Thursday, 18 September 2008

Google Test Automation Conference 2008

I have just got back to work from my summer holidays to find a nice little gift waiting for me in my Inbox!

I have been given an invite to the Google Test Automation Conference(GTAC) in Seattle, USA! GTAC for those who don't know is the annual conference that Google hold. Its an invite only conference where people can just let their geekyness flow!

This year its being held in Seattle, USA. Last year it was held in New York and the year before that it was in London.

Below is a list of the presentations at the conference

Scheduled Presentations

* Atom Publishing Protocol, Testing a Server Implementation by David Calavera
* JInjector: a Coverage and End-To-End Testing Framework for J2ME and RIM by Julian Harty, Olivier Gaillard, and Michael Sama
* Advances in Automated Software Testing Technologies by Elfriede Dustin
* Taming the Beast: How to test an AJAX Application by Markus Clermont and John Thomas
* Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications by Oluwaseun Akinmade and Prof. Atif M Memon
* Boosting Your Testing Productivity with Groovy by Andres Almiray
* Practicing Testability in the Real World by Vishal Chowdhary
* The New Genomics: Software Development at Petabyte Scale by Matt Wood
* The Value of Small Tests by Christopher Semturs
* Deployment and Test Automation: Extending the Notion of 'Done' to 'System Tested on a Production Deployment' by Marc-Elian Begin

I am going to try my best to update my blog while I am there so people know how its going. If anyone reading my blog is going conference drop me an email so we can meet up and talk shop!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah! so that's why you are going. Congratulations!

Marlena Compton said...

Thanks for the comment! I read some of your posts and they are quite interesting. Let me know if you'd like to meet up at the conference. Good luck with the jet lag.

http://marlenacompton.blogspot.com/