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GrammaTech, Inc.
Paul Anderson (paul@grammatech))
is VP of Engineering at GrammaTech, a spin-off of Cornell University that specializes
in static analysis. He received his B.Sc. from Kings College, University of London
and his Ph.D. in computer science from City University London. Paul manages GrammaTech’s
engineering team and is the product manager for CodeSurfer, and CodeSonar. He has
helped a wide variety of organizations, including NASA, the FDA, the FAA, MITRE,
Draper Laboratory, GE, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, apply automated code analysis
to critical projects. Paul has worked in the software industry for 16 years, with
most of his experience focused on developing static-analysis, automated-testing,
and program-transformation tools. A significant portion of his work has involved
applying program analysis to improve security. His research on static analysis tools
and techniques has been reported in numerous articles, journal publications, book
chapters, and international conferences. http://www.grammatech.com
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Quardev, Inc.
Jon Bach is senior consultant and Manager for Corporate
Intellect at Quardev, Inc., a Seattle outsource test lab where he manages testing
projects ranging from a few days to several months using Rapid Testing techniques.
In 2000, Jon and his brother James invented Session-Based Test Management for managing
and measuring exploratory testing. In his thirteen years of testing, Jon has been
a test contractor, full-time test manager, and consultant for companies such as
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. He has written articles for both Better Software
and Computer magazines.
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Bender RBT, Inc.
Richard Bender has been involved in test and evaluation
since 1969. He has authored and coauthored books and courses on quality assurance
and test, software development lifecycles, analysis and design, software maintenance,
and project management. He has worked with an international clientele in a wide
range of industries from financial to academic.
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Liquidnet Holdings, Inc.
Bernie Berger has been testing software at Wall Street firms for over 15 years and
is currently testing algorithmic trading strategies at Liquidnet, the world’s largest
independent global liquidity pool. Prior to his current position, Bernie was an
independent consultant specializing in software quality and testing. Bernie is a
Director of the Association for Software Testing (AST), and is the founder of the
Software Testing in Financial Services Workshop (STiFS). You can contact Bernie
at bberger@liquident.com
or bernie@testassured.com
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Capital One
Marc S. Bloom heads up Data Warehouse and Analytics Platform Testing for Capital
One. He is an experienced IT Director, Project Manager and Quality Assurance professional
with expertise implementing enterprise-level solutions. Accomplishments include
integrating complex technology and infrastructure solutions for core financial services
and customer management systems. Before joining Capital One in 1998, Marc spent
10 years as a certified systems engineering consultant deploying and supporting
large-scale network solutions for Fortune 500 corporations. Marc holds a Bachelor’s
degree from James Madison University and a Master’s certificate from George Washington.
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DevelopSense
Michael Bolton is the co-author (with senior author James Bach) of Rapid Software
Testing, a course that presents a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly
in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Michael has over 17 years
of experience in the computer industry testing, developing, managing, and writing
about software. He was with Quarterdeck Corporation for eight years, delivering
the company's flagship products and directing project and testing teams worldwide.
Michael has been teaching software testing and presenting at conferences around
the world for eight years. He is Program Chair for the Toronto Association of System
and Software Quality, and a co-founder of the Toronto Workshops on Software Testing.
He has a regular column in Better Software Magazine and writes for Quality Software
(the magazine published by TASSQ). He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and
two children. Michael can be reached through his Web site, http://www.developsense.com.
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The Hartford Insurance Group
Carol Borowski, VP of the ADM (Application Development and Maintenance) division
at The Hartford has been in the forefront of establishing and managing a shared
testing center for her own organization and has firsthand experience with the
associated challenges and benefits.http://www.thehartford.com.
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Questcon Technologies
Shaun Bradshaw joined Questcon Technologies, an IT firm specializing in Quality
Assurance and Software Testing consulting in 1997. As the director of quality solutions,
he works with clients in various industries, advising, teaching, and mentoring them
on the use of effective testing and test management techniques such as modular test
case design, test metrics, the S-Curve, and the Zero Bug Bounce. Shaun is the co-author
and editor of the QuestAssured® Service Methodologies, as well as the primary creator
of the methodology training classes offered by Questcon. He has been a featured
speaker at local and national QA and Testing conferences including Software Testing
Analysis & Review (STAREAST), Quality Assurance Institute (QAI), Software Test &
Performance Conference (STPCon) and PSQT. Shaun received his B.S. in Information
Systems with a minor in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
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IBM
Brian Bryson, Technical Evangelist, IBM Rational Quality Management. At IBM Rational,
Brian Bryson is a member of the quality management team that plans and delivers
IBM Rational's software quality toolset. Prior to joining the IBM Rational group
in 1995, Brian spent several years in Quality Assurance. Holding various positions
from Tester to QA Manager, Brian studied and developed the best practices required
to implement effective quality automation. A certified management accountant and
former instructor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, Brian has delivered
IBM Rational's message of software quality throughout the lifecycle to both students
and quality professionals. Brian blogs at http://rationaltester.wordpress.com
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LogiGear
Hans Buwalda is an internationally recognized expert
in test development and testing technology management. He was the first to create
an integrated keyword-driven approach, which he named “testing with action
words”, now widely used throughout the testing industry. Originally from the
Netherlands, Hans now lives and works in California as CTO of LogiGear Corporation,
directing the development of Action Based Testing™ methodology for test automation
and its supporting TestArchitect™ toolset. He is coauthor of Integrated
Test Design and Automation and a frequent speaker at international conferences.
