Google Test Automation Conference 2009 - Zurich, Switzerland

Google Testing Blog: Google Test Automation Conference 2009 - Zurich, Switzerland

The word is out, We will be having my all time favorite conference i.e GTAC on October 21 and 22 at the Google offices in Zurich, Switzerland.

I am sure this time we gonna create some noise on twitter with #gtac.

Selnium On Rails- by Eric Smith

Eric Smith the current maintainer of Selenium On Rails delivered a presentation on it at Scotland on Rails.
I found it pretty informative and loved it's integration with rails. As a selenium RC user I like to have more control over the entire configuration but its not the easiest thing to do with RC.

On the other hand if you are using Rails, Selenium on Rails is the easiest way to have Automated Acceptance tests.

Check out the video (this and rest of the videos of Scotland On Rails are hosted by engine yard).

I can't avoid it any longer Oracle Anonces to Acquire Sun

I have avoided to use Oracle's apps for long long time, But can't do that any more.

Its all done Oracle have Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun)

Now there is no escape at least for me to use Oracle.

For details see.

Oracle buys Sun Microsystems; tries to become the Apple of the enterprise

Or visit http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2009-0420/index.jsp

Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q1 2009) from Jurgen Appelo

The updated list of Top 100 blogs for developer from Jurgen Appelo for Quarter 1 2009 is out, I have always enjoyed reading posts on http://www.noop.nl.

What exactly is there for a software Tester:
There are many reason a Tester should follow these blogs just for example:

1. Its such a Treat to read: Beautifully written, ranking have been explained and blogs which are not recently updated are no longer part of the list.

2. One can find a great list to follow on twitter: Just clicked on the link at column Author / Twitter in from of the blog.

3. You will find some great software testers in that list: (Though this has nothing to do with their credibility as a Tester or as Tester's Mentor) Its good to see James Bach’s Blog among top 30, Tester Tested! have made to the list (last time he was in bonus 25 blogs worth reading)

Thanks a lot for the effort Jurgen Appelo.

Time to sync the list in my rss reader :)

Having fun with geany:

Its my tester's instinct which enforce me to try out all those different things (most of them are Open Source), it ranges from ruby/rails, groovy/grails, Flex, Air to Editors/IDEs like Netbeans, pimped Gedit .

In trying out all those different things I came across geany A wonderful lightweight IDE/Code Editor.

This is looking really good.

It has Third-Party packages, Few Extras and lots of plugins (svn checkout http://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geany-plugins/trunk/ geany-plugins-trunk) build them from source and have fun.

Why are these Google pages not consistent?

I still see 2008 @ the footer of few google apps.
Here are couple of screen shoots:
@ Google Code (Any hosted project e.g able)


@ App Engine:


This might not seem to be a big deal to many, but according to Adam Goucher "A Stale Site is a Buggy Site"..

I know in last few weeks google made into news for not good reasons first there was "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?! Then The Gmail Outage.

Now even the blogger app is showing 2008

...

There is one more funny thing:

I subscribe to a feed and google showed me this funny message

..

Any one else observing this?

GTAC Videos and Slides Available

 

 

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GTAC Videos and Slides Available

via Google Testing Blog by Patrick Copeland on 12/12/08

Posted by Lydia Ash, GTAC Conference Chair

The Google Test Automation Conference 2008 was a smashing success, and in no small part due to all of our presenters and participants. A wonderful thank you from all of us at Google to everyone that participated! The tone of the conference really struck me as I watched how everyone came together around various topics. I don't think we would have had trouble keeping the conversations going if there was an entire day dedicated to the moderated discussions.

We were able to get the slide decks from our presenters. These are listed below with their video link.
We will be evaluating what location the next GTAC should be held, and your comments will help shape the next conference. Building on the successes in the past, next year should be even better! Stay tuned for a Save the Date notice sometime in the spring.

Opening Remarks - Lydia Ash
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QmHXcNk4g

The Future of Testing - James A. Whittaker
Video coming soon...

Advances in Automated Software Testing Technologies - Elfriede Dustin and Marcus Borch
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpSdSyU03I

Boosting Your Testing Productivity with Groovy - Andres Almiray
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvWTfVCWKJY
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/aalmiray/gtac-boosting-your-testing-productivity-with-groovy/

Taming the Beast: How to Test an AJAX Application - Markus Clermont and John Thomas
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jjrTBFZWgk
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_62gccsc9gg

The New Genomics: Software Development at Petabyte Scale - Matt Wood
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64WKH9gNI8
Slides part 1: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_3318qqfb6f5
Slides part 2: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_393d7zg4xcm

Using Cloud Computing to Automate Full-Scale System Tests - Marc-Elian Bégin and Charles Loomis
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atyq-41Gnjc
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_251gcv8cbfv

Practicing Testability in the Real World - Vishal Chowdhary
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL829wNaF78
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_0hgd2w5rz

Context-Driven Test Automation: How to Build the System you Really Need - Pete Schneider
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9sm_zcpUEw
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_236ccxj32fd

Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications - Atif M. Memon and Oluwaseun Akinmade
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdsIVvxISU
Slides: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~atif/GTAC08/

The Value of Small Tests - Christopher Semturs
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpG2i_6nkUg
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dckk962d_332cxtcsmhg

JInjector: A Coverage and End-To-End Testing Framework for J2ME and RIM - Julian Harty, Olivier Gaillard, and Michele Sama
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2v5jQ9NLVg
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_82d7w8bqd9

Atom Publishing Protocol: Testing your Server Implementation - David Calavera
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRmWTfT91uQ
Slides: http://thinkincode.net/gtac_atomPub_testing_your_server_implementation.pdf

Simple Tools to Fight the Bigger Quality Battle: Continuous Integration Using Batch Files
and Task Scheduler - Komal Joshi and Patrick Martin
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgP7ejMBCCU
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_141czcvc7md

 

 

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