RAVENFLOW CEO TO PRESENT BEST PRACTICES FOR TESTING SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS AT STAREAST

Dr. Joe Marasco will Explore Techniques for Defining, Communicating and Validating Requirements

ORLANDO, STAREAST Conference—May 17, 2007—Ravenflow, the only company delivering automated requirements validation for application development organizations, today announced that president and CEO Joe Marasco will present a session on requirements testing techniques at the STAREAST 2007 conference, taking place this week at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando. Marasco’s presentation, "Testing Requirements: Ensuring Quality Before the Coding Begins," is scheduled today, Thursday, May 17, at 9:45 a.m. Details are as follows:

Who: Dr. Joe Marasco, President and CEO, Ravenflow
What: "Testing Requirements: Ensuring Quality Before the Coding Begins"
Where: STAREAST 2007, Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida.
When: Thursday, May 17, 2007, 9:45-10:45 a.m., ET

According to Marasco, requirements errors are the number one cause of software project failures, yet many organizations continue to create requirements specifications that are unclear, ambiguous and incomplete. The problem is that requirements quality often gets lost in translation between business people who think in words and software architects and engineers who prefer visual models. In his session, Marasco will discuss practical approaches for testing requirements to verify that they are complete, accurate and precise. He will additionally discuss why common requirements specification techniques fail, how to bridge the requirements "communications gap" and techniques for measuring quality.

Produced by Software Quality Engineering, STAREAST 2007 (Software Testing, Analysis & Review) explores the latest trends, technologies and strategies for test management, automation, SOA testing, model-based testing, and many of the other hot-topics in the industry. Experts will share their insight in a technical program that includes 22 in-depth preconference tutorials, six keynote presentations and 43 concurrent sessions covering critical testing issues and real-world approaches to solving them for the beginner to advanced professional. More information can be found at: http://www.sqe.com/STAREAST/.

Marasco is a 35-year software industry veteran and author of The Software Development Edge: Essays on Managing Successful Projects, published in 2005 by Addison-Wesley. Prior to taking the helm at Ravenflow, he served as senior vice president of Rational Software Corporation until it was acquired by IBM in 2003.

About Software Quality Engineering
Software Quality Engineering assists software professionals and organizations interested in boosting productivity, improving software practices, delivering more customer value, and increasing ROI. Software Quality Engineering hosts three of the industry’s most recognized software quality conferences including the STAR conference series and the Better Software Conference & EXPO. From the classroom to the Web, Software Quality Engineering delivers software testing and development training courses, and provides consulting services, specialized publications, and research. http://www.sqe.com.

About Ravenflow
The award-winning Ravenflow is revolutionizing the way that software requirements and business processes are developed and validated. Because requirements errors are the primary cause of project failure and budget and schedule overruns, enterprises need to detect and correct requirements errors early. Ravenflow’s Requirements Authoring and Validation Environment (RAVEN) automatically generates visual models from plain English text. Customers across all business sectors, including ADP, Charles Schwab, Citco, Kaiser Permanente and the World Savings Bank are using RAVEN to deliver software developed for the most valid and precise business requirements.



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