Call for Attendance

[Lydia Ash]

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 here: http://services.google.com/events/gtac2008

Deadline for applying as a participant is August 15

Timeline for Participation
Deadline for applying: August 15
Notification of acceptance: August 29
Waitlist 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

Conference Venue
The conference will be held at the W Hotel in Seattle.
1112 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 264-6000
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1154

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 gt...@google.com to allow a wait list
person the opportunity to participate in that slot.

Hotel Accommodations
W Seattle
1112 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 264-6000
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1154

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