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.[1] He has also worked as a user interface designer.
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."[1]
Publicationsedit
Booksedit
Testing Computer Software (1st ed.). N.p.: TAB Professional & Reference Books. December 1987. ISBN 0-8306-9563-X.
Testing Computer Software (2nd ed.). N.p.: International Thomson Computer Press. 1993. ISBN 0-442-01361-2. (with coauthors Jack Falk and Hung Q. Nguyen)
Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 28 September 1998. ISBN 0-471-31826-4. (with coauthor David L. Pels)
Testing Computer Software (2nd (softback) ed.). New York: Wiley. 12 April 1999 [1993]. 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.)
Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-driven Approach. New York: Wiley. 15 December 2001. ISBN 0-471-08112-4. LCC QA76.76.T48 K34 2001. (with coauthors James Bach and Bret Pettichord and editor Margaret Eldridge)
The Domain Testing Workbook. Context Driven Press. 30 October 2013. ISBN 978-0989811903. (with coauthors Sowmya Padmanabhan and Douglas Hoffman)
Foundations of Software Testing Workbook. Context Driven Press. 30 December 2013. ISBN 978-0989811927. (with coauthor Rebecca L. Fiedler)
Articlesedit
"A Better Random Number Generator for Apple's Floating Point BASIC" (PDF). MICRO. June 1984. pp. 26–35. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-07-15. Retrieved 2006-07-27. (with coauthor John R. Vokey)
"Liability for Defective Documentation" (PDF). Software QA Quarterly. 2 (3): 8–13. 1995. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-08-15. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
"Bad Software—Who is Liable?" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Society for Quality's 52nd Annual Quality Congress. May 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-12-06. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
"Article 2B and Reverse Engineering" (PDF). Uniform Commercial Code Bulletin. November 1998. pp. 1–9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-12-06. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
"Recruiting Software Testers" (PDF). 12th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week). San Jose, CA. June 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-06-09. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
"UCITA: A disaster in progress" (PDF). IEEE Spectrum. 39 (8): 13–15. August 2002. doi:10.1109/MSPEC.2002.1021944. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-08-15. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
Referencesedit
^ abcKaner, Cem (31 August 2004). "They fail to give their advertised discount (Part 2)". Alienware Sucks!. badsoftware.com. Archived from the original (Blog) on 2006-08-05. Retrieved 2006-07-27. See #Publications above for details on editions of Testing Computer Software.
^Kaner, Cem; Registered Agent; Association for Software Testing (14 April 2004). "Articles of Incorporation of Association for Software Testing, Inc" (PDF). Association for Software Testing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-07-13. Retrieved 2006-07-28.
^Kaner, Cem (c. 2003). "About Me". kaner.com. Archived from the original on 2006-07-17. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
External linksedit
Official Cem Kaner homepage Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
Official blog Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine "On the craft and community of software testing"
Center for Software Testing Education & Research at Florida Tech
FIT Faculty Profile Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine