Dorothy Graham (Dot) has been involved in software testing for over 50 years, since her first job at Bell Labs in the US. In the 1990s she set up Grove Consultants and was involved in the creation of a qualification for testers, helping to develop the first Foundation Syllabus. Grove (now Grove Software Testing Ltd) licenses high-quality ISTQB training material and Dot acts as an advisor. She was a facilitator at the meeting that formed ISTQB in 2001 and helped to write the first ISTQB Foundation Syllabus. Dot is co-author of a range of books including Foundations of Software Testing: ISTQB, Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, Experiences of Software Test Automation and A Journey Through Test Automation Patterns. She has also spoken at over 400 testing conferences and events worldwide, and was awarded the European Excellence Award in Software Testing in 1999 and the first ISTQB Excellence Award in Software Testing in 2012.
