The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007.

Daryl Spitzer – Managing Thousands of Tests

… Code Under Unit Test. (A True Story)

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007

S. McMillan

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007.

Jeanne Boyarsky – Automated Defect Prevention

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007

Bob Cotton – Ruby Tools for Building Web Testing

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24.

Cedric Beust TestNG

Cedric is a software engineer at Google. He is the creator of the testing framework TestNG and he regularly speaks at conferences about software testing and other programming related topics. His blog can be found at http://beust.com/weblog.

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference, August 23 and 24, 2007

Risto Kampulainen F-Secure’s Linux/UNIX Anti-Virus
Products.

Risto Kumpulainen works as Senior Quality Engineer at the F-Secure Corporation. He has worked in the company since year 2000 and has been working all the time in Linux/UNIX and multi-platform development projects. The focus of his work for the last five years has been testing and building test automation for server, desktop, gateway and other anti-virus products as a member of an agile development team. With a practical approach and clear vision he has together with the team managed to release several successful products.

Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, explores stars, planets, and more in the new Sky feature in Google Earth 4.2. Learn more at http://earth.google.com/

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007.

Ryan Gerard and Ramya Venkataramu – Automated Test Hygiene via Community Reputation System or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0

Talk Summary:
Typically in environments with large projects, one will find poorly written test cases and defects that have a questionable usefulness due to their poor quality. This results in reduced quality throughout the system due to missing information or poorly executed tests.

The concept of having a public reputation is a powerful one that is well utilized by popular ecommerce sites, and we’d like to introduce the idea of adding one to the test environment. A reputation system that is somewhat dependent upon Web 2.0-esque community participation makes for a powerful test environment that promotes automated “test hygiene”. By test hygiene, we mean better-written tests and defects that are readable, useful, and have all the information you require to run the test.

Ryan Gerard
Ryan Gerard is currently a Sr. QA Engineer at Symantec. He has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA, and is currently pursuing his MS in Information Security. Ryan’s particular specialties are in web technologies and security testing, although his interests span kernel-level technologies to process improvements to data analysis.

Ramya Venkataramu is an SQA Engineer at Symantec. She has completed her MS in Computer Science at San Jose State University, CA. Her major technical area of interest lies in the Security field.

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007.

Vivek Prahlad-Testing Swing Apps w/ Frankenstein
Functional Testing Swing Applications with Frankenstein

Vivek Prahlad is a Senior Developer at ThoughtWorks. He currently heads the Innovation and Open Source related activities at ThoughtWorks India. At ThoughtWorks, he has played several roles, from being a Technical Lead, Agile Coach to Project Manager. He occasionally blogs at ttp://blog.vivekprahlad.com Vivek is an avid bass player. He lives in Bangalore with his wife Oormila and their 1-year old daughter Samarra.