Without training in software testing that includes formal methods such as equivalence class partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, state diagrams, and others, an engineer, in good faith, will test the code intuitively until reaching “qualitative confidence” that testing is sufficient. The team at Trimble, Inc. provided training to engineers in a wide variety of formal testing methods so they could gain “quantitative confidence” that code has been tested sufficiently, by using methods known to achieve concrete coverage in requirements and code. Subsequently, Trimble...
James Wood
Software Test Architect
Trimble PPM, Inc.
James Wood is the Software Test Architect for Trimble, Inc. As researcher, developer, and tester, he has worked 38 years for firms that include Siemens, Google, and Ultimate Software. His primary areas of research have included software testing and architecture. As a developer, he has focused on back-end services, application-level APIs, and data persistence. As a tester, he has focused at all levels of the testing pyramid on test automation, test generation tools, frameworks, metrics, and analytics. He has worked on software projects in the areas of hardware design, medical imaging, telecommunications, search, storage, logging, human resources, and construction. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania.