GTAC 2014: Schedule

  • The event is a two-day conference focusing on test automation.

  • The conference includes a variety of presentations and lightning talks from speakers across various companies and organizations, including Google, Mozilla, Facebook, and more.

  • Topics covered range from general principles of test automation to specific applications in areas like mobile, cloud, and web testing.

  • The schedule includes networking opportunities such as meals and round table discussions.

  • All listed times are in Pacific timezone (PDT).
All timings are in Pacific timezone (PDT).

Time Duration Event Speaker Affiliation Topic
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
9:00 AM 0:45:00 Registration / Breakfast      
9:45 AM 0:15:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks Sonal Shah Google  
10:00 AM 1:00:00 Presentation 1 (Keynote) Ankit Mehta Google Move Fast & Don't Break Things
11:00 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 2 James Graham Mozilla Automation for a Better Web
11:45 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 3 Karin Lundberg Google Make Chrome the best mobile browser
12:30 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 1 Nan Li Medidata Solutions A Test Automation Language for Behavioral Models
12:45 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 2 Andrei Chirila Google Test coverage at Google
1:00 PM 1:00:00 Lunch / Round table discussions
2:00 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 3 Ran Snir and Lior Reuven HP CATJS: Applications That Test Themselves
2:15 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 4 Vishal Arora Dropbox Scalable Continuous Integration - Using Open Source
2:30 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 4 Gareth Bowles Netflix I Don't Test Often ... But When I Do, I Test in Production
3:15 PM 0:30:00 Break      
3:45 PM 0:30:00 Presentation 5 Jay Srinivasan and Manish Lachwani Google The Importance of Automated Testing on Real and Virtual Mobile Devices
4:15 PM 0:30:00 Presentation 6 Celal Ziftci Google Free Tests Are Better Than Free Bananas: Using Data Mining and Machine Learning To Automate Real-Time Production Monitoring
4:45 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 7 Olivier Etienne Orange Test Automation on an Infrared Set-top Box
5:30 PM 0:15:00 Closing Remarks      
5:45 PM   Dinner      
Time Duration Event Speaker Affiliation Topic
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
9:00 AM 00:45:00 Breakfast      
9:45 AM 0:15:00 Opening Remarks      
10:00 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 1 Anthony Voellm Google The Challenge of Fairly Comparing Cloud Providers and What We're Doing About It
10:45 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 2 Roy Williams Facebook Never Send a Human to do a Machine’s Job: How Facebook uses bots to manage tests
11:30 AM 0:15:00 Break      
11:45 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 3 Michael Bailey American Express Espresso, Spoon, Wiremock, Oh my! ( or how I learned to stop worrying and love Android testing )
12:30 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 1 Brian Vance Google Google BigQuery Analytics
12:45 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 2 Dominik Dary Adobe Selendroid - Selenium for Android
1:00 PM 01:00:00 Lunch / Round table discussions
2:00 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 3 Amit Easow Comcast Maintaining Sanity In A Hypermedia World
2:15 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 4 Bryan Robbins and Daniel Koo FINRA Fire Away Sooner And Faster With MSL!
2:30 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 4 Alex Eagle Google The Testing User Experience
3:15 PM 0:45:00 Round Table Presentations
4:00 PM 0:30:00 Presentation 5 Zack Newsham University of Waterloo Impact of Community Structure on SAT Solver Performance
4:30 PM 0:30:00 Presentation 6 Patrick Lam University of Waterloo Beyond Coverage: What Lurks in Test Suites?
5:00 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 7 Thomas Knych, Stefan Ramsauer, Valera Zakharov and Vishal Sethia Google Going Green: Cleaning up the Toxic Mobile Environment
5:45 PM 0:15:00 Closing Remarks      
6:00 PM   Drinks & Snacks