With almost 20 years of experience in software testing, Jon Bach has held technical and managerial positions at Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and eBay. His role as Director of Live Site Quality at eBay involves being on a team dedicated to building “end-to-end” tests (activity flows) to discover bugs on eBay’s … Read more
Dr. Richard Turner has over 30 years of experience in systems, software and acquisition engineering. Currently, he is a Distinguished Service Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, and a Principle Investigator with the Systems Engineering Research Center. … Read more
Karen N. Johnson is an independent software test consultant. Her client work is often centered on helping organizations at an enterprise level. In recent years, she has helped companies transitioning to Agile software development. While focused on software testing and predominantly working with the testers throughout an organization, Karen … Read more
Hillel Glazer is the founder, Principal, CEO, and “all-around Performance Jedi” of Entinex, Inc., a Baltimore, MD-based management consulting firm made up of aerospace (and other) engineers. Its mission: to bring the same skills and critical thinking used every day in aerospace to solve complex business problems. An … Read more
Dateline: Mar. 16, 2014
During his workshop entitled, Quantifying Software Productivity and Quality, held at last year’s PNSQC, Capers Jones said: “For a capable team using capable methodologies, you can predict results. Incapable teams using chaotic methods cannot predict results.” So it seems that high quality software starts … Read more
Meet-up sparks ideas for … more meet-ups!
It was a small gathering—maybe intimate is a better word—at Decarli’s Restaurant in Beaverton, OR, on March 6. But what it may have lacked in numbers it more than made up for in lively discussions about all things PNSQC.
Organized by super volunteer Dwayne Thomas, the meet-up was our group’s first of the new conference season. Board members, volunteers, staffer Terri Moore and the To the Point crew comprised the crowd. Conversations covered such topics as potential abstract topics, how to encourage more folks to submit abstracts, and how to host meet-ups that attract larger crowds. ...
