Gmail: Behind the Scenes (Final Cut)

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GTAC 2007: H.Ziv & K.Windbladh – Specification based Testing

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) at our New York office.
Hadar Ziv and Kristina Windbladh. Specification-based Testing.

Professor Hadar Ziv, with the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at UC Irvine, has 20+ years of experience in academia and industry. Most recently, he presented his work at Google, Northrop Grumman, and the Southern California SPIN, and served on the program committee of the ROSATEA 2007 workshop. His most recent papers appeared in ROSATEA 2007, 2006, and the October 2006 issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). He has worked as consultant and change agent for several organizations wishing to upgrade their software development to include use cases, object-oriented analysis and design with UML, and corresponding test strategies. Hadar has provided consulting, training and mentoring to, among others, the Capital Group Companies, Fidelity National Title, Logicon (now Northrop Grumman), Beckman Coulter, and most recently, St. Jude Medical (NYSE: SJM)

Kristina Winbladh is about to start her third year as a PhD student in Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her main research interests are in software testing and requirements engineering, and particularly in bridging the two disciplines with the goal of producing better quality software. During her first two years of graduate school, her attempts to improve software testing techniques has earned her several workshop and conference publications as well as an internship with Google.

GTAC 2007: Ali Saifee – Muvee Framework for Autonomous Test

Ali-Akber Saifee – Muvee Framework for Autonomous Testing

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

Ali was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. His hobbies then were to water the garden and eat mushroom soup. At the age of four, he moved to Karachi, Pakistan. His interests diversified and he discovered the Commodore 64. At the age of 7 he pulled out the manual and wrote his first piece of software – a small red bouncing ball (similar to the game bricks – but without the bricks, and a point). Later, he moved to Montreal, Canada to pay for a stamp on a big piece of card paper that would ensure him a livelihood. Instead, he discovered embedded systems, human computer interaction and the study of software engineering practices. He now lives on a small island called Singapore and specializes in software quality automation and setup engineering. He believes that the Pick of Destiny is real and has named his first test machine Deepthought; in the hope that he will one day find yet another meaning of life (translated to: “he likes playing the guitar” and “he likes writings by Douglas Adams”). He admits to being long winded.