Dorothy Graham
Tutor
Dorothy has worked in software testing for over 30 years. Originally from the US, her first job was developing testing tools for Bell Labs in New Jersey. After emigrating to the UK, she worked as a developer for Ferranti Computer Systems in Manchester for 7 years. She developed training courses in software engineering for the National Computing Centre before becoming an independent consultant specialising in software testing. She founded Grove Consultants in 1988. During her 20 years with them, Grove gained a reputation for the high quality of their training materials and presentations, and established a world-wide client base. In 2008 she left Grove to become an independent consultant.
She is co-author of three books. Software Inspection with Tom Gilb, Software Test Automation with Mark Fewster and Foundations of Software Testing with Erik Van Veenendaal, Isabel Evans and Rex Black.
Dorothy was Programme Chair for the first EuroStar conference in 1993, and for the BCS SIGIST for its first 7 years. She has been on the boards of conferences and publications in software testing. She was a founding member of the ISEB Software Testing Board, and was a member of the working party that developed the ISTQB Foundation Syllabus.
Dorothy is a popular and entertaining speaker at conferences and events world-wide and holds the European Excellence Award in Software Testing.
