People recognized as experts or knowledgeable personnel in the area of software inspections.
Fagan, Michael E. - Michael Fagan is founder and CEO of Michael Fagan Associates, and the creator of Fagan Inspections and the Fagan Defect-Free Process™.
As a product development manager at IBM, Michael created the Fagan Inspection Process for use on his own projects. Over the years, this has been enhanced and expanded into the the Fagan Defect-Free Process™, incorporating Formal Process Definition, and reinforcing the Continuous Process Improvement aspect of the Inspection Process. Using the inspection method, he was also able to use its metrics to monitor projects and keep them on track.
Graham, Dorothy - Dorothy Graham is a principal consultant partner of Grove Consultants (with Mark Fewster) which provides consultancy and training in software testing, test automation, and Inspection. She is the originator and co-author of the CAST Report (Computer Aided Software Testing tools) published by Cambridge Market Intelligence, and the co-author of Software Inspection published by Addison-Wesley in 1993. Both authors are popular and sought-after speakers at international conferences and workshops on software testing.
Dorothy is co-author of two books. The first Software Inspection with Tom Gilb and the second Software Test Automation with Mark Fewster. She originated and co-authored four editions of The CAST Report, detailing Computer-Aided Software Testing tools available in Europe. This was published by Unicom Seminars and Cambridge Market Intelligence. She has published several papers as well as making presentations and keynote speeches at numerous international conferences.
Dorothy was Programme Chair for the first European conference on software testing, EuroSTAR. She has been active in the British Computer Society's Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGIST) since 1989, and participated in the development of the Software Component Testing Standard. She is a founder and continuing member of the ISEB Software Testing Board, developing new qualifications for software testers.
At the EuroSTAR conference in Barcelona in 1999 she was awarded the IBM European Excellence Award in Software Testing.
Johnson, Philip - A Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii, Dr. Johnson is the Director of the Collaborative Software Development Laboratory (http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/). His research includes natural language processing, software development collaboration and programming language theory (java, ada).
Jones, Capers - Capers Jones is Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR). Capers Jones founded the company. He has almost 40 years of experience in software cost estimating. Jones designed IBM's first automated estimation tool in 1975, and is also one of the designers of three commercial software estimation tools: SPQR/20, Checkpoint, and KnowledgePlan. These software estimation tools pioneered the use of function point metrics for sizing and estimating. They also pioneered sizing of paper documents, and the estimation of quality and defect levels. To build these tools, SPR has collected quantified data from more than 600 companies.
Malotaux, Niels - Founder of NR Malotaux Consultancy, he is an independent consultant, teaching and coaching R&D, software and systems engineering projects to achieve Quality On Time. Quality On Time is short for delivering the right product, within the time and budget agreed, with no excuses, in a pleasant way for all involved, including the developers. His areas of expertise include: Evolutionary Project Management (Evo), Requirements Engineering, Quality, Best Practices, and Inspections.
Mark Lawford - Mark Lawford is an assistant professor in McMaster University’s Department of Computing and Software, where he is helping to develop and teach the software engineering programs. His research interests include discrete-event systems and the practical application of formal
methods to real-time systems. He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Computer Society.
Miller, James - James Miller is a professor at the University of Alberta who teaches and performs research in the area of software engineering.
O'Neill, Don - As an independent consultant, Don O’Neill conducts defined programs for managing strategic software improvement. These include directing the National Software Quality Experiment, participating in the National Software Council, and producing and maintaining the section on software inspections in the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Software Technology Reference Guide.
Parnas, David L. - David L. Parnas is the director of the Software Quality Research Laboratory, a Science Foundation Ireland Fellow, and a professor of software engineering at the University of Limerick.
He is also on leave from McMaster University. He is interested in most aspects of computer system design. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and is licensed as a professional engineer in Ontario, Canada. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the ACM, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Radice, Ronald A. - Ronald A. Radice is a principal partner in Software Technology and Transition, a company that provides training, consulting services, diagnostic services, and software engineering methods and tools. He is a past director of the software process program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously the director of software resources at Groupe Bull, where he was responsible for software engineering processes, metrics, assessment, and training programs. He is the author of Software Engineering: An Industrial Approach and ISO 9001: Interpreted for Software Organizations. He has also taught graduate-level software engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
Wiegers, Karl - Karl E. Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact in Portland, Oregon. He has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement. Prior to starting Process Impact in 1997, Karl spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company. His responsibilities there included experience as a photographic research scientist, software applications developer, software manager, and software process and quality improvement leader. Karl has led process improvement activities in small application development groups, Kodak's Internet development group, and a division of 500 software engineers developing embedded and host-based digital imaging software products.
Karl is the author of the following books:
Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Microsoft Press, 2007)
More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice (Microsoft Press, 2006)
Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
Creating a Software Engineering Culture (Dorset House Publishing, 1996)
Karl has also written more than 170 articles on many aspects of software, chemistry, and military history. He has served on the Editorial Board of IEEE Software and as a Contributing Editor for Software Development magazine.
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