3rd Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC)

Google sponsored the first GTAC in New York last August, and now they have organized a second rendition. The official Call For Attendance: GTAC 2008 gives details about how to apply for a spot to attend. Google is very generous: it pays for the conference in its entirety.

Here's the list of scheduled presentations (in alphabetic order by paper title):

• Advances in Automated Software Testing Technologies, by Elfriede Dustin
• Atom Publishing Protocol, Testing a Server Implementation, by David Calavera
• Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications, by Oluwaseun Akinmade and Prof. Atif M Memon
• Boosting Your Testing Productivity with Groovy, by Andres Almiray
• Deployment and Test Automation: Extending the Notion of 'Done' to 'System Tested on a Production Deployment', by Marc-Elian Begin
• JInjector: a Coverage and End-To-End Testing Framework for J2ME and RIM, by Julian Harty, Olivier Gaillard, and Michael Sama
• Practicing Testability in the Real World, by Vishal Chowdhary
• Taming the Beast: How to test an AJAX Application, by Markus Clermont and John Thomas
• The New Genomics: Software Development at Petabyte Scale, by Matt Wood
• The Value of Small Tests, by Christopher Semturs