Jon Hagar

Grand Software Testing

Jon Hagar is a systems-software engineer and tester consultant supporting software product integrity and verification and validation, with a specialization in embedded and mobile software systems. For more than thirty years Jon has worked in software engineering, particularly testing, supporting projects including control system (avionics and auto), spacecraft, mobile-smart devices, IT, and attack testing of smart phones. Jon has built and managed embedded test labs with test automation; publishes and speaks regularly with more than fifty presentations and papers; and authored a new book on mobile/embedded software, scheduled for publication in 2013, and parts of three other books.

Speaker Presentations

Monday, April 29, 2013 - 8:30am

Half-day Tutorials

How to Break Software: Embedded Edition

In the tradition of James Whittaker’s book series How to Break … Software, Jon Hagar applies the testing “attack” concept to the domain of embedded software systems. Jon defines the sub-domain of embedded software and examines the issues of product failure caused by defects in that software. Next, Jon shares a set of attacks against embedded software based on common modes of failure that testers can direct against their own software. For specific attacks, Jon explains when and how to conduct the attack, as well as why the attack works to find bugs.