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The Mathworks, Inc.
Andy Campbell hails from the west coast of the United States, living in such metro
areas as Los Angeles, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas. He received a BS
in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Pacific in 2001, which was
followed by an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering
from the University of California, Davis in 2003. Andy now lives in central Massachusetts
and has worked at the MathWorks for the last four years, three of which he has spent
in Quality Engineering. As a Quality Engineer he has been responsible for the qualification
of the Control System Toolbox and Simulink Control Design, and other toolboxes.
Andy has recently moved to the Testing Infrastructure and Architecture team, contributing
in that role to the GUI testing infrastructure and to long term organizational efforts
of the test tools infrastructure. While such work keeps him intrigued, busy, and
challenged during the work week, Andy really just lives for his wife and three children.
He can be contacted at
Andy.Campbell@mathworks.com
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IBM
David Chadwick has worked in operating systems, computer architecture, and distributed
programming models. For the last twenty years, David has specialized in the development
of performance testing technology. He has worked in product development and support,
technical services, customer training, and in pre-sales working with customers.
Recently he was project leader and primary author for the IBM Redbook called Using
Rational Performance Tester version 7. His educational background includes two BS
degrees (EE & CS) from NC State University, an MSEE in Computer Engineering from
Stanford, and completed PhD coursework at Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Software Quality Engineering
Lee Copeland has more than thirty-five years of experience
as a consultant, instructor, author, and information systems professional. He has
held a number of technical and managerial positions with commercial and non-profit
organizations in the areas of applications development, software testing, and software
development process improvement. Lee frequently speaks at software conferences both
in the United States and internationally and currently serves as Program Chair for
the Better Software Conference & Expo and the STAR testing conferences, and
SQE’s new Agile Development Practices conference. Lee is the author of
A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, a compendium of the most effective
methods of test case design.
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Software Quality Engineering
A frequent speaker at testing conferences, Rick Craig
is recognized worldwide as an expert test and evaluation instructor with Software
Quality Engineering. He has implemented and managed testing efforts on large-scale,
traditional, and embedded systems, and co-authored a study that benchmarked industry-wide
processes. Rick is co-author of the reference book Systematic Software
Testing.
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ePlan Services, Inc.
A tester on agile teams since 2000, Lisa Crispin currently
works as a tester at ePlan Services Inc., developing Web-based financial applications
using XP and Scrum. She leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences
in the US and Europe. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to
publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and
Tools. Lisa co-authored Testing Extreme Programming with Tip House, and is co-writing
Agile Testing: The Tester Role in Agile Development with Janet Gregory. For more
about Lisa’s work, visit her Web sites: http://lisa.crispin.home.att.net and www.agiletester.ca.
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Questcon Technologies
David Dang joined Questcon Technologies in 1999. David is a Mercury Interactive
Certified Instructor (CI) for QuickTest Professional, WinRunner, and QualityCenter.
As director of automation practices, David works with clients to assess, define,
and implement automation strategies to maximize the clients’ returns on investment
for automation tools and minimize automated script maintenance. David is the author
of the QuestAssured® Test Automation Methodology and the lead test automation instructor
at the Questcon headquarters in Greensboro. David has been a featured speaker on
test automation and related topics at local and national QA and Testing conferences
including Quality Assurance Institute (QAI), StarEast, STP Con and PSQT. David received
his B.S. in Management Information Systems and B.A. in Psychology from the University
of Buffalo.
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Mentora Group
Dan Downing is a co-founder and VP of Testing Services
at Mentora, an application testing and managed hosting company. Dan is the author
of the 5-Steps of Load Testing, which he taught at Mercury Ed Centers, and of numerous
presentations, white papers and articles on performance testing. He teaches load
testing and over the past ten years has led more than 100 performance projects on
applications ranging from eCommerce to ERP and companies ranging from startups to
global enterprises. He is a regular presenter at STAR, HP/Mercury, Software Test
and Performance, and Workshop on Performance Testing (WOPR) conferences.
