Sascha Hackel is research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems in Berlin. As a member of the System Quality Competence Center, he is involved and responsible for validation and testing projects on next generation networks and software technologies. He has project experiences with the development and validation of test solutions in several industrial and research projects. Mr. Hackel has experience as an editor in standardization activities of ETSI. He actively supports the IDSA Certification working group towards an IDS certification program. As deputy head of the department software test in the area of Berlin and Brandenburg in the ASQF association, he is supporting expert networking and idea exchange in the field of software quality, software testing and other related IT topics.