Thank You for Answering the Call
The 2020 Call for Proposals brought in a wealth of submissions for this year’s conference. 

Despite an ongoing pandemic, quarantine, and economic stress, you all really stepped up to share your tips, tricks, and techniques for improving software quality. Our Program Committee reports that abstract topics included AI, agile testing, improved automation, and cultural awareness, among others. 

The Program Committee will confirm with the authors by the end of May. More details are coming in June on specific presentations for PNSQC 2020.

We’ll Be (Virtually) Seeing You in October
With such a great group of submissions for the Call for Proposals, the board is excited for PNSQC this year, with one big update: It will be a virtual conference!

Here in Portland, all large gatherings are still banned due to COVID-19, for the foreseeable future. Even if this mandate is lifted in coming weeks, we have the health and safety of our community of attendees, speakers, and volunteers in mind, and don’t want to risk an in-person conference for 2020. 

The board and committee members are hard at work organizing the details of this event, to bring the best aspects of PNSQC to a digital platform. 

We’re still planning on the conference to take place October 12-14, 2020, with a modified schedule and activities being announced in June. Be sure to check your email inbox for more information, or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to get updates as they happen.

PNSQC: More than a Conference
The “C” in PNSQC stands for “Conference,” but this organization is so much more than that.

Our mission of “Achieving higher quality software through knowledge exchange” applies year round.

As an organization, we host webinars, sponsor food for meetups, and coach and support new presenters. We also have 37 years of conference talks and papers in our Archives that cover a wide range of processes, technologies, approaches to management, and everything you need to create quality software. 

The “C” in PNSQC definitely also stands for “Community.”

In our latest blog post, read about ways to stay connected, problem solve, and exchange knowledge by joining the PNSQC community.

PNSQC Appreciation
“I love all the different tracks — the variety was perfect. I wish there were 3 of me! The papers I’ve read so far were very high quality and I can’t wait to read more.”


2019 PNSQC Poster Paper Presenter