The AMERICAN SOFTWARE TESTING QUALIFICATIONS BOARD (ASTQB™) is an independent, non-profit organization formed to support and promote the ISTQB Certified Tester™ program in the United States. The ASTQB offers proctored examinations for those seeking ISTQB Certified Tester-Foundation Level and ISTQB Certified Tester-Advanced Level certifications.

Better Software is the magazine for software professionals who care about quality. Each issue brings you relevant, timely information to help you build better software. Continuing to deliver in-depth articles on testing, tools, defect tracking, metrics, and management, it's the only commercial magazine exclusively dedicated to software professionals.

Whether developed in-house, acquired or outsourced, today's businesses and government agencies depend on software for their business and mission success. When applications are not secure and reliable, the organization will fail.

At Cigital, we specialize in software security and quality. For over a decade, our expert consultants have implemented programs that assure our clients' software is secure and reliable while enabling them to dramatically improve how they build and deploy software. Cigital's strategic advisors wrote the books on software security and quality with such publications as, Exploiting Software, Building Secure Software, and Software Assessment.

IDT's Focus: IDT understands the complex information technology needs of its customers and the importance of forward-thinking approaches towards testing strategies and implementations. We focus on adapting commercial concepts, applications and tools to enable capabilities to be tested and certified for use by the warfighter. Our vision is to be a leading provider of testing strategies and implementations which enable end-to-end capability improvements to be delivered rapidly.

The Indianapolis Quality Assurance Association Inc. is a non-profit organization that was formed February, 2004 to promote quality practices and highlight the Quality Assurance Profession within central Indiana. The association is governed by a Board of Directors and provides many benefits to members.  Our main objective for members is to provide education, share knowledge and network with other Quality Assurance professionals.

iTKO LISA software is the most complete solution for testing and validating Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous(tm) software quality, from development, to QA and business analysts. iTKO LISA SOA Testing Framework performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, without requiring test coding or script maintenance, saving up to 80% of testing costs.

LISA gives everyone the "Freedom-to-Test" websites, web services (WSDL/SOAP), Java objects and servers, .NET, ESB/messaging, databases, and many more custom and legacy technologies exactly as they are deployed. iTKO customers include Sun, Citigroup, Cardinal Health, AMD, TIBCO and i2.

NetSecurity is a hands-on security consulting and training company. We work with you to understand the unique security challenges, goals, and requirements of your business. We then provide tailored, high quality, customer-focused, and cost-effective solutions to protect you against emerging security threats and manage your enterprise security risk proactively. Our proprietary "Hands-On How-To®" security training provides you knowledge of real-world security issues through simulated and "how-to" exercises that enable you do your job successfully, saving you retraining costs and time.

Based in Sterling, Virginia, and Boston, Massachusetts, NetSecurity is privately owned and managed by a core team of diverse professionals with expertise acquired from working at premier organizations such as Sallie Mae, Verisign, Network Associates, Trusted Information Systems, NFR Security, and leading Federal integrators. Our distinguished advisory board is made up of business leaders and seasoned IT professionals.

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

• Efficient testing of Web 2.0 applications, including AJAX and web-services;
• Advanced test modeling, including object-oriented (keyword) load testing;
• Ease of adoption and use, including brief JavaScript test scripts, DOM usage, and a simple and affordable licensing.

Valiance Partners is a software, data migration, and quality assurance company specializing in content intensive and regulated business environments.

Valiance TRUcompare™ is an automated testing product that speeds the verification of data and/or content migrated from one or more sources to a destination application.

With TRUcompare, the familiar but highly iterative and labor-intensive sampling techniques and procedural trial and error approaches to migration testing and validation are now obsolete. Instead, TRUcompare rapidly tests 100% of migration results and reports any errors or deviations from its specification.