Juha Itkonen

Researcher, D.Sc. (Tech.)

Aalto University
School of Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Software Process Research Group (SoberIT)

firstname.lastname@aalto.fi
+358 50 577 1688



I work as a project researcher and a teacher in the Software Process Research Group (SPRG) at SoberIT. I did my doctoral research on exploratory and experience based software testing that is my main research interest.

I have completed my doctoral dissertation "Epirical Studies on Exploratory Software Testing" in 2011.

Research Interests

Research Projects

I focua on exploratory and experience based testing in my research. We recently completed ESPA research project where we researched software quality practices and quality improvement issues. ESPA builds on the research and experiences of the earlier SHAPE and SEMS research projects.

A fascinating open source project is the Agilefant.org project. Agilefant is a next-generation tool for managing agile software development. Agilefant.org has been developed in SoberIT since 2004.

Teaching Activities

Publications

You can browse summaries of my selected relevant publications in my Wiki pages. (also full text available for most articles)

Recent work

Itkonen J., "Empirical Studies on Exploratory Software Testing", Doctoral dissertation, Aalto University School of Science, Novembr 2011. (summary pdf)

Itkonen J., Mäntylä M. V., Lassenius C., "The Role of Knowledge in Failure Detection During Exploratory Software Testing", Under review for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, revised Feb 2012.

Mäntylä, M. V., Itkonen, J., Iivonen, J., "Who Tested My Software? Testing as an Organizationally Cross-Cutting Activity", Software Quality Journal, vol. 20(1), pp. 145-172, 2012. (link)

Itkonen J, M. V. Mäntylä and C. Lassenius. "How Do Testers Do It? An Exploratory Study on Manual Testing Practices", International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009.

Itkonen, J. "Do test cases really matter? An experiment comparing test case based and exploratory testing". Licentiate Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, 2008. (pdf)

Itkonen, J., M. V. Mäntylä and C. Lassenius. "Defect Detection Efficiency: Test Case Based vs. Exploratory Testing", in proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, pp. 61-70, 2007.

Itkonen, J. and K. Rautiainen. "Exploratory Testing: A Multiple Case Study", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2005), pp. 84-93, 2005.


List of my publications.

Hobbies and Interests

I also like sports like cycling, cross-country skiing, in-line skating, and kayaking - my approach to sports is more enjoying the nature than striving for competition or results, even though I'm a little bit obsessed to measuring and logging all activities. I used to enjoy scuba diving in murky and exciting Finnish waters as well as in clear-blue waters and breath-taking coral reefs around the world. You can find some of the best shots of these underwater experiences on our underwater photo pages and Flickr.


Contact information

See free/busy information in my calendar

Office Hours on request.