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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, September 30, 2013 - 1:00pm
Half-day Tutorials
How to Break Software: Embedded Edition
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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, he 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.

Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 3:00pm
Special Topics
Introducing the New Software Testing Standard

Software testing standards—who cares, anyway? You should! The new ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 software testing standard, driven by representatives from twenty countries and under development for the past five years, will be released soon. As a professional tester, you need to know about this standard and how it may apply to your environment. Jon Hagar describes the standard, how it was developed, and what types of projects will be impacted by it. This new standard offers risk-based approach to software testing that can be applied to both traditional and agile projects.