People Who Have Influenced Me in Quality Engineering.

I’ve been interested in engineering quality since I assembled my first electronic radio over 40 years ago. Since then, I have explored how focusing on the quality of work in the electronics, electric, and automation industries affects the products I put into people’s hands.

I focused primarily on software engineering quality around 20 years ago. Since then, I owe a lot of the progress I’ve made to these people:

Lisa Crispin

She clarifies agile testing concepts in her books, guides teams through incorporating test automation into development processes, and proves that products built by multidisciplinary teams are more successful.

Uncle Bob Martin

I first met Uncle Bob 18 years ago. The company I worked for invited him to teach us various programming and design techniques. One of them was Test Driven Development. Since that time, I read almost all of his books. The most important lessons he gives to many generations of programmers is to focus on quality of work, responsibility and work ethos. He emphasises it in many workshops with the quote: “We will not ship shit. QA people will find nothing.” Well. This quote becomes the standard to live by.

John Arundel

I have learned a ton from John’s books and mentoring. His unique teaching style makes technical topics available to everyone. Are you in doubt you can understand a technical topic? Be no more. In every book, he guides readers gently through the dark forest of technical jargon, step by step, one concept at a time. He builds a mental model of a problem that, in the end, becomes easy to understand.