About

I am Mike Stockdale, the founder and principal consultant of Syterra Software. Our focus is developing software for complex, safety-critical business domains, applying our expertise in object-oriented and functional programming, agile methods, automated testing and performance tuning to deliver high quality and cost-effective solutions.

Projects

Here are some projects that are underway or have been completed recently.

Commercial

• Positive Train Control: this safety-critical system integrates on-board locomotive system with central office rail traffic control to prevent dangerous train movements.
• Pipeline Management: a high-performance real-time application that provides a user scripting language to specify customized pipeline monitoring and operations logic.
• Rail Signals Logic Testing: a simulator for rail signals hardware that enables designers to perform extensive validation testing and ensure safe operation.
• Digital Press Management: this system uses customer work requests to select equipment, plan workflow and control print devices.

Open Source

• I am the prinicpal developer for fitSharp, a collection of automated integration testing tools for .NET.
• I was a major contributor to the FitNesse project, developing the wiki parsing and rendering engine.
• I'm currently working on an experimental evolution in integration testing frameworks.

Contact

You can reach me on Twitter.