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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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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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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Stephanie Ulrich belongs to those who were enthusiastic about software testing even back in the nineties, at a time when quality assurance did not have the status it has today. Consequently, she was not distracted by one of her former bosses, who asked her: „Why do you want to test? Do something interesting instead – data modelling for example.“ (...)
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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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„Those who can develop, can also test.“ This was common practice when Monika Bögge contributed to the first IT projects of a medium-sized system house. It was not until later, that the IT specialist came to know the independent role of quality assurance in the context of a test project at Telefónica o2 Germany. (...)
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„At the start, things just happened this way “, says Jörn Münzel. After studying at the Technical University Darmstadt, he started out testing IT systems at Danet GmbH according to the requirements of the then postal authority. He soon realized that his mentality for analytical and structured thinking and testing matched perfectly. Twenty years on and considerably richer in professional experience, the software professional with a master degree in computer sciences today leads the Competence Center of the ITinera Consulting GmbH & Co. KG.
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„Anke Löwer came into contact with software testing at an early stage: The subject course „Software reliability“ at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences and a committed professor, who taught methods in step with actual practice, aroused her interest. Today, she works as a consultant for the IT-consultancy „corporate quality consulting GmbH”, and gives training courses herself on the subject of software testing. As a trainer for the ISTQB® Foundation Level she contributes to the things which fascinated her most during her study of computer sciences: to teach the course contents in a way that course participants can directly apply in their everyday work. "
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„ In 1974, when Werner Lieblang programmed a microprocessor at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany had just become world football champions for the second time. That was over 35 years ago. Today he is tutor at Díaz & Hilterscheid Unternehmensberatung GmbH, and the participants of the ISTQB® Certified Tester courses, who he prepares for their exams, profit from his wealth of experience."
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During his studies of information technology, Dr. Stephan Weißleder initially focussed on modelling and development. As a software developer at microTOOL GmbH, however, he became interested in the subject of testing. Subsequently, as part of his doctorate studies, he worked intensively with questions relating to quality assurance through model-based testing.
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Quality assurance is a holistic task, and as such it has something to do with competitive capability – for Dr. Frank Simon that’s beyond question. For holistically implemented quality assurance guarantees that software does not just “run”, but also exhibits other facets (...)
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Peter Zimmerer knows the challenges of software testing in practice – and he has done so for many years. After studying computer science, he went into industry and joined Siemens AG, where he deals with the testing and quality engineering of large software systems in the central research & development department (...)
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