GTAC 2013: Schedule

  • The conference covered a range of topics in test automation, including evolution from QA to test engineering, testing systems at scale, mobile OS testing, and mobile automation in continuous delivery.

  • Presentations and lightning talks addressed specific testing tools and approaches such as Webdriver for Chrome, Karma for JavaScript, automated video quality measurements, and testing educational gaming applications.

  • Day two focused on test automation for specific technologies and platforms, including testable JavaScript architecture, Android testing at scale, Android UI automation, and mobile app automation with Appium.

  • Further discussions included building scalable mobile test infrastructure, new Android UI testing tools like Espresso, web performance testing with WebDriver, continuous maps data testing, and automatically identifying culprits in failing builds.

  • The event concluded with insights into software product line quality, dynamic testing tools for C++, and large-scale XSS finding methods at Google.
Time Duration Event Speaker Affiliation Topic
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
8:30 AM 0:45:00 Registration / Breakfast      
9:15 AM 0:15:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Tony Voellm Google  
9:30 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 1 (Opening Keynote) Ari Shamash Google Evolution from Quality Assurance to Test Engineering
10:15 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 2 James Waldrop Twitter Testing Systems at Scale @Twitter
11:00 AM 0:30:00 Break      
11:30 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 3 David Burns and Malini Das Mozilla How Do You Test a Mobile OS?
12:15 PM 1:00:00 Lunch      
1:15 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 4 Igor Dorovskikh and Kaustubh Gawande Expedia Mobile Automation in Continuous Delivery Pipeline
2:00 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 1 David Röthlisberger YouView Automated Set-Top Box Testing with GStreamer and OpenCV
2:15 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 2 Ken Kania Google Webdriver for Chrome
2:30 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 3 Vojta Jina Google Karma - Test Runner for JavaScript
2:45 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 4 Patrik Höglund Google Automated Video Quality Measurements
3:00 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 5 Minal Mishra Netflix When Bad Things Happen to Good Applications...
3:15 PM 0:30:00 Break      
3:45 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 5 Tao Xie North Carolina State University Testing for Educational Gaming and Educational Gaming for Testing
4:30 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 6 (Closing Keynote) Simon Stewart Facebook How Facebook Tests Facebook on Android
5:15 PM 0:15:00 Closing Remarks      
5:30 PM   Dinner      
Time Duration Event Speaker Affiliation Topic
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
8:30 AM 0:45:00 Breakfast      
9:15 AM 0:15:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks      
9:30 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 1 (Opening Keynote) Mark Trostler Google Testable JavaScript - Architecting Your Application for Testability
10:15 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 2 Thomas Knych, Stefan Ramsauer, Valera Zakharov Google Breaking the Matrix - Android Testing at Scale
11:00 AM 0:30:00 Break      
11:30 AM 0:45:00 Presentation 3 Guang Zhu (朱光) and Adam Momtaz Google Android UI Automation
12:15 PM 1:00:00 Lunch      
1:15 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 4 Jonathan Lipps Sauce Labs Appium: Automation for Mobile Apps
2:00 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 1 Eduardo Bravo Google Building Scalable Mobile Test Infrastructure for Google+ Mobile
2:15 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 2 Valera Zakharov Google Espresso: Fresh Start to Android UI Testing
2:30 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 3 Michael Klepikov Google Web Performance Testing with WebDriver
2:45 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 4 Yvette Nameth, Brendan Dhein Google Continuous Maps Data Testing
3:00 PM 0:15:00 Lightning Talk 5 Celal Ziftci, Vivek Ramavajjala University of California, San Diego Finding Culprits Automatically in Failing Builds - i.e. Who Broke the Build?
3:15 PM 0:30:00 Break      
3:45 PM 0:45:00 Presentation 5 Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova West Virginia University Empirical Investigation of Software Product Line Quality
4:30 PM 0:30:00 Presentation 6 Kostya Serebryany Google AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer -- Dynamic Testing Tools for C++.
5:00 PM 0:30:00 Presentation 7 (Closing Keynote) Claudio Criscione Google Drinking the Ocean - Finding XSS at Google Scale
5:30 PM 0:05:00 Closing Remarks      
5:35 PM   Drinks