November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 10m
English
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About the Contributors
Jon Bach is a Seattle-area independent software consultant with three decades in software testing and enterprise-level program management. He's led software teams at Microsoft and eBay. He also co-created Session-Based Test Management with his brother James. Jon is an award-winning conference speaker with a BA in Journalism from the University of Maine and finds testing to be a similar pursuit to being a journalist—asking questions to discover truths and then making a report of findings to an audience who needs to know.
Lalitkumar Bhamare is an award-winning Engineering Leader with over 18 years of experience in the field. For Accenture, he leads the Thought Leadership group for Quality Engineering innovation across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He created the QCSD framework, recognized at EuroSTAR 2022, and founded the nonprofit Tea-time with Testers. As Director at the Association for Software Testing, international keynote speaker, and thought leader, he drives advancements in software quality.
James Christie has 40 years of commercial IT experience, working in development, IT audit, testing, and security, mainly with financial systems. He worked for IBM on large-scale outsourcing accounts similar to Fujitsu's contract with the UK Post Office.
Harry Collins is a sociologist of knowledge who has studied science, including a 45-year-long study of the detection of gravitational waves. He has written, among other books, three books on what his studies ...
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