Foreword

Rodger and I first met in 1985 at the Testing Computer Software Conference, which I coordinated. This was Rodger’s first software testing conference, and like many folks new to software testing, he was determined to learn as much as he could about the fascinating field of software testing in the limited time available. At the time, Rodger had been working as a team lead for system testing on a large software program for a government customer.

Over the years, I watched Rodger’s career develop, and witnessed as his focus changed from learning and using testing techniques, to testing management, and finally to concentration on the software testing process. In the mid-1990’s, Rodger presented aspects of his process model at the Quality Assurance ...

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