The Quality Special Interest Group of the British Computer Society presents the edited proceedings of their sixth International Conference on Software Quality Management (SQM'98) held in April 1998 in Amsterdam. The objective of this series of annual conferences is to promote international co-operation among those concerned with software quality and process improvement, by creating a greater understanding of software quality issues and by sharing current research and industrial experience. The papers cover a broad spectrum of practical experience and research. The topic areas include process improvement, maintaining a quality management system, quality metrics, human factors, project management issues, software tools and approaches to systems development. The organisers would like to thank Origin for their sponsorship of the proceedings. The editors are indebted to the members of the International Advisory Committee for their support and for refereeing the abstracts and the final papers, as well as to the authors who have contributed to the success of this conference.

Section 1: Process Improvement.- ASTERIX Introduction of a Process Improvement using Tools to Support System Testing.- Practical Process Improvement Meets DSP Software Development.- Bootstrap 3.0 - Software Process Assessment Methodology.- A Qualitative Approach to Organisational Goal Setting for Information Systems Development.- Section 2: Quality in Software Development.- Experience with Software Quality / Usability Metrics.- Improving Information Systems Development by Managing Project Risk.- Information Quality Supported By Meta Model.- Quality and RAD: A Contradiction In Terms?.- Transient Quality Performance within the 'SPAN' of new Software Development Process and Technology Establishment.- Providing Support for the Integration of Structured Methods and Quality Management Systems.- Section 3: Object Oriented Issues.- Can You Have It All?": Managing the Time and Budget Against Quality Issue in a Dynamic Business Object Architecture Development.- Object-Oriented Software Development with Reuse.- Integration of Strategic, Tactical and Technical OO Measurement.- Section 4: Software Tools.- A Lotus Notes Implementation of a Workflow Automation Tool for ISO 9001 Certification.- Automatic Software Evaluation Based on Domain Knowledge and Formal Evaluation Specification.- Section 5: Quality Issues.- Australian Software Developers Embrace QA Certification.- Management Systems: The End of the Beginning?.- Can Quality Survive Amidst Adversity?.- An Analysis of Obsolesence Risk in IT Systems.- Constructing Standards for Cross-Platform Operation.- The Practical Use and Abuse of Software Metrics.- A Quality Software Process for Rapid Application Development.- An Integrated Model for Impact Analysis of Software Change.- Metrics for Estimation.- Author Index.