at the Vietnam International Software Testing and Automation Conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, September 2010.

• Doug Hoffman & Cem Kaner, “Exploratory test automation.” [SLIDES] Conference of the Association for Software Testing, August 2010.

• Cem Kaner, “Scenario-Driven Testing.” [SLIDES] Tutorial at the Conference of the Association for Software Testing, August 2010.

• Cem Kaner & Sowmya Padmanabhan, “Unifying industrial and academic approaches to domain testing.” [SLIDES] Presented at the Conference of the Association for Software Testing, Grand Rapids, MI, August 2010.

• Cem Kaner, “Investment Modeling as an Exemplar of Exploratory Test Automation.” [SLIDES OR VIDEO] Presented at the Conference of the Association for Software Testing, Grand Rapids, MI, August 2010.

• Cem Kaner, “Investment Modeling: A Software Tester’s Perspective.” [SLIDES] Presented at Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association in Kitchener, ON. June 2010 at Toronto Association of Systems & Software Quality, June 2010.

• Cem Kaner, “The Evolving Law of Software Quality.” [SLIDES] Presented at Chicago Quality Assurance Assocation (CQAA/QAI), May 17, 2010.

• Cem Kaner, “Investment Modeling: A Software Tester’s Perspective.” [SLIDES] Presented at Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association in Kitchener, ON. June 2010

• Cem Kaner, “The Evolving Law of Software Quality.” [SLIDES] Presented at QAI in Toronto, ON. June 2010.

• Cem Kaner and Rebecca L. Fiedler, “A cautionary note on checking software engineering papers for plagiarism.” IEEE Transactions on Education, 51: 2. 184-188 May.

• Cem Kaner, “Software testing as a social science,”[SLIDES] STEP 2000 Workshop on Software Testing, Memphis, May 2008.

• Cem Kaner & Stephen J. Swenson, “Good enough V&V for simulations: Some possibly helpful thoughts from the law & ethics of commercial software.” Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Providence, RI, April 2008

• Cem Kaner, “Improve the power of your tests with risk-based test design.” [SLIDES] QAI QUEST Conference, Chicago, April 2008

• Cem Kaner, “A tutorial in exploratory testing.” [SLIDES] QAI QUEST Conference, Chicago, April 2008

• Cem Kaner, “Adapting Academic Course Materials in Software Testing for Industrial Professional Development.” [SLIDES] Colloquium, Florida Institute of Technology, March 2008

• Cem Kaner, “BBST: Evolving a course in black box software testing.” [SLIDES] BBST Project Advisory Board Meeting, January 2008

• Cem Kaner, “I speak for the user: The problem of agency in software development,” Quality Software & Testing Magazine, April 2007

• Cem Kaner, “The ongoing revolution in software testing,” [SLIDES] October 2007

• Cem Kaner, “Software-related measurement: Risks and opportunties,” [SLIDES] October 2007

• Cem Kaner & Sowmya Padmanabhan, “Practice and transfer of learning in the teaching of software testing,” [SLIDES] Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training, Dublin, July 2007.

• Cem Kaner, “Law of Software Contracting: New Rules Coming,” [SLIDES] Conference of the Association for Software Testing, Bellevue, WA, July 2007.

• 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 & 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, “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 “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.

• Cem Kaner, “The Nature of Exploratory Testing,” [SLIDES] Choices in IT conference. Columbus, OH, September, 2006.

• 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.

• Robert L. Glass, Ross Collard, Antonia Bertolino, James Bach, & Cem Kaner, “Software testing and industry needs,” IEEE Software, vol. 23, pp. 55-57, 2006.

• Cem Kaner, “Career development, education, training and certification.” [SLIDES] Presentation at Progressive Insurance, July, 2006.

• Cem Kaner, “Measuring the effectiveness of software testers.” [SLIDES] in Progressive Insurance. Cleveland, OH, 2006

• Cem Kaner, “Exploratory testing after 23 years.” [SLIDES] [Keynote address] Conference of the Association for Software Testing, June 6, 2006.

• Cem Kaner, “Creating Your Own In-House Software Testing Course.” [SLIDES] Conference of the Association for Software Testing , Indianapolis, OH, June 2006.

• Cem Kaner, “Ethics and values in science, engineering and technology.” Proposal to the National Science Foundation. Approved for funding in July 2006.

• Cem Kaner, “Curriculum & Course Design: Business Computing Curriculum as a Synergy Between Management, Software Engineering and Information Technology.” [SLIDES] April 2006

• Cem Kaner, “Curricular support for software testing.” Proposal to the National Science Foundation. This was not approved for funding in 2006 but it is the best current statement of my teaching-related research goals.

• Cem Kaner, “Notes for the Workshop on Combination Testing.” [SLIDES] Workshop on Combination Testing, Seattle, WA, January 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, “Fundamental issues in software metrics.” [Tutorial] Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC 2006), Montreal, Canada, January 19-21, 2006

• 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, “Inside out: A computer science course gets a makeover.” [SLIDES] Association for Educational Communications & Technology International Conference, Orlando FL, October 2005.