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IBM
Mark Duquette is the System Test Architect for IBM Rational Software’s Team products.
During his career in software, he has held positions in technical support and product
development with a majority of time spent in test. Mark’s primary focus is on the
overall consumability of software and incorporating customer data into persistent
test systems.
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Accenture
Mike Ennis is a quality management expert with more
than seventeen years of industry experience specializing in quality assessments,
risk analysis, development, and testing in distributed systems environments. As
a quality consultant, Mike has worked with several Fortune 100 companies such as
IBM, Compaq, BMC Software, and Intuit, and tested a variety of applications in industries
including financial services, pharmaceutical, energy, and telecommunications. Mike
is a popular speaker at testing conferences including STAR EAST, STARWEST,
and Better Software Conference & EXPO.
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Testing Solutions Group
A Principal Consultant at Testing Solutions Group,
Isabel Evans has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry,
working in quality management, testing, training, and documentation for organizations
and projects of all sizes in the financial, communications, and software sectors.
She divides her time between software quality (consultancy, project work, training,
writing), and gardening. Isabel has spoken on software quality, testing and test
management at conferences in the UK, Europe and the USA. Her book, Achieving
Software Quality Through Teamwork was published by Artech in June 2004. She is a
Certified IT Professional and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
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Social Security Administration
David Fern is a seasoned software testing professional with more than 8 years of
experience breaking software in the public and private industry. Currently he is
an automation test engineer and software testing technical lead at the Social Security
Administration. He has developed and implemented software testing strategies for
large government Internet application deployments as well as enterprise wide point
of sale systems in the private sector. He has trained and mentored teams on processes
and strategies for testing new technologies such as Web Services. David has had
multiple articles published and given various presentations on a variety of software
testing processes and techniques including “How Testers Can and Should Drive the
Development Cycles” and “Making the Most of the Beta Process”. Currently he is leading
a team in building an integrated automation test architecture supporting complete
end to end testing of GUI, Mainframe, database and Web Service applications.
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Philips Lifeline
Jan Fish has more than 30 years of experience in test, software systems, process
improvement and change management for organizations of all sizes in financial and
software fields. Currently a manager of test and process improvement at Philips
Lifeline (http://philips.com;
jan.fish@philips.com;),
she has found a way to track and measure test progress. Now when business partners
ask “Are we on track with testing?” the answer is no longer a shot from the hip
or best guess. The answer is a provable n% and it takes minutes a day to gather
the supporting metrics. The biggest benefit is the drastic improvement to estimating
test time on the upcoming projects. Jan also partners with project teams to identify
and implement process improvements that range from improved traceability to implementing
peer reviews to running production readiness testing during the systems acceptance
process (shaving weeks off project time lines). She is an advocate of honest and
accurate over-all product status from the test point of view as well as partnering
with teams to recommend next steps based on current goals.
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HP
Matt Fisher is a Security Engineer for HP Software. Prior to HP, Matt was a Senior Security Engineer for S.P.I. Dynamics, Inc. acquired by HP in August 2007. He has been specializing in web application security assessments for many years, and has over 13 years experience in the information technology industry. A native Washingtonian, he has performed countless assessments of web applications within the DoD, the Federal Government, as well as some of the largest commercial institutions around the globe. Matt has spoken on the topic of web application security at numerous. In addition, he is a published author on the topic of web application security and testing. He is a contributing author to the book titled, Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, and is currently working on his own book titled, Web Application Security: A Guide for Developers and Penetration Testers.
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Hewlett-Packard
A consultant at Hewlett-Packard, John Fodeh has several
years of experience in the field of software testing, quality management, and process
improvement. He has been a key person in a Software Process Improvement (SPI) project
establishing a metrics program to support the release decision basis. John is an
active member of a Danish special interest group in software testing. He has given
presentations at a number of seminars and conferences including STAREAST, STARWEST,
EuroSPI, EuroSTAR, and at the BCS' SIGIST. John holds a MSc. from the Technical
University of Denmark and a Practitioner certificate in software testing.
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Grove Consultants
With more than eighteen years of experience in the
IT industry Julie Gardiner has spent time as an analyst programmer, Oracle DBA,
and project manager. She has first hand experience as a test analyst, test team
leader, test consultant, and test manager. At Grove Consultants Julie provides consultancy
and training in all aspects of testing, specializing in risk-based testing, agile
testing, test management, and people issues. She is a certified SCRUM master. Julie
won best presentation at STAREAST 2007 and 2005; best presentation at BCS SIGiST
2005; and best tutorial at EuroSTAR 2006.
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Gerrard Consulting
Paul Gerrard is the founder and principal of Gerrard
Consulting, a services company focused on increasing the success rate of IT projects.
