Chetankumar D. Akarte has been working in PHP, JavaScript and .Net for the last five years. He has worked extensively on both small scale and large scale PHP and .Net ecommerce, social networking, Wordpress and Joomla based web projects. Over the years, Chetan has been actively involved in the "Xfunda Developers Community". He has regularly blogged on Microsoft .NET technology at http://www.tipsntracks.com.
Chetan completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from the Nagpur University, India in 2006. He likes contributing to newsgroups, and forums. He has also written some articles for Electronics For You, DeveloperIQ, and Flash & Flex Developer's magazines.
Chetan lives in Navi Mumbai, India. You can visit his websites at http://www.xfunda.com and http://www.tipsntracks.com, or get in touch with him at <[email protected]>.
Kenneth Geisshirt is a chemist by education and a geek by nature. He has been programing for more than 25 years—the last six years as a subcontractor. In 1990 Kenneth first used free software, and in 1992 turned to Linux as a primary operating system (officially Linux user no. 573 at the Linux Counter). He has written books about Linux, PAM, and Javascript and many articles on open source software for computer magazines. Moreover, Kenneth has been a technical reviewer of books on Linux network administration and the Vim editor.
Stefano Provenzano is an Italian senior consultant and professional software engineer. Stefano has worked on several projects in different fields of computer science 3D realtime engines for PC and Playstation games, visual simulation and virtual prototyping, web applications, and system integration. In 2006, Stefano started his own software development and consulting company, Shin Software. Currently, Stefano is developing CRM and INTRANET applications by using PHP and Javascript.
Aaron Saray found love when he was eight. It was in the shapely form of a Commodore 64. From then on, he continued to devote his time to various programing languages from BASIC to Pascal, PHP to Javascript, HTML to CSS. Aaron is both an author of a PHP Design Patterns book and a technical editor of other PHP and Javascript books. He has also worked as a professional in the Web Development field for almost a decade, and comes with a solid history to provide his vast experience to the review of this book. You can find more about his work at his technical blog by visiting http://aaronsaray.com/blog.
Mihai Vilcu has had exposure to top technologies in testing for both automated and manual testing. "Software testing excellence" is the motto that drives Mihai's career". This includes functional and non-functional testing. Mihai was also involved over several years in large scale testing projects.
Some of the applications covered by Mihai in his career include CRMs, ERPs, billing platforms, rating, collection and business process management applications.
As software platforms are used intensely in many industries, Mihai has performed testing in fields like telecom, banking, healthcare, software development, and others.
Feel free to contact Mihai for questions regarding testing on his email: <[email protected]>, or directly on his website at www.mvfirst.ro.