Currently Available Program Testing Tools: Technology abd Experience

Complementing the 1975 International Cnference on Reliable Soft-held April 21-23 in Los Angeles (see May Computer), a workshop was held April 24-25 to survey the current status of program testing tools. Co- sponsored by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on Software Engineering), the workshop was held at the Airport Marina in Los Angeles on 24-25 April 1975. Attendance was 160 and represented many diverse interests. The fact that software is rapidly becoming recognized, by those outside as well as inside the programming profession, as one of the most complex human activities yet undertaken–set the stage for the discussions which emerged.