He has conducted assignments in all aspects of Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
Paul founded the ISEB Tester Certificate Board in the UK and is the host/organizer
of the UK Test Management Forum and Summit conferences. A regular speaker at conferences
in the UK, Europe, and the US, Paul has won “Best Presentation” prizes
at both EuroSTAR and BCS SIGIST. With Neil Thompson, Paul wrote Risk-Based
E-Business Testing.
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DragonFire, Inc.
Janet Gregory is a Calgary-based consultant specializing building quality systems
and her passion is promoting agile quality processes. She has helped to introduce
development agile practices into companies as tester or coach, and has successfully
transitioned traditional test teams into the agile world. Her focus is working the
business users and testers to understand their role in agile projects. She is currently
writing a book on agile testing with Lisa Crispin due out in early 2009. Janet has
presented at the Agile and StarWest conference several times and is active in the
Agile Testing community. Janet has a degree in Computing Science from the University
of Alberta, an Information Management Certificate from the University of Calgary,
Scrum Master Certification, as well as Quality Management Certification from the
ASQ.
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NetObjectives
Bob Hartman is Net Objectives' Vice President of Business
Development and Marketing who also does training and coaching for the company. In
addition to having Bachelor and Masters degrees in Computer Science, Bob has over
30 years of experience developing software, including 7 years running his own consulting
company and 14+ years of experience at the VP of Development level or higher.
Bob also has a unique talent in breaking software within the first 10 minutes of
using it. Bob has served in every role in the software industry including
developer, tester, documentation writer, trainer, manager and executive. He
is also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and does additional training and coaching
in the area of agile development. Bob teaches courses on Lean Agile Testing,
Implementing Scrum, and Lean Software Development among others.
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Quality Tree Software
In the software industry since 1984, Elisabeth Hendrickson
has held positions as a tester, programmer, test automation manager, quality engineering
director, and technical writer working for companies ranging from a twenty-person
startup to a large multi-national software vendor. In 2003, Elisabeth became involved
with the agile community, became a Certified Scrum Master, and in 2006 joined the
board of directors of the Agile Alliance. Today, Elisabeth splits her time between
teaching, speaking, writing, and working on Extreme Programming teams with test-infected
programmers who value her obsession with testing.
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EDS – Global Testing Practice
With twenty-five years of involvement in the development
of IT solutions and fifteen years of testing experience, Susan Herrick is currently
a Testing Architect and corporate leader of Testing Management and Consulting for
the Global Testing Capability at EDS. She provides expertise, leadership, and guidance
in “architecting testing solutions,” particularly in the areas of testing
strategy development and testing management/measurement. Susan has contributed to
the development of supporting processes, tools, and techniques in these key areas.
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Cigital
A Managing Consultant at Cigital, Paco Hope has more
than twelve years of experience in software and operating system security. His areas
of expertise include software security policy, code analysis, host security, and
PKI. Paco has worked extensively with embedded systems in the gaming and mobile
communications industries, and has served as a subject matter expert on issues of
network security standards in the financial industry. Paco is co-author of Mastering
FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security. Prior to joining Cigital, he served as director of
product development for Tovaris, Inc.
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ZenTEST Labs
Krishna Iyer is a young entrepreneur and a prolific
speaker and author. Before ZenTEST Labs, Krishna was a Quality Manager at Kanbay
where he worked with clients such as CitiFinancial, HSBC, IBM, GE. At ZenTEST Labs,
besides being at the helm, Krishna has also performed consulting assignments for
Mercury Interactive. Krishna shapes ZenTEST Labs strategy using his financial background,
improves ZenTEST Labs operations using his rich IT and process consulting experience,
and transforms its culture using his expertise as a behavioral trainer. Krishna
is a regular presenter in testing and quality conferences including STARWEST.
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Borland Software
Brad Johnson, director of product marketing for Lifecycle Quality Management, is
responsible for the product strategy and marketing of Borland’s Lifecycle Quality
Management solution. In this role, Brad is dedicated to improving the project success
rate for IT teams with a comprehensive quality management solution that supports
quality early in the lifecycle with complete, testable requirements, helps developers
build higher quality code, and leverages powerful test automation to improve efficiency
and reduce costs. He brings over 14 years of IT experience to Borland and a proven
track record of helping global enterprises continually improve the quality and value
of their IT projects.
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DiJohn Innovative Consulting, Inc.
Dion Johnson has over thirteen years of experience
in providing IT services to both government and private industry. With a Bachelor
of Science degree in electrical engineering, Dion has spent much of his professional
career as a consultant, tasked with handling all aspects of the delivery of onsite
customer services, particularly in the areas of quality assurance, quality control,
software process improvement, and requirements analysis. As a conference speaker,
Dion has delivered award winning and highly acclaimed presentations at many of the
most prestigious industry conferences, including STAREAST, STARWEST, and
the Better Software Conference & EXPO. He also writes for Better Software
magazine and StickyMinds.com.
