The April 2011 issue of Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society, features a cover article written by Alberto Savoia and Patrick Copeland (@copelandpatrick). The article, Entrepreneurial Innovation at Goo…
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by Patrick CopelandGoogle Innovation and the Pretotyping Manifesto*: I had the pleasure of keynoting at the sold out San Francisco and London QCon conferences. Combined about 1300 people attended. They recently published the video and I’m including it …
I’ll be speaking very soon about innovation and The Pretotyping Manifesto (note: not prototyping). It’s a concept that works well for any type of engineering, testing, or idea. Here’s a brief preview…The talk starts off by discussing the odds against…
The published content for this year’s GTAC is finally available. You can find the links to all the material below and also at the GTAC site. Other interesting artifacts can be found via Google Search or Twitter or Facebook.. On behalf of the Committee …
by Simon StewartWhat do you call a test that tests your application through its UI? An end-to-end test? A functional test? A system test? A selenium test? I’ve heard all them, and more. I reckon you have too. Tests running against less of the stack? …
by Patrick CopelandFYI…I’ll be giving a keynote at QCon in SFO next week. Fortunately, or unfortunately as the case my be, the conference is sold out. But they will post a video of the talk following the conference. If you are interested here’s the a…
We are thrilled to announce that GTAC 2010 keynotes are finalized. We are very fortunate to have three world-renowned software testing icons: Robert Binder, Dr. Jeff Offutt and Dr. James Whittaker. Robert, Jeff and James bring to GTAC a powerful combi…
Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) 2010Call for Attendance & ProposalsWe are happy to announce that the application process is now open for Attendance and Proposals for the Fifth Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), to be held in Hyderab…
Thanks for all the enquiries about this year’s GTAC event. We have been busy planning and are now ready to share the details. GTAC 2010 will be hosted by Google office in Hyderabad, India on October 28th & 29th, 2010.As in previous years, the focus…
Now that ICST 2010 has concluded, I’m going ahead and posting the keynote paper and the slides. Enjoy! Patrick CopelandLet me know if you have comments or questions.Here’s a link to the paper. They are semi-complementary.
Drop me a resume and a brief note if you’re interested in joining Google as an SET. email: [email protected]. Thanks — Patrick CopelandWhen we hire people we look for folks with a “testing DNA.” These are people who are great computer scientis…