Team Members
Charlie Poole has spent more than 40 years as a software developer, designer, project manager, trainer and coach. After a long career in the government sector, he began working independently in 1996 with clients ranging from Microsoft to government agencies to internet startups. He is one of the authors of the NUnit testing framework and led that project from 2004 until 2017.
The name "TestCentric" comes from the notion of Test-Centric Development, an outgrowth of his work as an agile coach over the past 20 years. It signifies an approach where every decision made, from management down to the smallest detail of micro-testing, is verified by a test of some kind.
Now retired, Charlie continues to work on software projects like this one, conduct workshops and accept occasional short-term coaching jobs. See more at Charlie's website or his blog, It's the Tests.
Robert is a full time senior developer and in his spare time likes to contribute his time to open source projects or to help out people in their quest to be better developers. He has been a professional programmer since August 2011. During this time he has worked primarily in back-end programs for point-of-sale systems, survey platforms, IoT projects and many micro-services. Starting in 2019 he started streaming on twitch with some of his programming with the idea of working on other peoples projects with them and showing them the benefits of using tests and trying a test-first design. He is a father of 2 children and been married since March 2007. With the love and support of his family he has been able to pursue his passion for computer programming leaving after being let go from the construction industry back in December of 2009 during the recession.
Stefano is a certified tester, after a short career as developer he landed in software quality assurance and he didn't move since then. He is currently working as software quality engineer in a big company in Austria.
He went from being a heavy user of the NUnit framework to being one of the contributors of TestCentric after Hacktoberfest 2019.
