Jamie Mitchell

Jamie Mitchell Consulting, Inc.

Jamie Mitchell has more than thirty years of experience developing and testing both hardware and software. In 1991, Jamie moved from hardware to the dark side—software. He was a pioneer in the test automation field, working with a variety of vendor, open source, and custom-built tools since Windows 3.0. Jamie's specialty is increasing the productivity of automation and test teams through innovative ideas and custom tool extensions. In addition, Jamie provides training, mentoring, and expert technical support in all aspects of testing and automation. Jamie is the coauthor (with Rex Black) of Advanced Software Testing, Volume 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst.

Speaker Presentations

Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 3:15pm

Test Techniques

Structural Testing: When Quality Really Matters

Jamie Mitchell explores an underused and often forgotten test technique—white-box testing. Also known as structural testing, this technique requires some programming expertise and access to the code. Using only black-box testing, you could easily ship a system having tested only 50 percent or less of the code base. Are you comfortable with that? For mission-critical systems, such low test code coverage is clearly insufficient.