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SUMMARY:How Google Tests Software - James Whittaker  (Google)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:The mythology around Google Test runs like a ghostly spirit th
 rough the larger software quality community. Google automates everything. 
 Google's cloud is the ultimate tester playground. Sometimes myth is larger
  than reality and sometime the reverse is true. In this talk James Whittak
 er will dispel some Google Test myths and reinforce others. There is indee
 d a secret sauce we mix into our product quality efforts and many of its f
 lavors can be sampled in this short presentation. \n\n- Test machines and 
 test labs available in any number\, on-demand\n- Developer resources and s
 kill set applied to testing\n- Internal tools that trump commercially avai
 lable ones\n- Innovation is the soup du jour of the Google tester\n\nSpeak
 er: James A. Whittaker joined Google in May 2009 as a Test Engineering Dir
 ector. Formerly an Architect with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System\
 , he directed product strategy for Microsoft’s test business and led int
 ernal teams in the application of exploratory testing. Dr. Whittaker previ
 ously served as Professor of Computer Science at Florida Tech. There\, he 
 was named a Top Scholar by The Journal of Systems and Software\, and led a
  research team that created many leading-edge testing tools and technologi
 es\, including the acclaimed runtime fault injection tool Holodeck. Whitta
 ker is author of Exploratory Software Testing: Tips\, Tricks\, Tours and T
 echniques to Guide Test Design and How to Break Software. He is coauthor (
 with Hugh Thompson) of How to Break Software Security\, co-author (with Mi
 ke Andrews) of How to Break Web Software and author of 50+ peer-reviewed p
 apers on software development and security\, and the holder of patents on 
 various inventions in security testing and defensive security techniques. 
 Dr. Whittaker has a PhD in computer science from the University of Tenness
 ee. \n
LOCATION:LT2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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