Five Questions With James Whittaker

James Whittaker is, I dare say, one of the celebrities of the testing world. He was long a professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology, where he became well-known for his efforts to find ways to make testing a teachable skill. He and his research group there created innovative testing technologies and tools, including the popular runtime fault injection tool Holodeck, and became highly skilled at breaking software security. James founded Security Innovation to productize his work, but recently he has left both that company and teaching to join Microsoft as a Security Architect, where he is working to integrate testing into the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).

James wrote How To Break Software - one of my favorite books on testing, co-wrote How To Break Software Security (also very good) with Hugh Thompson, and co-wrote How To Break Web Software (haven't read it yet) with Mike Andrews. James' talks at Microsoft are always standing room only; this interview will give you a taste of why.

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