Posted by Lydia Ash, Test Engineering Manager

Call for Attendance
Google Test Automation Conference 2008
Seattle, WA
October 23 - 24

Google's Test Automation Conference is built on our participants each bringing their experience, ideas, and insight to the discussions we host. Our participants are all experienced industry professionals working as software development engineers or software testing engineers. For the limited number of spaces available in each year's conference, we ask each applicant to share what they would bring to the discussions as an active participant in the conference.

To apply for a participant space at the GTAC 2008 conference, you can apply:
Timeline
  • Deadline for applying as a participant: August 15
  • Notification of acceptance: August 29
  • Wait list callbacks: October 3
  • GTAC 2008 Conference: October 23 and 24

Scheduled Presentations
  • Atom Publishing Protocol, Testing a Server Implementation by David Calavera
  • JInjector: a Coverage and End-To-End Testing Framework for J2ME and RIM by Julian Harty, Olivier Gaillard, and Michael Sama
  • Advances in Automated Software Testing Technologies by Elfriede Dustin
  • Taming the Beast: How to test an AJAX Application by Markus Clermont and John Thomas
  • Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications by Oluwaseun Akinmade and Prof. Atif M Memon
  • Boosting Your Testing Productivity with Groovy by Andres Almiray
  • Practicing Testability in the Real World by Vishal Chowdhary
  • The New Genomics: Software Development at Petabyte Scale by Matt Wood
  • The Value of Small Tests by Christopher Semturs
  • Deployment and Test Automation: Extending the Notion of 'Done' to 'System Tested on a Production Deployment' by Marc-Elian Begin
No Registration Fees
The GTAC conference has no registration fees. Once invitations have been sent to participate, full registration instructions will be sent to each invitee. Breakfast and lunch will be provided each day of the conference, as well as a reception the evening of October 23.

Cancellation
If you register as a participant and will not be able to attend, please send email immediately to gtac@google.com to allow a wait list person the opportunity to participate in that slot.

Hotel Accommodations
W Seattle (Conference Venue)
1112 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 264-6000

Other Hotels in the Area
Hotel Vintage Park
1100 5th Ave
Seattle, WA
(206) 624-8000

Madison Renaissance Hotel
515 Madison St
Seattle, WA
(206) 583-0300

Hotel Monaco
1101 4th Avenue
Seattle, WA
(206) 621-1770