GTAC 2015: Schedule

  • The event takes place over two days, Tuesday, November 10, 2015, and Wednesday, November 11, 2015.

  • The schedule includes a variety of presentations and lightning talks from speakers across different companies and universities.

  • Topics covered include testing challenges, test automation, and test suite effectiveness.

  • Each day features breakfast, lunch, and breaks, with an evening dinner event on Tuesday and a happy hour on Wednesday.
All timings are in Eastern timezone (EST).

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2015
Time Duration Event Speaker Affiliation Topic
9:00 AM 45 min Registration/Breakfast Provided by Google    
9:45 AM 15 min Welcome & Opening Remarks Yvette Nameth Google  
10:00 AM 1 hour Presentation 1 (Keynote) Jürgen Allgayer Google Keynote
11:00 AM 30 min Presentation 2 Apple Chow and Bian Jiang Uber The Uber Challenge of Cross-Application/Cross-Device Testing
11:30 AM 30 min Break
12:00 PM 30 min Presentation 3 Hans Kuosmanen and Natalia Leinonen OptoFidelity Robot Assisted Test Automation
12:30 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 1 Dan Giovannelli Google Juggling Chainsaws for Fun and Profit: Lessons Learned from Mobile Cross-Platform Integration Testing
12:45 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 2 Jouko Kaasila Bitbar/Testdroid Mobile Game Test Automation Using Real Devices
01:00 PM 1 hour Lunch Provided by Google    
2:00 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 3 Toni Chang Google How to Component Test Soup Dumplings
2:15 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 4 Brian Gogan Google Chromecast Test Automation
2:30 PM 30 min Presentation 4 Shauvik Roy Choudhary Georgia Tech/Checkdroid Using Robots for Android App Testing
3:00 PM 30 min Presentation 5 Alister Scott Automattic Your Tests Aren't Flaky
3:30 PM 30 min Break      
4:00 PM 30 min Presentation 6 Adam Carmi Applitools Large-Scale Automated Visual Testing
4:30 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 5 Karin Lundberg and Puneet Khanduri Twitter Hands Off Regression Testing
4:45 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 6 Casey Burkhardt Google Automated Accessibility Testing for Android Applications
5:00 PM 15 min Closing Remarks      
5:15 PM 30 min Break      
5:45 PM 2 hours Dinner Google Casino Night    
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Time Duration Event Speaker Affiliation Topic
9:00 AM 45 min Breakfast Provided by Google    
9:45 AM 15 min Welcome to Day2/Opening Remarks Yvette Nameth Google  
10:00 AM 30 min Presentation 1 Celal Ziftci and Ben Greenberg Google Statistical Data Sampling
10:30 AM 30 min Presentation 2 Usman Abdullah and Giulia Guidi and Sam Gordon Nest Nest Automation Infrastructure
11:00 AM 30 min Presentation 3 Roussi Roussev Splunk Event Generators
11:30 AM 30 min Break      
12:00 PM 30 min Presentation 4 Murali Krishna Ramanathan Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Multithreaded Test Synthesis
12:30 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 1 Minal Mishra Netflix Enabling Streaming Experiments at Netflix
12:45 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 2 Yabin Kang LinkedIn Mock the Internet
01:00 PM 1 hour Lunch Provided by Google    
2:00 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 3 Andrew Knodt Lockheed Martin Effective Testing of a GPS Monitoring Station Receiver
2:15 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 4 Anurag Routroy Intel Automation on Wearable Devices
2:30 PM 30 min Presentation 5 Maxim Guenis Supersonic Unified Infra and CI Integration Testing (Docker/Vagrant)
3:00 PM 30 min Presentation 6 Patrick Lam University of Waterloo Test Suites and Program Analysis
03:30 PM 30 min Break      
4:00 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 5 Laura Inozemtseva University of Waterloo Coverage is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness
4:15 PM 15 min Lightning Talk 6 Matt Garrett Google Fake Backends with RpcReplay
4:30 PM 30 min Presentation 7 Simran Basi and Chris Sosa Google ChromeOS Test Automation Lab
5:00 PM 15 min Closing Remarks      
5:15 PM 45 min Break      
6:00 PM 2 hours Happy Hour Provided by Google