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Kohl Concepts Inc.
Jonathan Kohl is the founder and principal software
testing consultant with Kohl Concepts Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A
noted testing thinker, Jonathan is recognized as a leader in the exploratory testing
community. He is a popular author and speaker who believes that testing is a challenging
intellectual craft. Jonathan’s blog on software development and testing issues
is one of the most well-read testing blogs in the industry. Jonathan is a regular
contributor to Better Software magazine, as an author and technical editor.
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Empirix
Dan Koloski, a 10-year veteran of the software industry, has extensive experience
designing, building, deploying and testing Web and voice applications. In his current
role, Dan is responsible for defining and articulating the business, partner and
marketing strategy for Empirix’s Web Business Unit. Previously, Dan managed Strategic
Alliances for Empirix, where he helped grow the business from zero to over $8M annually
through innovative partnerships including the first integrated solution for ensuring
the success of complex, multi-channel CRM implementations. Dan originally headed
Empirix’s Web Application Testing group, which under his leadership experienced
double-digit revenue growth each quarter. Prior to joining Empirix, Dan served as
an Allaire-certified ColdFusion instructor and technologist in the areas of multimedia,
content syndication and CRM. He is a frequent speaker and contributor to industry
publications. Dan is a graduate of Yale University and holds an MBA from Harvard
Business School.
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The Mathworks, Inc.
Ronelle Landy was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received her
BS and MS in Electrical Engineering (with concentration in High Voltage/Electric
Power) from the University of the Witwatersand. Ronelle moved to Boston, MA in 2001
to begin work at The MathWorks Inc. Since then she has held a number of different
positions at the company including Technical Support Engineer, Control and Identification
Quality Engineer, Control Quality Engineering Senior Team Lead and most recently,
Senior Team Lead in the Testing Infrastructure and Architecture Team. When not at
work, Ronelle can be found in either in the gym, the ballet studio, her kitchen
or the mall – where she will be shopping her growing number of nieces and nephews.
Ronelle can be contacted at:
Ronelle.Landy@mathworks.com.
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SELA Group
Alon Linetzki, MBA (with excellence), Bs.c., LQA, CSA, ISTQB-CTFL, ISTQB-CTAL, has
been a test engineer and a test manager since 1993, and in IT development since
1983. Alon has been a developer and a system analyst developing military systems
for 7 years, after which he moved into testing. Alon main specialized areas of consulting
and training in testing are: test strategy & risk based testing, test management,
test process improvement, defect management & analysis, building & maintaining effective
and efficient testing teams. On top of publications in local professional magazines
and media, Alon is also a popular speaker in international testing conferences around
the world (since 1995), co-founder of the Israeli Testing Certification Board (2004),
where he serves as VP marketing, and the founder and chair of SIGiST – the Israeli
testing forum (2000).
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Workroom Productions
James Lyndsay is an independent test strategist, based
in London. He's been testing since 1986, and has been the principal consultant at
Workroom Productions since its formation in 1994. As a consultant, he's worked in
a variety of businesses and project styles; from retail to telecommunications, from
rapidly-evolving internet start-ups to more traditional large-scale enterprise.
He's worked on technical requirements for companies that make and sell software,
commercial requirements for companies that buy and use software, and unexpected
requirements everywhere. James was an internal irritant to the ISEB exam process
for five years, is a regular speaker and occasional teacher, and runs LEWT (the
London Exploratory Workshop in Testing).
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Crosscheck Networks
Rizwan Mallal is the Director of Technology at Crosscheck
Networks. A founding member and Chief Security Architect of Forum Systems, Rizwan
is responsible for all security related aspects of Forum’s technology. Previously,
Rizwan was the Chief Architect at Phobos where he was responsible for developing
the industry's first embedded SSL offloader. Before joining Phobos, he was a member
of the core engineering group at Raptor Systems which pioneered the Firewall/VPN
space in the mid 1990s.
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Antony Marcano has a dozen years of experience in
software testing across numerous sectors. Since 2000, much of Antony's work has
been on agile projects. Now, as a practitioner, mentor, coach, and consultant, he
helps teams realize the benefits associated with agile development. A regular speaker
at peer-workshops and conferences, Antony’s views have been quoted in numerous
publications including Corporate Insurance & Risk magazine, VNUNet, and the
British Computer Society’s journal The Tester. Antony is creator and curator
of testingReflections.com, one of the most influential software testing sites on
the Internet and is a Technical Editor for Better Software magazine.
