Gerry Coleman

Gerry Coleman is a member of the Department of Visual and Human-Centred Computing at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland where he specialises in teaching software engineering, with a particular focus on agile methodologies and software testing.

He has over 30 years experience in the IT industry as a practitioner, academic and researcher and received his PhD from Dublin City University for research into software process improvement in the indigenous Irish software industry. Prior to taking up an academic position, he worked as a software developer, systems/business analyst and project manager in the financial sector and was a senior consultant, with responsibility for research, and technology training and transfer, in the Centre for Software Engineering at Dublin City University. He now engages in software development consultancy, bringing the benefits of Scrum to small software teams.

Having published significantly in excess of 100 papers, and presented at conferences and events worldwide, Gerry is a programme committee member for several widely-recognised international conferences and has for many years been a reviewer for the Journal of Systems and Software and the Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice.

He is co-author of the ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester Extension syllabus and co-author of the book 'Agile Testing Foundations: An ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester Guide'. Gerry is a former Director of the Irish Software Testing Board.