Srinivasan Desikan -- Software Testing

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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 Inc., Wipro, Talisma, Siebel and Agile Software. 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. He currently works as Master Level Technologist at Hewlett-Packard (HP) playing a role of Capability and Strategy management for Testing with HP Enterprise services. 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), 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. Holder of two patents on Regresson 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 honarary advisor to colleges and Universities in course design, delivery and Instruction methods for software engineering and design. As a honarary advisor 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 recepient of "Testing Thought Leadership Award" from Test2008.in for his contributions to both academia and Industry. He is currently part of the Govt of India HRD dept's Pedogogy initiative to design courses on Software Testing for IITs and other profressional courses. Srinivasan can be reached at qualplayers@gmail.com

About the book "Software Testing - Principles and Practices"

Software Testing : Principles and Practice, 1/e Published: 2006

ISBN-10: 817758295X; ISBN-13: 978-8177582956;

International version available through http://www.amazon.com/

This book is available in both English and Chinese languages

Sample list of colleges, universities and Institutes using this book

Anna University, Chennai, Coimbatore, Trichy [Link] [Link] [link]
Visvesvaraya Technological University VTU, Karnataka [Link] [Link]
Vellore Institute of Technology [Link]
East Carolina University, USA [Link]
California State University, Fullerton, USA [Link]
Columbus State University, Columbus, USA [Link]
Bharathidasan University, Trichy [Link] [Link]
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore [Link] [Link]
Computer Society of India [Link]
University of Pune [Link]
Cochin University [Link]
University of Calicut [Link]
SHIVAJI University, Kolhapur [link]
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad [link]
Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University [Link]
Kongu Engineering College, Coimbatore (Autonomous) [Link]
Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad (Autonomous) [Link]
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B)
Pedagogy Project of Ministry of HRD, of Government of India (in Progress)
Competency Center Software Quality [Link]
University of Mumbai [Link]
Maharastra state board of technical education [Link]

Srinivasan Desikan Software Testing

Srinivasan Desikan -- Software Testing