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Bret
Pettichord, a software testing expert and an influential
author and speaker, joined DataCert in October 2005. Mr. Pettichord serves DataCert as quality assurance manager and test architect, using open-source testing tools and agile methods.
His software testing philosophy is context-driven, focusing on uncovering important risks, maintaining close relations with programmers, and using agile testing methods that provide rapid feedback. He has broad experience using commercial and open-source tools for automated testing.
Mr. Pettichord is a founder of the Context-Driven School of software testing, which sees testing as a technical investigation of software risk that requires skill, adaptability and tact. He co-authored Lessons Learned in Software Testing (a Jolt Award finalist) to explain the thinking of the School. He has published over two dozen papers on software testing and test automation. His ideas about homebrew automation, agile testing and testability have been featured in Application Development Trends and The Rational Edge.
As a
member of the Agile community, he has
regularly hosted workshops that have brought together leading testers
and
programmers to assess and develop methods for testing on agile
projects. Mr.
Pettichord founded the Austin Workshop on Test Automation in 2000. It’s
a
yearly event that brings together leading test automators. He has been
regularly contributing to similar workshops since the first meeting of
the Los
Altos Workshop on Software Testing in 1996.
Prior
to joining DataCert, Mr. Pettichord worked a consultant for many years,
both in indendent practice and with ThoughtWorks. He has also held lead
test automation positions at IBM/Tivoli, BMC Software, and Segue
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