James whittaker has spent his career in software testing. It is one of the stories i am going to tell in full detail in my workshop. You cant compare 1990s software with modern software and think that. Now learn more about our fourth workshop and closing keynote james whittaker.
Tips, tricks, tours, and techniques to guide test design. Ive heard this as the value is in the process, not the artifact couldnt agree more. This is when i came across a seminal session by none other than james whittaker. Whittaker, florida institute of technology ieee software 171, pp. Since then, whittaker has shown an almost preternatural instinct for gravitating to a field of technology just as it was about to boom.
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According to james, a test plan should not take more than 10 minutes. In exploratory software testing, renowned software testing expert james whittaker reveals the real causes of todays most serious, wellhidden software bugsand introduces powerful new exploratory techniques for finding and correcting them drawing on nearly two decades of experience. Software testing is arguably the least understood part of the development process. While a professor at the florida institute of technology, james founded the worlds largest academic software testing research center and helped make.
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