BIT Department's Jasmine Jackson earns the Dave J. Miller Excellence Award
For release: May 10, 2017
At the 10th International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Software Testing,
held at the FedEx Institute of Technology, BIT student Jasmine Jackson received the
Dave J. Miller Excellence Award for outstanding achievement in software testing coursework.
The award comes with a stipend for Ms. Jackson. Dave Miller personally presented this
award in front of an audience of 95 testing professionals and academics who were attending
the workshop run by the System Testing Excellence Program (STEP). STEP is an interdisciplinary
research program that brings together the Departments of Business Information and
Technology, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering to engage with industry partners
in advancing the science of software testing.
"I was honored and thrilled to present the Excellence Award to Jasmine for all of the exceptional work she has done in software testing," said Dave Miller, former VP of IT at FedEx Services, owner of Miller Mentoring and Consulting, and co-founder of STEP. "Jasmine is a model for others, demonstrating talent and character in her work. She will always be remembered as being the first to earn this award. I am extremely proud of her for representing the essence of excellence in software testing."