Alan Page

Whether it's a multi-day hands-on seminar, a keynote presentation, or something in between, Alan uses a mix of experience, humor, and common sense to get his points to stick.

Alan Page is a frequent speaker at software industry conferences, and has published several articles on software testing and quality in testing and software engineering magazines. Alan writes about testing on his blog http://angryweasel.com/blog, was the lead author on How We Test Software at Microsoft (Microsoft Press, 2008), and contributed a chapter to Beautiful Testing (O'Reilly Press, 2009).

Alan obtaining a Masters degree in music composition and completing a brief stint as a bicycle messenger, Alan began his career as a software tester in 1993, and joined Microsoft in 1995. He is currently a Principal SDET on the Office Communicator team, where he coaches and mentors testers and test managers across the organization on testing approaches and techniques. Alan also leads Microsoft's Test Architect Group and other internal quality and testing focused communities.

Before coming to Microsoft, Alan worked at a small software company developing and testing multimedia applications for Windows 3.1. His first job at Microsoft was testing networking functionality on Windows 95. Since then, hes worked on Internet Explorer (versions 2 & 3), Windows 98, Windows ahem...Millennium, as well as several versions of Windows CE.