Elfriede Dustin

Elfriede is a technical director at IDT ( www.idtus.com ) and have been working at IDT since 2006. IDT is a leader in providing automated software testing solutions, called Automated Test and Re-Test (ATRT), to DOD and its contractors.

Software development is still an art and that makes automated software testing a special challenge. At IDT (www.idtus.com) we strive to meet that challenge by producing an extensible automated testing framework.

For any questions related to automated software testing, ATRT, or the various books here, please contact Elfriede at edustin@idtus.com.

Elfriede has a B.S. in Computer Science with over 20 years of IT experience, implementing effective testing strategies, both on Government and commercial programs. Elfriede has implemented automated testing methodologies and testing strategies as an Internal SQA Consultant at Symantec, worked as an Asst. Director for Integrated Testing at the IRS Modernization Efforts, implemented testing strategies and built test teams as a QA Director for BNA Software, and was the QA Manager for the Coast Guard MOISE program, just to name a few of the companies and testing/QA effortsElfriede has worked on in the past 20 years.

Elfriede is the author and co-author of 6 books related to Software Testing, i.e. author of the book ‘Effective Software Testing’ and lead author of ‘Automated Software Testing’ and ‘Quality Web Systems,’ and co-authored the book ‘The Art of Software Security Testing,’ together with Chris Wysopal, Lucas Nelson, Dino D’ai Zovi, which was published by Symantec Press, Nov 2006.

Elfriede’s goal is to continue to help further automated software testing advances and contribute to solving the automated software testing challenge.

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