August 28, 2007 - Video from the 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference

Google posted these videos from their 2nd Annual GTAC - Google Test Automation Conference:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7D3E685B59779C16

Some of the most difficult challenges in creating great software are guaranteeing it works every time, for every customer, ensuring that it will scale well, and making it accessible to all users.

 

Over the years, languages have become easier to work with, frameworks have become extensible for the creation of several products, and integrated development environments have made the software developer faster and more productive.

 

But automation techniques, extensible testing frameworks, and easy-to-use test tools have lagged behind. While there are many good solutions for automated testing, there is plenty of room for innovation.

 

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

 

Our goal was to create a collegial atmosphere where participants could discuss challenges facing people on the cutting edge of test automation, evaluate solutions for meeting those challenges, and have a little fun.

See these topics:

• Allen Hutchison - First Principles
• Patrick Copeland - Keynote
• Simon Stewart - Web Driver
• Ryan Gerard and Ramya Venkataramu - Automated Test Hygiene via Community Reputation System or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0
• Heusser & McMillan - Interaction Based Testing
• Gregory Fresnais - Worksuite Manager
• Adam Porter & Atif Memon - Skoll DCQAS
• Vivek Prahlad-Testing Swing Apps w/ Frankenstein
• Chow&Etchebere - Buiding Framework Around Selenium
• Allen Hutchison - Day Two Opening Remarks
• Douglas Sellers - CustomInk DSL
• Risto Kampulainen - F-Secure's Linux/UNIX Anti-Virus Products
• Jason Huggins - Extending Selenium
• Ali-Akber Saifee - Muvee Framework for Autonomous Testing
• H.Ziv & K.Windbladh - Specification based Testing
• Cedric Beust - Test NG
• Bob Cotton - Ruby Tools for Building Web Testing Frameworks
• Jeanne Boyarsky - Automated Defect Prevention
• S. McMillan - Taming the Beast: Getting Ugly Code Under Unit Test. (A True Story)
• Daryl Spitzer - Managing Thousands of Tests
• Robert Sayre - Don't Break the Web Automated Tests @ Mozilla.com
• Steve Freeman - "Listening to Code Smells" What Bad Unit Tests are Telling You About your Code
• Steve Kosanovich - Code Free, Web Regression Testing
• Bill Schongar - Making Automated Testing Less Frightening For New Testers, Non-Testers and Developers
• Huggins & Stewart - Selenium-RC Vs WebDriver
• John Thomas - DSL: Not Just a Business Language!
• Ed Keyes - Sufficiently Advanced Monitoring is Indistinguishable from Testing