William C. Hetzel

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Dr. William C. Hetzel is an expert in the field of software testing. He compiled the papers from the 1972 Computer Program Test Methods Symposium, also known as the Chapel Hill Symposium, into the book Program Test Methods. [1] The book, published in 1973, details the problems of software validation and testing. [2]

Hetzel and Dave Gelperin co-found the Software Quality Engineering consultancy firm in 1986. In 1988 they classified the phases and goals of software testing into the following stages: [3]

References

  1. Hetzel, William C., ed. (1973). Program Test Methods. Prentice-Hall. ISBN   9780137296248.
  2. Meerts, Joris. "The History of Software Testing". Testing References. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  3. Gelperin, David; Hetzel, Bill (June 1988). "The Growth of Software Testing". Communications of the ACM. 31 (6): 687–695. doi: 10.1145/62959.62965 . S2CID   14731341 . Retrieved 18 December 2017.