Shmuel Gershon has experience in both firmware and software testing; and also in coaching testers and helping friends. Today he works in Jerusalem testing firmware with a team of Super-Heroes, and his experience includes working for big companies, small companies, and as freelancer — spanning the world from South America to Israel. He used to be a programmer, but discovered that testing is twice the fun.
A frequent presenter at local and International software conferences, Shmuel is convinced that the most significant factor in our quest for quality is people, not features or technology. He writes about software testing at http://testing.gershon.info and @sgershon and published the open-source “Rapid Reporter”, an exploratory testing note taking tool.

Ruud is passionate about testing. Throughout his career he played almost any possible role in testing (tester, test manager, test trainer, coach, sales, manager, test consultant, …) in a variety of environments and at several companies. Ruud is coauthor of several books on structured testing, including Software Testing: A Guide to the TMap® Approach – the foundation of the TMap Next and TMap HD approach. He was Programme Chair of EuroSTAR in 2015. Currently he is test architect at Polteq Test Services BV; he focuses on (test) improvement, test management, test automation, testing, … in any context.