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Editor and Contributors xv PaulGerrard isaconsultant, teacher,author,webmaster, programmer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and publisher. He has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specializing in test assurance. He has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them. Educated at the universities of Oxford and Imperial College London, he is a Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited, the host of the Assurance Leadership Forum and a business coach for Enterprising Macclesfield. He was the Programme Chair for the 2014 EuroSTAR con- ference in Dublin and for several other conferences in the last decade. In 2010 he won the EuroSTAR Testing ExcellenceAward, in2013theinauguralTESTALifetime Achievement Award and in 2018 the ISTQB Testing Excellence Award. He is currently working with an Irish governmentagencytocreateafutureskills frameworkfor software testers. Elmar Juergens is founder of CQSE GmbH and con- sultant for software quality. He studied computer science at the Technische Universität München and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and received a PhD in software engineering. Tilo Linz is boardmemberand co-founderof imbusAG, a leading solution provider for software testing, and has been active in the field of software quality and software testing for more than 25 years. As founder and chairman of the German Testing Board and founding member of ASQF and ISTQB, he has playeda major role in shaping and advancing education and training in this field on a nationaland international level.Tilo is authorof“Testing in Scrum” and co-author of “Software Testing Founda- tions”.