BIOGRAPHY

Julian Harty has been actively involved in the software testing world since 1999 when he realised testing was one way to help deliver better software for the ultimate users. Over the years he has run various companies, worked at Google for 4 years as a senior test engineer, and is currently the Tester At Large at eBay.

Much of his work is freely available online including various opensource projects, training material, and notes on test automation for web and mobile applications. He wrote the first book on test automation for smartphone applications, published articles, given tutorials and classes globally on testing and test automation. He’s also one of the editors, and the main author for the testing sections, for the popular Don’t Panic Mobile Developers Guide to the Galaxy book, the 10th edition is being launched in February 2012.

He has a BSc in Computer Science, and he holds distinctions in the ISEB software testing qualifications (he was also on the examination panel for several years).