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Notion Solutions, Inc.
Dave is a Principal Consultant and trainer with Notion
Solutions, Inc. He has been leading clients in .NET architecture and development
projects since the initial beta release of Visual Studio.NET. Since joining Notion
Solutions in 2005, Dave has focused on assisting clients with their adoption of
Visual Studio Team System. With over 15 years in the industry, Dave’s experience
includes leading clients through .NET Architecture, .NET application development,
BizTalk Server solutions, SharePoint, SQL Reporting Services and almost anything
.NET related. He was one of the first individuals recognized by Microsoft as a Most
Valuable Professional (MVP) for Team System and holds his MCSD.NET and VB6 certifications.
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Safeway
Having a career as an IT professional spanning more than 20 years, across all roles
within the software project lifecycle, Donna McLeod has valuable insight to bring
to the testing discipline from both the development and testing perspective. With
this, she developed the principle of early acceptance of the software by the user
community, as individual features and critical/important solutions for the customer
become complete and available for testing, long before the entire system becomes
fully complete. Her successes in leading testing efforts of complex and high risk
software thru to delivery into production virtually defect free earned her the position
within Safeway’s Development Practices organization to enable other test managers
to achieve the same success. In this position, she has also worked tirelessly to
bring awareness to the breadth and depth of responsibilities and skills within the
test discipline, earning her the reputation as ‘the passionate one’ in testing.
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Google
Bharat Mediratta is the Technical Lead of the Google
Web Server (GWS) team and co-founder of the Testing Grouplet. Bharat has been a
tireless advocate of developer testing both in GWS and Google as a whole. Thanks
to his efforts, GWS has increased its number of unit tests by an order of magnitude
and raised its code coverage by 50% while cutting the number of emergency pushes
in half. His team's success has become the benchmark by which other teams measure
their developer testing progress.
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ClearStream Consulting
Gerard Meszaros is a Calgary, Canada based consultant
and trainer specializing is agile development processes. He has more than 25 years
experience building and testing software intensive systems in both product development
and IT environments with technologies ranging from Java and .Net to Ruby and SAP’s
ABAP. Gerard coaches cross-functional teams as they learn how to better envision,
specify, develop, and test software systems using agile methods. He is frequent
speaker at major international software conferences and is the author of xUnit
Test Patterns – Refactoring Test Code published by Addison-Wesley Professional.
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Half-day Tutorial (MJ) - Test Automation Patterns: Best Practices and Common
Pitfalls Monday, May 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial (TK) - Improving Testing’s Value through Customer
Collaboration Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.
Session (T3) -
For Success, Build Record/Playback into Your Application
Thursday, May 8, 2008, 9:45 a.m.
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ZenTEST Labs
Mukesh Mulchandani, CTO of ZenTEST Labs, is responsible
for establishing ZenTEST Labs as a key player in the software testing domain. Mukesh
has seven years of work experience in the Information Technology industry, most
of which has been in Banking and Financial Services sector. Before joining ZenTEST
Labs, Mukesh worked with Kanbay and Capgemini Consulting and Fortune 500 clients
like Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. He has played a major role in designing functional
automation processes at the organizational level.
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Dell, Inc.
Jim has more than 18 years of test experience in both software and hardware disciplines.
Jim has built software and hardware test organizations from the ground up for multiple
companies such as WordPerfect, Novell and Dell. Jim specializes in test automation,
test process development, test organizational structures, and offshore test development.
Jim has spoken at test conferences in the past on the subjects of test automation,
test metrics, and test offshoring.
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Software Quality Engineering
With more than thirty years experience in information
technology, Dale Perry has been a programmer/analyst, database administrator, project
manager, development manager, tester, and test manager. Dale’s project experience
includes large systems development and conversions, distributed systems, on-line
applications, both client/server and Web based. He has been a professional instructor
for more than fifteen years and has presented at numerous industry conferences on
development and testing. With Software Quality Engineering for eleven years, Dale
has specialized in training and consulting on testing, inspections and reviews,
and other testing and quality related topics.
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STS Consulting
Nathan Petschenik is Chief Consultant for STS. His
career in system testing leadership includes significant experience as a software
developer, software development manager, systems engineering director, product manager,
and project manager. He is an expert in Independent Verification and Validation
(IV&V) methodologies. Nathan authored a paper “ Practical Priorities in
System Testing”, first published in IEEE Software, which is considered a landmark
in the transition of software testing from art to science. His book System Testing
with an Attitude has received excellent reviews.
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Google
Antoine Picard is the Technical Lead of the unit testing
team. Antoine's team is responsible for providing Google's developers with the tools
they need to write unit tests and with fast and accurate test results at every change
list. Antoine authored the first-ever edition of Testing on the Toilet and is now
one of a handful of regular contributors.
