Arunkumar Khannur is an Internationally reputed Software Testing Guru, India’s Noted Software Testing Authority, and Author of best-selling book “Software Testing-Techniques and Applications”. He is regarded as one of the industry’s foremost authorities on Software Testing. He contributes as an Advisor, Author, Speaker and Senior Faculty. Mr. Khannur’s IT career spans 24+ years during which he held various IT roles in Wipro, Logica, Planetasia, and QAI. He has M.Sc in Physics & M.Tech in Computer Science to his credit. Mr. Khannur played an instrumental role in India in making Software Testing as a major business vertical. He has organized many conferences and test related forums across India to share test related practices. . He spear heads STEP-AUTO Software Testing Conferences (www.stepauto.com) . Mr. Khannur was also an Organizing Committee Chair of European Telecom Standards Institute’s (ETSI) TTCN-3 User Conference Asia 2009 and also, 2012. He served as an Advisory Board Member of International Institute of Software Testing (IIST), USA and contributed in defining testing Book of Knowledge. He is a frequent speaker on software testing at conferences and delivered key notes and speeches at conferences in India, Srilanka, Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Slovenia. He is providing his training and advisory services in Argentina, Russia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Srilanka. He delivered a Key Note on “Future Testing Challenges” at TTCN-3 User Conference 2011 held at Bled, Slovenia. Mr. Khannur authored 5 books including his recent book- “Software Testing- Techniques and Applications” by Pearson Publsihers. Mr. Khannur added a lot of value through his unmatched expertise through consulting, advisory and training services in software testing, project management, and CMMI to more than 45 companies in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Argentina, Russia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Srilanka..and also, to UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization through his best of the class programs in software engineering subjects, software testing, CMMI based software process improvement, and software project management and estimation. Mr. Khannur’s areas of research are- Test Architecture, Test Strategy, Test Management, Testing Methodologies, Testing Approaches, Model Based Testing, Test Case Optimization, Test Metrics and Measurements. He also helps organizations in Test Process Improvement by building test competency and capability. He pe