Wednesday – September 14, 2011
LOCATION:
Austin Community College (ACC) Highland Business Center (HBC)
6:00 – 6:30 PM - Networking Time
6:30 – 7:30 PM - Main Speaker Presentation
7:30 – 7:45 PM - Announcements
7:45 – 8:00 PM - Door Prizes
TOPIC: “Multi-dimensional Testing with Business System Integration”
BIO:
Forrest Breyfogle is a Professional Engineer and ASQ Fellow who founded Smarter Solutions in 1992. Mr. Breyfogle has authored or co-authored thirteen books, published over 150 technical articles for a wide range of publications, and has been interviewed by television, radio, and publication editors about managing the dynamics of organizations and the application of all forms of enterprise improvement methodologies. Mr. Breyfogle began his career with IBM in development and later transferred to the product test organization. Within these organizations he became very interested in the benefits derived from the wise use of statistical techniques. From 1980 to 1992 he served IBM in applying Six Sigma methodology” to testing, development, manufacturing, and service organizations.
Mr. Breyfogle has conducted numerous Lean Six Sigma workshop sessions as well as Master Black Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt, Champion, and Executive training sessions throughout the world. He has coached an array of individuals and organizations on the wise application of Lean and Six Sigma techniques. Smarter Solutions, Inc. has had the honor of serving a distinguished group of Fortune 100 clients and many others in a wide variety of industries.
Mr. Breyfogle was named Quality Professional of the Year for 2011 by Quality Magazine. He also received the prestigious Crosby Medal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) in 2004 for an earlier book, Implementing Six Sigma (second edition). He serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Texas Center for Performance Excellence.
TOPIC:
With computer software and hardware testing, often logic pass/fail failures occur because of combinational issues. For example, one state of a factor may not work when exercised in unison with particular state conditions of two other factors.
It is typically impossible to test all possible combinations of input parameters when trying to ensure that no one combination can cause a failure. Multi-dimensional testing is an approach for efficiently testing a logic pass/fail response given multiple combinational input considerations. With this strategy, a carefully selected small number of possible subset factor combinations can yield a satisfactory test of combinational effects (not to be confused with interaction effects). For this test methodology, several quantifiable “test coverage” statements are available. A computer program can be used to provide test designs for any number of factors and levels considerations.
It will be also shown how this test methodology can be integrated within an overall enhanced business management system, which, among other things, provides predictive scorecards.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Forrest W. Breyfogle III
President and CEO, Smarter Solutions, Inc.
Forrest@SmarterSolutions.com
512-918-0280
