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Editor and Contributors xvii Alfonsina Morgavi is partner at QActions System SRL. Formorethan20yearsshehasbeenexclusivelydedicated to softwarequalityassuranceandqualitycontrol. She is the representative of Argentina in HASTQB (Hispanic America Software Qualification Board), a fre- quentspeaker innationaland internationaleventsandhas written several articles about related topics. She actively promotes the professionalization of the activity, ISTQB certifications, and the use of structured techniques and effective tools to support the achievement of maturity in functional, automated, performance and security tests. Duringhermore than20yearsofpractice she has trained many testing teams not only in Argentina but also in other countries in the region, and created and organized a considerable number of productive testing teams, for continuousimprovementof their technical skills. ZornitsaNikolova is a co-founderandmanagingpartner at Leanify Ltd.—a company focused on Lean and Agile training,mentoring,andcoaching.Zornitsahasextensive experience in softwareproductdevelopmentboth in large enterprisesand startups. Currently, she worksas a trainer andacoachwithcompaniesandindividualswhoarelook- ing to apply agile approaches to product development. In addition to her consulting practice, Zornitsa engages withstartupsasaco-founderandmentor.Shealsoteaches classes in agile software development and product man- agement at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) and the VUZF University in Bulgaria. Before her career as a trainer and coach, she worked at SAP as a development manager and product owner. Zornitsa holds an MA in International Relations, EMBA from Cotrugli Business School, andshe is aCertifiedScrumProductOwner(with Scrum Alliance), a Professional Scrum ProductOwner (with Scrum.org), and an Associated Certified Coach (with the InternationalCoachFederation). Gerard Numan has been a tester since 1998. He has internationalexperience invariouscontextsand rolesand is an experienced test trainer. He has published a book on E2E-testing and has spoken at conferences around the world on subjects such as E2E-testing, test process improvement, risks, critical thinking for testers, the soci- ology of testing and testing AI. Gerard works for Polteq Test ServicesB.V. in theNetherlands.