Program for Thursday, June 10, 2004

Speaker:  Andy Tinkham

Title: How Picky Do You Need To Be As A Tester?

Audience level: Intermediate to Expert

ABOUT THE SPEAKER AND PRESENTATION:

Abstract:

Software testing is a dynamic activity. The types of bugs and degree of pickiness required of testers vary as conditions on the project vary. How do testers know how picky they should be at any given point on their project?
This presentation explores this question by looking to the field of human performance, drawing upon Signal Detection Theory to build a model which testers can then apply to their own projects.

Bio:

Andy Tinkham is currently a graduate student at the Florida Institute of Technology, studying in Cem Kaner's lab. The mission of the lab is to take each of the eleven paradigms of testing identified by Cem Kaner and James Bach (regression, functional, stress, exploratory, high volume automation, domain, risk-based, document-based, scenario-based, user, and state-model based testing) and determine what skills are required to do each one correctly.  We then take these skills and determine how to train people in the skills they need. Andy worked as a software tester in the Twin Cities for 7 years prior to his going back to school and is a Certified Software Quality Analyst and Certified Software Test Engineer.  

Andy's writings are available both in his blog (available at http://blackbox.cs.fit.edu/blog/andy/) and at the lab's web page (http://www.testingeducation.org)

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