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Founder and Principal Ståle Amland.

Ståle Amland was born in 1961. He has a Master of Science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1985, Industrial Economics.

He has held different positions such as programmer, project manager, tester / test manager, business analyst, principal consultant and managing director by different software houses and consulting companies since 1985. He has done consulting in a wide range of businesses, including finance, telecommunication, energy and transportation.

Ståle's main focus over the last 8 years has been improving the test process and test management by focusing on risk and costs. His idea has been to add value to his clients, not by revolution of existing methodologies and techniques, but by improving step by step. An important part of this has been to be involved in new technology and teach people how do Exploratory Testing and how to test in for example WEB projects using Java with Extreme Programming (XP) or other Agile Methods.

Ståle is a frequent presenter at conferences in Europe and USA. He received "Best Paper Award" at EuroSTAR 1999.

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Amland Consulting has presented at the following events:

2002

Managing Exploratory Testing, with Jarle Våga, December 2, Dataforeningen Bergen, Norway

Exploratory Testing - Tutorial, EuroSTAR 2002, Edinburg, November 11 - 15, 2002 (planned)

Managing Exploratory Testing, SAST, Stockholm, Sweden, September 19, 2002

Managing Exploratory Testing - Track presentation, ICSTEST-UK, September 3 - 4, London, UK.

Risk-Based Exploratory Testing - Tutorial, ICSTEST, April 15 - 19, Düsseldorf, Germany

Managing Exploratory Testing - Track presentation, ICSTEST, April 15 - 19, Düsseldorf, Germany

2001

Tutorial at EuroSTAR 2001, Stockholm, November 19 - 23; "Risk-Based Testing".

Presentation at TestNet, Amersfoort, the Netherlands, 30.5: "Experiences from a TPI® assessment at a large Telecommunication Company".

Instructor for a full training day 29.5 at TE-C Denmark. Presented test process improvement, risk-based testing, metrics in test projects and experiences from WEB-testing.

Instructor "Principals of Functional testing", Rational training course for Scandianvian IT Group, Copenhagen, May 7 - 9.

"Using Managed Test Teams", ICSTEST 2001, Bonn, 4. - 6- april.

"Risikoanalyse og testing", part of "Test av IT-systemer" on Software 2001 organised by Den norske Dataforening. Member of program committee.

2000

"Risk-based testing: Risk analysis fundamentals and metrics for software testing including a financial application case study", Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 53, Issue 3, 15.9.2000, Elsevier publishing.

"Experiences with Risk Based Testing and Metrics", TCS 2000, Washington D.C, June 12. - 16.

"Controlling Risk in e-business Projects", TE/Compuware seminar, Stockholm, Mai 23.

"Risk Based Testing and Metrics", TEST Congress, London, May 8. - 12.

"Risk Based Testing and Metrics", ICSTEST 2000, Bonn, April 4. - 7.

"Risk Based Testing and Metrics", SAST (Swedish Association of Software Testers), Stockholm, February 14. 2000.

1999

"Risk Based Testing and Metrics", EuroSTAR, Barcelona, November 8. - 12. Received "Best Paper Award 1999"

"Størst mulig udbytte af testindsatsen", Dansk Dataforening, Copenhagen, November 3.

Participated with appendix: "Test automation failures: lessons to be learned" in the book Software Test Automation by Mark Fewster and Dorothy Graham, Addison-Wesley, Great Britain 1999. ISBN 0-201-33140-3.

"Risk Based Testing and Metrics", TCS '99, Washington D.C., June 14. - 18.

"Test Automation Failures - lessons to be learned", DEV-TEST (Spring) '99, Unicom Seminar, London May 28.

1998

"Risk Based Testing", Quality Week Europe '98, Brussel November 11.

"Risk Based Testing and Metrics", Unicom Seminar, London November 3.

"Risk Based Testing", TCS '98, Washington D.C., June.

"År 2000 Science Fiction eller virkelighet?", customer seminar Zürich Forsikring (Insurance), Oslo February 11 and 25.

1997

"Test elle dø", Y2K testing, DnD conference InfoTech '97, Oslo, October 29.

"Test automation Failures - Lessons to be learned", Unicom Seminar, London UK, October 22.

"Risk Based testing of Large Financial Application", 14th International Conference and Exposition on Testing Computer Software(TCS) '97, Washington D.C., June.

1996

"Risk Based testing of Large Financial Application", EuroSTAR '96, Amsterdam December.

"Risk Based testing of Large Financial Application", Software Quality Week '96, San Francisco, May.