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Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google Tech Talks September 8th, 2006 Presenter: Jason Huggins
Wikipedia and MediaWiki
Google TechTalks April 28, 2006 Brion Vibber Brion Vibber has worked on MediaWiki and Wikipedia's servers for four years, watching over its frightening growth from thousands to millions of pages, from dozens to thousands of hits per second. ABSTRACT Over four years, MediaWiki has evolved from a quick hack to run a little-known encyclopedia web site to the monster engine behind a heavily-used pu...
High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA
Google TechTalks January 25, 2006 Dr. Rupak Biswas and Dr. Chris Henze Dr. Rupak Biswas is currently the Acting Chief of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Biswas received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991 and has been at NASA ever since. Chris Henze is the lead of the Visualization Group in the NASA Advanc...
Ken Schwaber: Scrum et al.
Google Tech Talks September 5, 2006 Ken Schwaber co-developed the Agile process, Scrum. He is a founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, and signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Ken has been a software developer for over thirty years. He is an active advocate and evangelist for Agile processes. ABSTRACT Scrum is an amazingly simple process that causes many, many changes when it is impleme...
Using Test Oracles in Automation
Google TechTalks April 25, 2006 Douglas Hoffman is an independent consultant with Software Quality Methods, LLC. He has been in the software engineering and quality assurance fields for over 30 years and now consults in it. ABSTRACT Software test automation is often a difficult and complex process. The most familiar aspects of test automation are organizing and running of test cases and capturi...
Proving Our Worth: Quantifying the Value of Testing
Google TechTalks August 10, 2006 Lee Copeland has over thirty years experience as an information systems professional. He has held a number of technical and managerial positions with commercial and non-profit organizations in the areas of applications development, software testing, and software development process improvement. Now, as a consultant with Software Quality Engineering, Lee has deve...
Andy Hertzfeld at Google New York
Google New York's Technical Speaker Series. Andy Hertzfeld, one of the main designers of the original Apple Macintosh computer and now a Google software engineer, addresses over 200 people at Google's New York office on March 15th The video is 1:15 hrs in length
SAXually Explicit Images: Data Mining Large Shape Databases
Google TechTalks May 12, 2006 Eamonn Keogh ABSTRACT The problem of indexing large collections of time series and images has received much attention in the last decade, however we argue that there is potentially great untapped utility in data mining such collections. Consider the following two concrete examples of problems in data mining. Motif Discovery (duplication detection): Given a large re...
Elkhound, Elsa and Cqual++: Open-Source Static Analysis for C++
Google TechTalks April 11, 2006 Scott McPeak ABSTRACT This talk will cover three pieces of infrastructure for writing static analyses for C++. All are available as open source. Elkhound is a Generalized LR (GLR) parser generator. Its input is a grammar augmented with reduction actions written in C++. The GLR algorithm works with any context-free grammar, even ambiguous grammars. The user provid...
Exploratory Testing
Exploratory testing is an approach in software testing that is concisely described as simultaneous learning, test design and test execution. Cem Kaner, who coined the term in 1983, now defines exploratory testing as "a style of software testing that emphasizes the personal freedom and responsibility of the individual tester to continually optimize the quality of his/her work by treating te...