I need a name that personifies rigorous testing
May 13, 2019 12:46 PM Subscribe
I am naming a semi-serious award and I need help brainstorming names that exemplify systematic testing procedures.
Every semester in my engineering class I try to recognize standout accomplishments by the students with appropriately-named awards. This time I have a team that organized the most systematic and well documented robot-testing procedures we've ever seen and I'm drawing a bit of a blank. Just as a concrete example, my first set of options is:
* William Sealy Gossett (arguably the progenitor of A/B testing)
* Chuck Yeager (excellence in flight testing)
* Bill Tindall (excellence in project management)
I don't know enough about the history of testing/qa/project management and would love to learn who the exemplars really are.
Every semester in my engineering class I try to recognize standout accomplishments by the students with appropriately-named awards. This time I have a team that organized the most systematic and well documented robot-testing procedures we've ever seen and I'm drawing a bit of a blank. Just as a concrete example, my first set of options is:
* William Sealy Gossett (arguably the progenitor of A/B testing)
* Chuck Yeager (excellence in flight testing)
* Bill Tindall (excellence in project management)
I don't know enough about the history of testing/qa/project management and would love to learn who the exemplars really are.
Best answer: Frederick Taylor; seems especially appropriate for robot-testing because some criticize him for making a world in which "employees are treated as robots."
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 1:01 PM on May 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 1:01 PM on May 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
Best answer: George Devol
Joseph Engelberger
Simone Giertz!!!
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 1:03 PM on May 13, 2019
Joseph Engelberger
Simone Giertz!!!
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 1:03 PM on May 13, 2019
Best answer: SPrintF beat me to it. +1 on Deming - he focused on rigorous testing, and human-centered design.
posted by SoundInhabitant at 1:10 PM on May 13, 2019
posted by SoundInhabitant at 1:10 PM on May 13, 2019
Best answer: Lillian and Frank Gilbreth maybe? Well known enough to have feature films made about them at one point.
posted by Leon at 1:15 PM on May 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Leon at 1:15 PM on May 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Robots, you say?
The Karel and Josef Čapek Award.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:23 PM on May 13, 2019
The Karel and Josef Čapek Award.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:23 PM on May 13, 2019
Best answer: There's already a Deming award. Also a Deming Prize. That's more recognition than I think he's worth, TBH.
How about
The Gauntlet Award
posted by Kirth Gerson at 5:22 PM on May 13, 2019
How about
The Gauntlet Award
posted by Kirth Gerson at 5:22 PM on May 13, 2019
Best answer: John Stapp, the rocket sled guy. Gotta love that Time magazine cover.
posted by at at 5:23 AM on May 14, 2019
posted by at at 5:23 AM on May 14, 2019
Response by poster: You are all geniuses every one and I'm extremely grateful. For extracurricular reasons (the students are also an inseparable couple, their testing greatly resembled "time and motion" studies although in a very different vein, I like telling stories about prominent female engineers) we're going to go with the Lillian and Frank Gilbreth Award but GOD DAMN am I tempted to name it after Aperture Science instead.
posted by range at 9:49 AM on May 14, 2019
posted by range at 9:49 AM on May 14, 2019
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posted by SPrintF at 12:51 PM on May 13, 2019 [1 favorite]