Aftermath of the Google NY event
Friday, September 17, 2010
By James Whittaker
First and foremost, apologies to all of those trying to get to our NY event who weren't able to do so. It was an absolutely packed house, frankly the popularity of it overwhelmed us! Clearly the mixture of a Google tour, Google goodies, food, drink and testing is an intoxicating cocktail.
The event was not taped but GTAC will be and I'll likely not have been part of a two hour party before that talk! Some things, I think, are better off unrecorded and off the record...
We will be having more of these events in the future. We'll learn from this and make sure you have plenty of warning.
Thanks for understanding and if any rumors emerge from this event about things I may have said on stage...you can't prove anything!
First and foremost, apologies to all of those trying to get to our NY event who weren't able to do so. It was an absolutely packed house, frankly the popularity of it overwhelmed us! Clearly the mixture of a Google tour, Google goodies, food, drink and testing is an intoxicating cocktail.
The event was not taped but GTAC will be and I'll likely not have been part of a two hour party before that talk! Some things, I think, are better off unrecorded and off the record...
We will be having more of these events in the future. We'll learn from this and make sure you have plenty of warning.
Thanks for understanding and if any rumors emerge from this event about things I may have said on stage...you can't prove anything!
Can you post the slide deck? I'd love to pass a link around to co-workers.
ReplyDeleteThank you, James! It is really eye opening on Google test stuff. Look forward to the Web Testing Framework coming out!
ReplyDeleteProfessor,
ReplyDeleteI went to the Google Test Engineering Open House on September 15 on NYC. I asked about a feature request and you told me to send you an email, and here is!
I'm a fan of Gtest and the only problem that I have encounter with the framework is that it failed on Unix (but not Win32, it works just fine!) at run-time when I'm are trying to catch an assertion from a particular thread.
The only thing that I saw in the documentation was the following:
http://code.google.com/p/googletest/wiki/V1_5_0_AdvancedGuide#Death_Tests_And_Threads
Note: Google Test is designed with threads in mind. Once the synchronization primitives in have been implemented, Google Test will become thread-safe, meaning that you can then use assertions in multiple threads concurrently.
Personally, I think Gtest is the best framework out there, and I would like to keep using it, so when are we getting the multi-hreaded assertion support on Unix?
Thanks,
Armando Fonseca.
Look forward to more of these events in the future!
ReplyDeleteHopefully, I can make it next time.
Xing Fu
Thanks for the talk, very insightful! (even for a developer :D )
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this. I am looking forward for next events.
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