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POLTEQ IT Services BV
Martin Pol has played a significant role in helping
to raise the awareness and improve the performance of testing worldwide. Martin
provides international testing consulting services through POLTEQ IT Services BV.
He’s gained experience by managing testing processes and implementing structured
testing in many organizations in different branches. He was responsible for the
creation the testing standards TMap® and TPI®. These models have become
world standards. Martin received the first “European Testing Excellence Award”
for his contribution to the field of testing across Europe.
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Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
Randall Rice is a leading author, speaker and consultant
in the field of software testing and software quality. He has worked with major
organizations worldwide to improve the quality of their information systems and
optimize their testing processes. Randy has over 30 years experience building and
testing mission-critical projects in a variety of environments and has authored
over 25 training courses in software testing and software engineering. He is publisher
of The Software Quality Advisor newsletter and is co-author with William E. Perry
of the book, Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing. Randy also serves
on the board of directors of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board
(ASTQB). In 1990, Randy founded Rice Consulting Services, of which he is Principal
Consultant and Trainer.
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ABB Inc.
Brian is currently a Senior Principal Scientist in ABB’s Corporate Research group,
where he is the manager and technical lead for ABB’s Verification and Validation
Improvement Program (V2IP). V2IP has lead to measured improvement in both efficiency
and effectiveness of V&V activities in three divisions of ABB. Brian’s current research
focuses on answering real testing questions which arise from key stakeholders in
industrial development organizations, including upper management, developers, testers,
and product management. His research program aims to support empirical validation
of methods and tools, including bridging academic research into industrial best
practice. To that end, his program sponsors collaborative research at major universities
such as MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and North Carolina State University. He
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
OH, where he also received his Masters Degree. He has presented at both industry
and academic conferences, written many papers, and taught as an adjunct professor.
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Grove Consultants
With more than twenty-five years in the software industry,
Lloyd Roden has worked as a developer, managed an independent test group within
a software house, and joined Grove Consultants in 1999. Lloyd has been a speaker
at STAREAST, STARWEST, EuroSTAR, AsiaSTAR, Software Test Automation, Test
Congress, and Unicom conferences as well as Special Interest Groups in software
testing in several countries. He was Program Chair for both the tenth and eleventh
EuroSTAR conferences.
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Microsoft
Bj Rollison is a Test Architect with Microsoft’s Engineering Excellence group where
he designs and develops technical training curriculum, and teaches various testing
techniques and approaches to testers and developers at Microsoft. Bj started his
professional career in computers building custom solutions for small and medium
sized businesses for an OEM company in Japan in 1991. In 1994, he joined Microsoft
and worked on the Windows 95 team and on the Internet Explorer team. He became the
Director of Testing in 1999 responsible for planning and organizing training for
more than 6000 Microsoft testers. In 2003 Microsoft began to refocus its software
processes on engineering practices and Bj decided to move to a Test Architect role
and share his passion for teaching and mentoring. Bj also teaches software testing
courses at the University of Washington, and sits on software testing advisory boards
at the University of Washington, the University of California Extension Santa Cruz,
and Lake Washington Technical College. He is also a frequent speaker at international
software testing conferences.
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AmiBug.com
Robert Sabourin has more than twenty-five years of
management experience, leading teams of software development professionals. A well
respected member of the software engineering community, Robert has managed, trained,
mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently
speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management,
and internationalization. The author of I am a Bug!, the popular software testing
children’s book, Robert is an adjunct professor of Software Engineering at
McGill University.
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Half-day Tutorial (MK) - Using Visual Models for Test Case Design
Monday, May 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial (MO) - To Infinity and Beyond: Extreme Boundary Testing
Monday, May 5, 2008, 1:00 p.m.
Full-day Tutorial (TF) - Just-In-Time Testing Tuesday,
May 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.
Session (T2) -
Monty Python's Flying Test Lab Thursday, May
8, 2008, 9:45 a.m.
Search StickyMinds.com for content by Rob Sabourin
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Testcover.com
George is the inventor of CATS, the first pairwise test tool to use a greedy search
to handle test system constraints. He is a physicist by training, with degrees from
Clemson and Yale. He worked for 25 years at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs on a variety
of hardware, software and service development projects. He has managed teams of
engineers on work ranging from system engineering and project management to system
testing and field support. George’s development of CATS began his long-standing
interest in the math of combinatorial testing. He has found innovative constructions
for covering arrays, which can lead to significant reduction in search time and
fewer test cases. His work can be found in the Journal of Combinatorial Designs
and Discrete Mathematics. Having worked both with practitioners and researchers,
George has become a firm believer that both groups can learn much from the other.
