Dan Woodward
Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Woodward is a software testing professional and toolsmith with over 20 years of experience delivering pragmatic testing solutions across diverse industries from his base in Brookfield, Wisconsin. He specializes in test process improvement, automated and manual testing, and building tools and processes that fit a client's specific context rather than forcing one-size-fits-all approaches. With roughly 15 years of hands-on experience, he pairs deep quality-assurance expertise with a developer's mindset, often contributing backend fixes and enhancements to open-source testing tools. His contributions to the well-known FitNesse project show a knack for addressing subtle integration and execution issues—like environment-variable support for symbolic links and scenario argument handling—that improve reuse and reliability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex testing needs into repeatable, automated workflows that reduce risk and speed delivery. He brings a practical, results-first approach and an eye for the small technical details that make large testing efforts scalable.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
javas10
fitnesse10
java10
testing9
wikitext8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
unclebob/fitnesse
Jan 2011 - Apr 2020
FitNesse -- The Acceptance Test Wiki
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 3 pushes, 47 comments in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan's contributions focused on improving FitNesse's core functionality. They implemented environment variable support for symbolic links, enabling the reuse of information from different wikis. Further enhancements included fixing line inconsistencies when tables end with a specific character and modifying scenario tables to handle argument references. Additionally, the user merged several branches, including one related to scenario argument improvements, and also made adjustments related to test execution and output formatting.
wikiacceptancefitnesse
woodybrood/fitnessedotorg
Feb 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 2 months
fitnesse
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