Michael Hennell

Professor Michael A. Hennell (born 9 September 1940) is a British computer scientist who has made leading contributions in the field of software testing.[1]

Michael Hennell was a Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool in England.

As part of his leading role in software testing, Hennell was a member of the editorial board of the journal Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR), a major international journal in the field of software testing.[2]

Hennell's academic research was initially conducted in Nuclear physics, resulting in the use of Computational science for addressing complex nuclear mathematics.[3] Assessing the quality of the mathematical libraries on which this work depended lead Professor Hennell into the world of Software testing,[4][5][6] specifically in the use of Static code analysis for quantifying the effectiveness of test data,[7] which led to the development of the Linear Code Sequence and Jump concept.

In 1975 Professor Hennell founded Liverpool Data Research Associates Ltd. (LDRA) to commercialize the software test-bed designed to analyse numerical software.

References

1. Michael A. Hennell at DBLP Bibliography Server
2. [1] Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
3. M.A. Hennell, An effective Hamiltonian method for the solution of the Schrodinger equation. I. The one-dimensional problem, 1975 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 8 171-17
4. M. A. Hennell, An experimental testbed for numerical software. {I}. {Fortran}, The Computer Journal 21(4):333--336, @nov, 1978
5. M. A. Hennell and D. Hedley, An experimental testbed for numerical software. {II}. {ALGOL 68}, The Computer Journal 22(1):53--56, @feb, 1979
6. M.A. Hennell, M.R. Woodward and D Hedley, Towards More Advanced Testing Techniques, Workshop on Reliable Software pp. 19-29., ed. by P. Raulefs, Hanser (Munchen-Wien) 1979 ISBN 3-446-12910-3
7. M.A. Hennell, D. Hedley and M.R. Woodward, Quantifying the Test Effectiveness of Algol 68 Programs, Proceedings of the Strathclyde ALGOL 68 conference 1977, pp. 36 - 41, ISSN 0362-1340