PDCA/Test (ePub)

William E. Lewis is the president of a Texas-based computer consulting firm specializing in quality assurance software testing solutions and training. He is a certified quality analyst (CQA) and certified software test engineer (CSTE) sponsored by the Quality Assurance Institute (QAI), Orlando, Florida. He has a history of successful quality assurance experience in complex leading-edge environments. Over the years, he has presented several papers to conferences. In 1998 he presented a paper to QAI's Annual International Information Technology Quality Conference, entitled "Spiral Testing," an excerpt from Section III of this book. Mr. Lewis has worked as an assistant director with Ernst & Young, LLP, located in Las Colinas, Texas. He joined E & Y in 1994 and authored the software configuration management, software testing, and application evolutionary handbooks, and participated in developing the Navigator/Fusion Methodology application improvement routemaps. He was the quality assurance manager for several application development projects and has extensive experience in test planning, test design, execution, evaluation, and reporting, and automated testing. Lewis has worked as a quality assurance analyst for the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the largest oil company in Saudi Arabia, on an overseas contract assignment as a quality assurance consultant for one year. His duties included full integration and system testing. He participated in the automated tool selection committee and made recommendations to management. He also created software testing standards and procedures. In 1998 Lewis retired from IBM after 28 years. His jobs included 12 years as a curriculum/course developer and instructor and numerous years as a system programmer/analyst and performance analyst. An overseas assignment included service in Seoul, Korea, where he was the software engineering curriculum manager for the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology