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Richard Bender

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Richard Bender has over forty-five years experience in software with a primary focus on quality assurance and testing. He has consulted internationally to large and small corporations, government agencies, and the military. Richard’s work has included a wide variety of application classes and technology bases from embedded systems to super computer-based systems—and everything in between—consulting to both vendors and IT departments alike. He has been active in establishing industry standards for software quality and is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities, and corporate events. He was one of the first programmers ever awarded IBM’s Outstanding Invention Award for his breakthroughs on code based testing.

Speaker Presentations
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 2:00pm
Special Topics
Driving Down Requirements Defects: A Tester’s Dream Come True

The software industry knows that the majority of software defects have their root cause in poor requirements. So how can testers help improve requirements? Richard Bender asserts that requirements quality significantly improves when testers systematically validate the requirements as they are developed. Applying scenario-driven reviews ensures that the requirements have the proper focus and scope. Ambiguity reviews quantitatively identify unclear areas of the specification leading to early defect detection and defect avoidance.