Michael Hennell

Professor Michael A. Hennell (born 9 September 1940) is a British computer scientist who has made leading contributions in the field of software testing.^[1]

Michael Hennell was a Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool in England.

As part of his leading role in software testing, Hennell was a member of the editorial board of the journal Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR), a major international journal in the field of software testing.^[2]

Hennell's academic research was initially conducted in Nuclear physics, resulting in the use of Computational science for addressing complex nuclear mathematics.^[3] Assessing the quality of the mathematical libraries on which this work depended lead Professor Hennell into the world of Software testing,^[4][5][6] specifically in the use of Static code analysis for quantifying the effectiveness of test data,^[7] which led to the development of the Linear Code Sequence and Jump concept.

In 1975 Professor Hennell founded Liverpool Data Research Associates Ltd. (LDRA) to commercialize the software test-bed designed to analyse numerical software.