Cem Kaner
{{short description|American lawyer and software testing writer}}
Cem Kaner is a professor of software engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and the Director of Florida Tech's Center for Software Testing Education & Research (CSTER) since 2004. He is perhaps best known outside academia as an advocate of software usability and software testing.
Prior to his professorship, Kaner worked in the software industry beginning in 1983 in Silicon Valley "as a tester, programmer, tech writer, software development manager, product development director, and independent software development consultant." In 1988, he and his co-authors Jack Falk and Hung Quoc Nguyen published what became, at the time, "the best selling book on software testing," Testing Computer Software.{{cite web |url=http://www.badsoftware.com/alienwaresucks/2005/07/they-fail-to-give-their-advertised.html |title=They fail to give their advertised discount (Part 2). |access-date=2006-07-27 |last=Kaner |first=Cem |date=31 August 2004 |format=Blog |work=Alienware Sucks! |publisher=badsoftware.com |archive-date=2006-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060805175338/http://www.badsoftware.com/alienwaresucks/2005/07/they-fail-to-give-their-advertised.html |url-status=dead }} See #Publications above for details on editions of Testing Computer Software. He has also worked as a user interface designer.
In 2004 he cofounded the non-profit Association for Software Testing.{{cite web|url=http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/documents/ArticlesOfIncorporation04152004.pdf |title=Articles of Incorporation of Association for Software Testing, Inc |access-date=2006-07-28 |last=Kaner |first=Cem |author2=Registered Agent |author3=Association for Software Testing |date=14 April 2004 |publisher=Association for Software Testing |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713234825/http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/documents/ArticlesOfIncorporation04152004.pdf |archive-date=2006-07-13 |url-status=dead }}
Education
Kaner received a Bachelor's Degree from Brock University in 1974, having focused on mathematics and philosophy. He went on to receive a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from McMaster University in 1984, with a dissertation in the area of psychophysics (the measurement of perceptual experiences). He later attended Golden Gate University Law School, with a primary interest in the law of software quality, graduating with a J.D. in 1994.
Consumer and Software Quality Advocacy
Kaner worked as a part-time volunteer for the Santa Clara, California Department of Consumer Affairs, investigating and mediating consumer complaints. In the 1990s, he got trial experience working as a full-time volunteer Deputy District Attorney, and later counselled independent consultants, technical book writers, and independent test labs on contract and intellectual property issues as an attorney. He also did legislative work as a consumer protection advocate, including participation in the drafting of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (as an advocate for customers and small software development firms), and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and he participated in the United States Department of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law: Study Group on Electronic Commerce. In 1999, he was elected to the American Law Institute, after being in practice for only five years.{{cite web|url=http://www.kaner.com/resume.html |title=About Me |access-date=2006-07-27 |last=Kaner |first=Cem |year=c. 2003 |work=kaner.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717055920/http://www.kaner.com/resume.html |archive-date=2006-07-17 |url-status=dead }}
This experience led him, in collaboration with David Pels, to publish Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails in 1997. This book was intended "to help people who had bought a defective computer program, with advice on troubleshooting their own problems, interacting with technical support, reporting problems to consumer protection agencies, bringing a lawsuit in small claims court, and if necessary, hiring a lawyer to bring a formal lawsuit."
Publications
=Books=
- {{cite book
|title=Testing Computer Software |edition=1st |date=December 1987
|publisher=TAB Professional & Reference Books |location=N.p. |isbn=0-8306-9563-X}}
- {{cite book |title=Testing Computer Software |edition=2nd |year=1993 |publisher=International Thomson Computer Press |location=N.p. |isbn=0-442-01361-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/testingcomputers00kane }} (with coauthors Jack Falk and Hung Q. Nguyen)
- {{cite book
|title=Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails |date=28 September 1998
|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=New York |isbn=0-471-31826-4}} (with coauthor David L. Pels)
- {{cite book
|title=Testing Computer Software |orig-year=1993
|edition=2nd (softback) |date=12 April 1999 |publisher=Wiley |location=New York
|isbn=0-471-35846-0}} (with coauthors Jack Falk and Hung Q. Nguyen) (Received the Award of Excellence from the Society for Technical Communication, Northern California Technical Publications Competition.)
- {{cite book
|title=Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-driven Approach
|date=15 December 2001 |publisher=Wiley |location=New York
|id={{LCC|QA76.76.T48|K34|2001}} |isbn=0-471-08112-4}} (with coauthors James Bach and Bret Pettichord and editor Margaret Eldridge)
- {{cite book
|title=The Domain Testing Workbook
|date=30 October 2013 |publisher=Context Driven Press |isbn=978-0989811903}} (with coauthors Sowmya Padmanabhan and Douglas Hoffman)
- {{cite book
|title=Foundations of Software Testing Workbook
|date=30 December 2013 |publisher=Context Driven Press |isbn=978-0989811927}} (with coauthor Rebecca L. Fiedler)
=Articles=
- {{cite web |url = http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/random.pdf |access-date = 2006-07-27 |title = A Better Random Number Generator for Apple's Floating Point BASIC |work = MICRO |pages = 26–35 |date = June 1984 |archive-date = 2003-07-15 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030715070850/http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/random.pdf |url-status = dead }} (with coauthor John R. Vokey)
- {{cite journal |url = http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/baddocs.pdf |title = Liability for Defective Documentation |access-date = 2006-07-27 |journal = Software QA Quarterly |volume = 2 |issue = 3 |pages = 8–13 |year = 1995 |archive-date = 2006-08-15 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060815233708/http://kaner.com/pdfs/baddocs.pdf |url-status = dead }}
- {{cite web
|url = http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/WhoLiable.pdf
|access-date = 2006-07-27
|title = Bad Software—Who is Liable?
|work = Proceedings of the American Society for Quality's 52nd Annual Quality Congress
|date = May 1998
|archive-date = 2004-12-06
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041206033934/http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/WhoLiable.pdf
|url-status = dead
}}
- {{cite web |url = http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/ucreveng.pdf |access-date = 2006-07-27 |title = Article 2B and Reverse Engineering |work = Uniform Commercial Code Bulletin |pages = 1–9 |date = November 1998 |archive-date = 2004-12-06 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041206034111/http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/ucreveng.pdf |url-status = dead }}
- {{cite web |url = http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/QWjobs.pdf |access-date = 2006-07-27 |title = Recruiting Software Testers |publisher = San Jose, CA |work = 12th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week) |date = June 1999 |archive-date = 2004-06-09 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040609220809/http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/QWjobs.pdf |url-status = dead }}
- {{cite journal |url = http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/UcitaSpectrum.pdf |title = UCITA: A disaster in progress |access-date = 2006-07-27 |journal = IEEE Spectrum |volume = 39 |issue = 8 |pages = 13–15 |date = August 2002 |doi = 10.1109/MSPEC.2002.1021944 |archive-date = 2006-08-15 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060815175146/http://kaner.com/pdfs/UcitaSpectrum.pdf |url-status = dead }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.kaner.com/ Official Cem Kaner homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112014208/http://kaner.com/ |date=2020-11-12 }}
- [http://www.kaner.com/ Official blog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112014208/http://kaner.com/ |date=2020-11-12 }} "On the craft and community of software testing"
- [http://www.testingeducation.org/ Center for Software Testing Education & Research] at Florida Tech
- [http://www.fit.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.html?value=135 FIT Faculty Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094615/http://www.fit.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.html?value=135 |date=2007-09-29 }}
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