Elfriede Dustin, Thom Garrett, and Bernie Gauf work together at Innovative Defense Technologies, a leader in the design, development and implementation of automated software testing solutions. Dustin, leader of IDT's automated software testing research, is author of Effective Software Testing and Automated Software Testing. Garrett has 20 years' experience in planning, developing, testing, and deploying complex software systems for the Department of Defense and industry. At IDT, he has been lead engineer for several automated software testing projects. Gauf, President of IDT, actively participates in DoD panels on the use of new technology, and speaks at many leading testing conferences.