Michael Hackett

Michael is a co-founder of LogiGear Corporation, and has over two decades of experience in software engineering in banking, securities, healthcare and consumer electronics. Michael is a Certified Scrum Master and has co-authored two books on software testing. Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Mobile and Internet-Based Systems (Wiley, 2nd ed. 2003), and Global Software Test Automation (Happy About Publishing, 2006). He is a founding member of the Board of Advisors at the University of California Berkeley Extension and has taught for the Certificate in Software Quality Engineering and Management at the University of California Santa Cruz Extension. As a member of IEEE, his training courses have brought Silicon Valley testing expertise to over 16 countries. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Letter from the Editor – September 2021

Integrated teams Something we’ve learned in the Covid-19 pandemic is that we have to work together-whatever together means. Very few teams stayed co

Letter from the Editor – June 2021

Because of the type of work I do (consulting projects at different companies), I’ve been lucky in my Software Development career to have worked on a

Letter from the Editor – March 2021

A while ago, I helped start a Software Quality Certificate Program as a part of the Software Engineering Program at the University of California, Sant

Letter from the Editor – December 2020

Digital Transformation and IT Modernization projects have shifted into high gear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tough on some teams is having to do mor

Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? Part 2 of 2

Introduction This article is part 2 of the 2-part series, Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? Part 1 explored modern SDLCs, such as A

Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? : Part 1 of 2

As organizations’ Agile methodologies become mature, one of the trends in software development is for Developers to take on more testing, and ar

Letter From The Editor – September 2020

There is a growing software development dynamic of teams without Testers. When I first went into Software Quality, I learned one thing right away: My

Continuous Testing, Part 2: Strategy and Automation Goals for Test Teams

DevOps has been described as Agile on Steroids; DevOps has also been described as Agile for Operations/IT. I like both of those descriptions. Many org