Gerrard Consulting is delighted to announce its merger with WMHL Consulting.

After 25 years of successful trading, we are scaling our business with the aim of becoming a significant industry player. WMHL and Susan Windsor bring extensive experience in business development and service delivery. Steve Purchase, having 40 years as an IT professional with business and service experience joins the board as Non-Exec Director.

We will continue to provide our testing assurance and consultancy services but we will offer an exciting portfolio of new services starting with Tested Trusted Requirements and Improved Business Acceptance.

Susan says “I’m really passionate and excited about our new services and to be involved in scaling a service company once again”. Steve commented “In my view, requirements are the key to ensure that software fully meets user expectations, too often projects are late or functionality is somehow missed or watered down”.

WMHL brings us marketing, business development and leadership capability that complements Gerrard Consulting's reputation for innovation in the testing industry. We will market services to support businesses wishing to improve the way they manage systems, suppliers and software acceptance. These services are founded on our new Business Story Method and are supported by our test tool, Testela. This is an exciting time for the new company.

The full news release can be found here

The third in a series of articles on Anti-Regression Approaches has been posted here: Part III: Regression Testing

Part I: Introduction & Impact Analysis can be found here.

Part II: Regression Prevention and Detection Using Static Techniques can be found here.

The next article will focus on Test Automation.

I was asked by the Eurostar team to write up a series of articles on regression, impact analysis and regression testing. The first appears here: Part I: Introduction and Impact Analysis

Thanks to all the people who sponsored, facilitated, attended and supported the Workshops and the Summit last week.

We've posted the presenter materials on the TMF website here: http://uktmf.com/index.php?q=node/239

NB: you must be a logged-in registered user to see the links to the downloads. If you aren't registered already, you will need to do so here: http://uktmf.com/index.php?q=user/register

Thanks and best regards,
Paul.

Last week I presented a talk called "Advancing Testing Using Axioms" at the First IIR Testing Forum in Helsinki, Finland.

Test Axioms have been formulated as a context-neutral set of rules for testing systems. Because they represent the critical thinking processes required to test any system, there are clear opportunities to advance the practice of testing using them.

The talk introduces "The First Equation of Testing" and discusses opportunities to use the Axioms to support test strategy development, test assessment and improvement and suggests that a tester skills framework could be an interesting by-product of the Axioms. Finally, "The Quantum Theory of Testing" is introduced.

Go to the web page for this talk.