• Ajay Jha, “A Risk Catalog for Mobile Applications.” (Master’s Thesis in Software Engineering) Department of Computer Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, February, 2007.

• Andy Tinkham & Cem Kaner, “Experiences Teaching a Course in Programmer Testing” [SLIDES] Agile 2005 Conference, Denver, CO, July 24-29, 2005.

• Cem Kaner, “The ongoing revolution in software testing” [SLIDES] Software Test & Performance Conference, Baltimore, MD, December 7-9, 2004.

• Cem Kaner, “Legal Issues Included in the Outsourcing of Testing” [SLIDES]

• Cem Kaner, “Liability for defective content” ACM SIGDOC’04, Memphis, TN, October 10–13, 2004.

• Cem Kaner & Walter P. Bond, “Software engineering metrics: What do they measure and how do we know?“

• 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, “Grading the Ethics Essay.” (CSE 3030 Legal, Ethical & Social Issues) Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 2004.

• Sowmya Padmanabhan, “Domain Testing: Divide and Conquer.” [appendix in zip format] (Master’s Thesis) Department of Computer Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, May 2004.

• 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 & James Bach, “The nature of exploratory testing.” [SLIDES], Tampere, Finland, May 7, 2004.

• 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, “The past and future of software testing.” [SLIDES] Software Testing Day, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, May 4, 2004.

• Cem Kaner, “Accountability for defects in commercial software: Controversy over the ground rules” [SLIDES] Colloquium at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, April 7, 2004.

• Cem Kaner, “Teaching domain testing: A status report.” [original, longer draft] Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training 2004, March, 2004.

• Cem Kaner, “Carts before horses: Using preparatory exercises to motivate lecture material” [SLIDES] Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, Melbourne FL, February 2004.

• Cem Kaner, “Literature reviews.” [SLIDES] Unpublished presentation, Florida Institute of Technology, January 23, 2004.

• Andy Tinkham & Cem Kaner, “Learning styles and exploratory testing.” Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October 2003.

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

• Ajay Jha & Cem Kaner, ” Bugs in the brave new unwired world.” Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October 2003.

• Cem Kaner, “Liability for defective documentation.” [SLIDES] ACM SIGDOC 2003, San Francisco, CA, October 12-15, 2003.

• Cem Kaner, “The power of ‘What If…’ and nine ways to fuel your imagination: Cem Kaner on scenario testing.” Software Testing and Quality Engineering Magazine, Vol. 5, Issue 5 (Sep/Oct), p. 16-22, 2003. Original (more complete) version.

• 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.

• Giri Vijayaraghavan & Cem Kaner, “Bug taxonomies: Use them to generate better tests.” [SLIDES] Software Testing, Analysis & Review Conference (Star East), Orlando, FL, May, 2003. (Received the Best Paper Award at STAR).

• Andy Tinkham & Cem Kaner, “Exploring exploratory testing.” [SLIDES] Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May, 2003.

• Cem Kaner, “Measuring the effectiveness of software testers.” [SLIDES] Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May, 2003.
• Cem Kaner, “What is a good test case?” [SLIDES] Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference (STAR) East, Orlando, FL, May, 2003.
• Cem Kaner, “Fundamental challenges in software testing.” [SLIDES] Colloquium Presentation at Butler University, April 2003.

• Cem Kaner, “The UCITA amendments: What do they mean?” Uniform Commercial Code Bulletin, March, p. 1 ff, 2003.

• Cem Kaner, “Assessment in the software testing course.” [SLIDES] Workshop on the Teaching of Software Testing (WTST), Melbourne, FL, February, 2003.
• Cem Kaner, “Dimensions of Excellence in a Dissertation.” Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 2002.

• Cem Kaner, “Sexual harassment in the workplace.” [SLIDES] Association of Women in Computing, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, December 2002.

• Cem Kaner, “The proposed Florida Tech stored course policy.” Computer Graphics, Vol. 36, Issue 2, p. 15-17. 21-22, 2002.

• Cem Kaner, “XP, Iterative development, and the testing community.” (Featured column) www.stickyminds.com, October 21, 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, (2002) “Effective bug reporting.” [SLIDES] (Tutorial session) 15th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, September, 2002.

• 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, & James Bach (2002) “Developing your testing approach: A context-driven analysis.” [SLIDES] (Keynote address) Rational User Conference, Orlando, FL, August 2002.

• Cem Kaner, “UCITA: A disaster in progress.” IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 39, Issue 8 (August), p. 13-15, 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, “A Taxonomy of E-Commerce Risks and Failures.” (Master’s Thesis) Department of Computer Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, May 2002.

• Giri Vijayaraghavan & Cem Kaner, “Bugs in your shopping cart: A taxonomy.” [SLIDES] 15th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, 2002. (Best Paper Award at Quality Week.)

• Cem Kaner, “Issues in commercial law of interest to software engineering educators.” [SLIDES] (Tutorial session.) Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training, Cincinnati OH, February 2002.

• 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