Career
He is a proponent of exploratory testing and the context-driven school of software testing and is credited with developing session-based testing. Lessons Learned in Software Testing, a book he co-authored, has been cited over 130 times according to Google Scholar, and several of his articles have been cited dozens of times including his work on heuristics for testing and on the Capability Maturity Model. He has written numerous articles for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer.
In his autobiography, he reports that he worked as a software testing manager for Apple and Borland after dropping out of high school.
He also programmed Apple II and Commodore 64 ports of various titles for Spinnaker Software. He is the son of the author Richard Bach, and is the brother of Jonathan Bach who is also renown software tester.
Since 1999, he has worked as independent consultant out of Eastsound, Washington. On this basis, he was one of the expert witnesses in the Microsoft antitrust case: he determined that Microsoft could indeed unbundle Internet Explorer from the Windows operating system.
He is an advisor to the Lifeboat Foundation as a computing expert.
They cr him with developing the General Functionality and Stability Test Procedure for Microsoft, part of the Designed for Windows program
