Tilo Linz is a founder. In 1992, he founded, together with former colleagues, the company “imbus AG”, which has since then been successfully offering services in the fields of software quality assurance and testing. Tilo Linz today holds responsibility as the Chairman for Sales and Marketing for the company, which in the meantime has 110 employees. (...)
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Horst Pohlmann, born 1958, studied IT at the University of Paderborn and worked initially as a system developer in a branch of a software house belonging to the Rheinmetall Group, where he established from new the subject of software quality assurance. Following this he has been engaged in the areas of management and quality for various software houses. (...)
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As scientist, Prof. Dr. Mario Winter is per se committed to independence. The professor works at the „Institut für Informatik“ at the Cologne Technical College, where he is a member of the research subject „Software quality”. As far as the GTB is concerned, it is also the aspect of its independence, which motivates him to support the organization. (...)
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Andreas Spillner is convinced that quality will win through in the long run. And experience shows that the professor at the chair for electrical engineering and computing sciences at the Bremen College is right. Systematic software testing has, in fact, been established slowly but surely in practice over the past decades. (...)
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Dr. Armin Metzger was interested in software quality assurance even during his years of study. Even his degree dissertation for his doctor’s degree in physics dealt with testing subjects such as the stochastic testing. After joining the IT service provider sepp.med, Dr. Metzger has remained true to the general subject of „quality“ in varying fields of activity which involved software quality assurance and development processes.(...)
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When Anton Schlatter first came into contact with software testing back in 1996, he was initially not overly enthusiastic. This, however, changed quickly. Anton Schlatter, who today is Business Development Manager at the German organisation of the globally operating consultancy house Logica Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, realised: Software testing offers diverse development perspectives for IT specialists and enormous economic potential for businesses. (...)
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Graham Bath can look back on more than 20 years of professional experience in testing. After studying Systems Engineering at the Middlesex University London and the University of Surrey, where he graduated with the Master of Sciences degree in this subject, his very first assignment lead straight to the testing of software: in an avionic project he gathered his first experiences with quality assurance. (...)
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The fact that Sabine Uhde today works as an expert in tester training is not merely a result of one single decision. It is rather a role that the system analyst has grown into step by step. She is responsible for the tester training courses at the IT service provider sepp.med GmbH, and together with her colleague Dr. Armin Metzger she leads the GTB working party responsible for the accreditation of training providers. (...)
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When Petra Bukowski joined the consultancy company SQS Software Quality Systems AG in 1991, software testing was a largely new subject for her. Today, she knows that software quality assurance will continue to be a good source for new and state-of-the-art ideas.(...)
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It was a Year 2K project which introduced Dr. Matthias Hamburg, a software engineer of long-standing experience, to the new world of systematic software testing. As he checked through entire IT landscapes, the IT expert, who today is Managing Consultant at Sogeti Deutschland GmbH, realized quickly that software quality assurance was not something that is here today gone tomorrow, but rather something promising significant potential for the future.(...)
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Apart from research, the life of Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker revolves very much around teaching and learning. For a university professor, this is not unusual. As a scientist, however, Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker also engages herself in the teaching of knowledge and transfer of know-how. (...)
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What is so special about software testing? For Timea Illes-Seifert the answer is easy: For her, quality assurance is distinguished primarily through an engineering approach and through the great variety of activities associated with it. This was the experience the software technician has made in all assignments where she was responsible for testing: during her studies, in projects in the economy or in the context of research projects. (...)
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„You don’t test enough!“ Maud Schlich remembers these words from one of her former bosses very well, said during her time as a student trainee when she first came into contact with software testing. She soon realised that this work is not made up of dull theory and formal documentation, but rather points to new ways for quality assurance and testing, which will help to solve problems in organisations or prevent problems from arising in the first place. (...)
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Dr. Uwe Hehn was already testing software when most computer scientists had not even heard of quality assurance (QA) as an independent discipline. In those days, QA was mainly limited to developer testing performed in parallel to programming. Even literature on the subject was difficult to find back in the nineties. (...)
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