In 2003 George founded Testcover.com. This pairwise test service enables software
engineers to design more effective test plans with fewer test cases. The service
provides an easy-to-use, practical test case generator, to support improved quality
and lower costs. George can be reached at
sherwood@testcover.com.
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Standard and Poors
Ben has been testing software, and developing testing tools, for 17 years. He has
enjoyed working with software development and testing teams in government, big business,
and small business. Ben is a firm believer in sapient testing by thinking human
beings assisted by (not replaced by) automation. Ben seeks to balance the use of
people and machines to most effectively satisfy each testing mission. Ben has been
testing system and software performance throughout his testing career. Ben is a
member of the Association for Software Testing and the context-driven school of
testing. Ben is the author of the Quality Frog blog at http://www.QuestioningSoftware.com. Ben is currently the
technical lead for the Standard & Poor’s Investment Services test automation team.
Contact Ben by email at Ben@QualityFrog.com.
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Borland Software
Dietmar is Borland’s Director of Quality Assurance in Borland’s largest development
facility in Linz, Austria. He has been on the Silk development team for 10 years
in various engineering roles and is currently responsible for the overall quality
across the entire suite of Borland’s quality testing & management tools. His experience
in traditional, agile and requirements-based-testing approaches has resulted in
Borland’s delivery of high-quality, high-value products and services for customers
worldwide.
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POLTEQ IT Services BV
Ruud Teunissen has performed several test functions
in a number of IT projects: tester, test specialist, test consultant, and test manager.
Ruud participated in the development of the structured testing methodology TMap®—Test
Management Approach. Together with Martin Pol and Erik van Veenendaal, Ruud is co-author
of several books on structured testing including Software Testing: A Guide to
the TMap® Approach.
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Microsoft
Principal test manager of the Microsoft OneNote team
in the Office division, Mike Tholfsen has been managing test teams for nine of the
thirteen years he has been at Microsoft. Mike has worked on many versions of Microsoft
Outlook, Exchange, and Outlook Web Access, and has long been interested and involved
in the area of software team dynamics. From Bellingham, Washington, Mike enjoys
playing and writing music, skiing, and playing golf in his spare time.
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People Security
An expert on application security and testing, Herbert
(Hugh) Thompson is Chief Security Strategist at People Security (www.peoplesecurity.com).
He has co-authored several books on the topic and has written more than eighty academic
and industrial publications on security. In 2006 he was named one of the “Top
5 Most Influential Thinkers in IT Security” by SC Magazine and was featured
(along with Harri Hursti) in “Hacking Democracy, ” the Emmy-nominated
HBO documentary on e-voting vulnerabilities. On AT&T’s tech channel (techchannel.att.com),
he currently hosts “The Hugh Thompson Show,” which features industry
luminaries in IT security. Hugh earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Florida
Institute of Technology where he remains on the graduate faculty.
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Citrix Systems Japan R&D K.K.
Marco earned his Ph.D. from Nagoya Institute of Technology in Computer Science.
Marco has more than twenty years of experience in leading all aspects of successful
software development, including support, development and testing, specializing in
the areas of software testing tools, techniques, and test automation. In his current
position at Citrix Systems Japan he is helping teams, all around the world, to realize
the benefits associated with test automation.
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Maveric Testing Solutions
Mahesh is an Executive Director and co-founder of Maveric Systems. He has over 20
years of experience in the IT industry in the area of IT Strategy, architecture,
design and implementation of IT solutions to the private and government sector.
After serving premier consulting and technology organizations, Mahesh started his
first entrepreneurial venture in 1992. He has wide ranging experience in delivering
complex development and testing solutions to clients in Europe and US through innovative
models of delivery. At Maveric, apart from being the architect of Maveric's proprietary
testing frameworks and methodologies, Mahesh heads delivery operations of Maveric
across the various delivery centers. He takes accountability for all offshore delivery
in Maveric. With Maveric rapidly becoming multi-locational in its delivery, Mahesh’s
primary challenge is ensuring that clients perceive the same level of responsiveness
and capability in Maveric teams across various delivery locations. Mahesh and his
team also ensure that we are constantly innovating and improving our testing methods
and processes to significantly enhance the quality of our client’s applications.
Mahesh holds the belief that test automation will be the one area in testing where
we will see the most rapid and radical changes in the coming years. He has therefore
created a dedicated Centers of Excellence for Test Automation in Maveric Systems.
The automation CoE invests in creating proprietary, re-usable and tool independent
automation frameworks to support Maveric’s clients in the design, execution and
management of tests. The CoE also focuses on evaluating best of breed automation
tools across the product lifecycle to deliver cost effective and maintainable solutions
to our clients. Mahesh holds an MBA from XLRI, India and a Bachelors in Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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