Srinivasan Desikan is the author of one of the best selling book "Software Testing - Principles and Practices" which is being used by more than 50 universities across the world. He has been part of large testing and product-development teams, and has been in the field of software testing since 1989. He has occupied a variety of technical and management positions at Novell, HP, Altisource, Wipro, Talisma, Siebel and Agile Software. He created Indian entity called RollingRock Software and built it from scratch which is owned by Certifyglobal - a US healthcare company. He worked as VP in Healthcare product organization - CNSI in Chennai where he created SQA and Operations Quality teams from scratch into a centralized organization and he is currently the lead Consultant at QualPlayers Bangalore.
He has received one of the biggest engineering awards "Employee of the Year-1999" at Novell for setting up system test team and the lab from scratch and Rock-Star 2013 award from HP for his contributions towards testing services portfolio.
He has vast experience in the areas of test automation, test management, test processes and in setting up test teams from scratch. He has delivered talks on testing at international conferences both in India and abroad, such as QAI-India, ASIASTAR-2002 (Melbourne, Australia), PSQT/PSTT-2003 (Washington, USA), CSI, BCIC, IEEE, SPIN (Chennai), ICCA(Pondy), STEP-AUTO and STeP-IN. He has more than 20 technical publications with magazines such as CTO Forum, PCQuest, Times of India, Deccan Herald, Express Computer, SEA Software ...etc.
He has two patents on Regression testing and white box testing. He is currently doing his research in defect detection and prevention mechanisms for mission-critical software applications based on matured automobile industry experiences (Toyota-way).
A post-graduate from Pondicherry Engineering College, he is currently serving as honorary adviser to colleges and Universities in course design, delivery and Instruction methods for software engineering and design. As a honorary adviser to companies he helped many of the testing services organizations in setting up and improving their competency and business during late 90's and early 2000. Passionate about software testing and product development, he spends his weekends giving guest/free lectures at universities, colleges and companies to promote the subject. He is the recipient of "Testing Thought Leadership Award" from Test2008.in for his contributions to both academia and Industry. He worked part of Govt of India HRD dept's Pedagogy initiative to design courses on Software Testing for IITs and other professional courses. Srinivasan can be reached at qualplayers@gmail.com
About the book "Software Testing - Principles and Practices"
He has received one of the biggest engineering awards "Employee of the Year-1999" at Novell for setting up system test team and the lab from scratch and Rock-Star 2013 award from HP for his contributions towards testing services portfolio.
He has vast experience in the areas of test automation, test management, test processes and in setting up test teams from scratch. He has delivered talks on testing at international conferences both in India and abroad, such as QAI-India, ASIASTAR-2002 (Melbourne, Australia), PSQT/PSTT-2003 (Washington, USA), CSI, BCIC, IEEE, SPIN (Chennai), ICCA(Pondy), STEP-AUTO and STeP-IN. He has more than 20 technical publications with magazines such as CTO Forum, PCQuest, Times of India, Deccan Herald, Express Computer, SEA Software ...etc.
He has two patents on Regression testing and white box testing. He is currently doing his research in defect detection and prevention mechanisms for mission-critical software applications based on matured automobile industry experiences (Toyota-way).
A post-graduate from Pondicherry Engineering College, he is currently serving as honorary adviser to colleges and Universities in course design, delivery and Instruction methods for software engineering and design. As a honorary adviser to companies he helped many of the testing services organizations in setting up and improving their competency and business during late 90's and early 2000. Passionate about software testing and product development, he spends his weekends giving guest/free lectures at universities, colleges and companies to promote the subject. He is the recipient of "Testing Thought Leadership Award" from Test2008.in for his contributions to both academia and Industry. He worked part of Govt of India HRD dept's Pedagogy initiative to design courses on Software Testing for IITs and other professional courses. Srinivasan can be reached at qualplayers@gmail.com
About the book "Software Testing - Principles and Practices"
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Software Testing : Principles and Practice, 1/e Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 817758295X; ISBN-13: 978-8177582956;
This book is available in both English and Chinese languages
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Sample list of colleges, universities and Institutes using this book
- Anna University, TamilNadu
- Visvesvaraya Technological University VTU, Karnataka
- Vellore Institute of Technology
- East Carolina University, USA
- California State University, Fullerton, USA
- Columbus State University, Columbus, USA
- Bharathidasan University, Trichy
- Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
- Computer Society of India
- University of Pune
- Cochin University
- University of Calicut
- SHIVAJI University, Kolhapur
- Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad
- Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
- Kongu Engineering College, Coimbatore (Autonomous)
- Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad (Autonomous)
- Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B)
- Pedagogy Project of Ministry of HRD, of Government of India (in Progress)
- University of Mumbai
- Maharastra state board of technical education
- Karnataka Technical board of education for Diploma courses
