Gianni is a simple guy from Livorno (a beautiful port city in Tuscany) who never thought he would end up with a Ph.D. at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, cern.ch) and then working for a prestigious company in Switzerland. But he always knew that at some point in his life, he would have written a book.
In his early career as a software developer, he built some C/C++ code but, pretty soon, debugging null pointer exceptions drove him crazy. He then decided he would be better off testing software rather than building it.
Wherever he worked, he tried to push for automating tests. Because manual testing, let’s be honest, is not fun, and it can be dangerously repetitive. People at work must have fun, if possible. At Touring Club Suisse, he defined an IT Test Strategy stating “Test automation is developers’ stuff” until he discovered Boozang. And then, in his first two hours of using this tool, he thought, “Man, this is fun!”.
Thus, he finally found a good topic for his book.