SQuAD Conference 2009 - Keynote Speaker

Elisabeth Hendrickson

Elisabeth started in the software industry in 1984.  She’s held positions as a Tester, Test Manager, Test Automation Manager, and Quality Engineering Director.  Elisabeth founded Quality Tree Software, Inc. in 1997 to provide training and consulting in software quality and testing.  She’s written numerous articles and is a frequently-invited speaker at major conferences.  In 2003 she became involved with the Agile community and these days works on Agile/XP projects where programmers are test-infected and are more likely to value her obsession with testing.

You can read more of Elisabeth's thoughts on software management, quality, and testing at www.qualitytree.com or reach her at esh@qualitytree.com.

Danny R. Faught

Danny R. Faught is an independent software testing consultant, trainer, and author.  He has been doing software testing since 1992 and has eight years of consulting experience.  His consulting practice focuses on efficient exploratory and automated testing for functional attributes and parafunctional attributes like performance and robustness.

Danny is the founder of the Metro-SQA group in Dallas, founder of the Toolsmith Guild, a charter member of the Association for Software Testing, and an Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation.  He has served on the advisory board for the Conference of the Association for Software Testing, Quality Week, and IEEE ASSET, and as a track chair for STAR East.  Danny is a columnist for StickyMinds.com.

Danny's consulting practice is Tejas Software Consulting

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