Using Oracles in Test Automation

Douglas Hoffman is an independent consultant with Software Quality Methods, LLC. He has been in the software engineering and quality assurance fields for 30 years and now is a management consultant in strategic and tactical planning for software quality. He is a past Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA), a Task Group of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and has just completed two years as Chairman of the Silicon Valley Section of ASQ. He has been a presenter and participant at dozens of software quality conferences and has been Program Chairman for several international conferences on software quality. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE and is active in the ASQ as a Senior Member, participating in the Software Division, the Silicon Valley Section, and the Software Quality Task Group. He has earned a BA in Computer Science, an MS in Electrical Engineering, an MBA, a Certificate from ASQ in Software Quality Engineering, and has been a registered ISO 9000 Lead Auditor.