Andrew Brown
Expleo (UK)

Biography

Dr Andrew Brown is a principal consultant at Expleo. He leads an independent line of research into understanding why we humans make the mistakes that lead to software defects. He has 25 years’ experience in the software industry. Previous roles include Head of QA at HMV, Head of QA at a financial software house and a test manager in Japan. He holds a degree in Physics and Maths, an MBA from Warwick Business School and a doctorate from Imperial College.
Critical thinking skills for testers
Full Day Tutorial

 

In this tutorial, you will learn critical thinking skills, how to recognise common thinking traps, plus how to avoid such traps. In addition, you learn techniques to help achieve the following: 

  • Create tests that have a greater chance of detecting a defect 
  • Create tests that are more diagnostic 
  • Leverage their own natural reasoning processes 
  • Avoid thinking in fixed patterns 
  • Maximise the useful information yielded from a test result 

Come to this session and develop your critical thinking skills! 

About the Presentation

Rethinking testing and risk within complex systems – the Swiss Cheese Model
Session Speech

 

In this session, we explore an alternate model for managing the testing and operation of complex systems – the Swiss Cheese Model. We show how we can use this model to change the way we think about complex systems and their primary causes of error. We also show how we can use this alternate model to understand and manage the risks inherent within complex systems.