Matt Heusser is the principal consultant at Excelon Development, where he recruits, trains and does software testing and development. The initial lead organizer of the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (now in its 6th year), and lead editor of "How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing," Matt is also a contributing editor for STQA Magazine and sits on the board of directors for the Association for Software Testing. Matt went independent in 2011, shortly after finishing a two-year stint as a part-time instructor in Information Systems at Calvin College. You can learn more about Matt on his blog.
Blog: Creative Chaos
Follow: @mheusser
Areas of expertise: Software Testing; Agile Software Development; Risk Management and Software Project Management; Using tools to assist and automate the test process; Writing, Speaking, Training, and Personal and Professional Development.
Contributions from Matt Heusser
- Three primary Agile development principles
- Software development best practice: Threat modeling
- Software lifecycle: Defining just-in-time requirements
- Fing and Metasploit: Open source security testing
- Software testing techniques: Four ways to cut costs
- Software quality assurance testing: First mobile steps
- SoLoMo apps: How to test them
- Secure Code: Why buffer overflows still matter
- Beyond DevOps: WebOps reduces cloud deployment risk
- Extending Agile teams with DevOps techniques
- Exploring the shifting roles in test and QA management
- Defining the role of the Agile project manager
- Create ALM process flow with automation and elimination
- Four ways to reduce software testing costs
- Software testing from the ground up
- Five lessons for continuous integration
- Software requirements: Accounting for development
- Trends and innovations in software testing
- What they don't teach in management training
- Organizational change management tools