GTAC: Call for Proposals
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Lydia Ash - GTAC Conference Chair
Overview
The Test Automation Conference has been hosted by Google over the past several years bringing together a select set of industry practitioners as speakers and participants around the topic of software testing and automation. The annual conference provides a forum for presentations on important topics in our field connecting professions with others in their field through collaboration and targeted breakout sessions, but also has served the testing community by bringing the presentations public allowing anyone access to the information.
GTAC conference participants are typically software engineers who are actively working on problems of software quality, automated testing, and testing techniques. GTAC conferences cover a number of areas, but many presentations focus on themes such as advanced techniques in quality evaluation, advanced approaches to automating software testing, and experiences and findings from quality efforts on software projects.
The Conference
The conference is a two day event comprised of a single track of presentations. The philosophy is to engage a small set of active participants who all experience the same topics carrying the discussions into lightning talks, speaker Q&A, and topical discussion groups. The emphasis for the 2008 GTAC conference is solving the hard engineering problems in the quality of our software. Each year we have worked to identify a location that has a unique profile of technology professionals. This year the conference will be held in Seattle, WA, USA on October 23 and 24.
Presentations are targeted at experienced engineers actively working on software quality. We encourage innovative ideas, controversial experiences, problems, and solutions that further the discussion of engineering and software quality. Presentations are generally 45 min in length and speakers should be prepared for an active question and answer session following their presentation.
Process of Selection
All presentation submissions will be handled electronically. Presentation proposals should be a relatively detailed extended abstract including the topic, outline, and details of what will be presented. Presentation proposals should be emailed to gtac@google.com
All presentation proposals must be received by June 6, 2008. Where employer or disclosure authorization is needed, the author(s) will need to obtain this prior to submitting their proposal.
The program committee will evaluate proposals based on the quality and relevance. All submissions will be held confidentially prior to contacting the selected presenters and the publication in the proceedings.
Notification
Accepted proposal authors will be contacted on or before July 10 to confirm their availability and travel needs. Authors of proposals not selected will be notified on or before July 10. Accepted proposals will be presented at the conference and made available to the public on YouTube.
Copyright
TAC requires presenters to present at the conference and permit their presentation to be made available on YouTube.
Important Dates for Presentations
June 6 - Final deadline for proposal submissions for presentations
July 10 - Deadline for selected presenters to be contacted by the selection committee and notified of their acceptance
October 23 and 24 - GTAC conference in Seattle
Attendees
TAC conference has worked to invite a select audience, each member applies to the conference for committee selection. This is to ensure active participation from each attendee and provide a variety of technical perspectives to interact, discuss, and network.
Important Dates for Attendees
July 7 - Call for attendee profile submissions
July 25 - Deadline for attendee profiles
August 11 - Selected attendees to be notified by the conference committee, registration opens
August 29 - Registration deadline, wait-list opens
September 19 - Wait list notifications and attendee closure
October 23 and 24 - GTAC conference in Seattle
Questions
If you have questions about the submission process or potential topics please send a mail to us at: gtac@google.com
Please see the Google Testing blog for more information: http://googletesting.blogspot.com/search/label/GTAC
Overview
The Test Automation Conference has been hosted by Google over the past several years bringing together a select set of industry practitioners as speakers and participants around the topic of software testing and automation. The annual conference provides a forum for presentations on important topics in our field connecting professions with others in their field through collaboration and targeted breakout sessions, but also has served the testing community by bringing the presentations public allowing anyone access to the information.
GTAC conference participants are typically software engineers who are actively working on problems of software quality, automated testing, and testing techniques. GTAC conferences cover a number of areas, but many presentations focus on themes such as advanced techniques in quality evaluation, advanced approaches to automating software testing, and experiences and findings from quality efforts on software projects.
The Conference
The conference is a two day event comprised of a single track of presentations. The philosophy is to engage a small set of active participants who all experience the same topics carrying the discussions into lightning talks, speaker Q&A, and topical discussion groups. The emphasis for the 2008 GTAC conference is solving the hard engineering problems in the quality of our software. Each year we have worked to identify a location that has a unique profile of technology professionals. This year the conference will be held in Seattle, WA, USA on October 23 and 24.
Presentations are targeted at experienced engineers actively working on software quality. We encourage innovative ideas, controversial experiences, problems, and solutions that further the discussion of engineering and software quality. Presentations are generally 45 min in length and speakers should be prepared for an active question and answer session following their presentation.
Process of Selection
All presentation submissions will be handled electronically. Presentation proposals should be a relatively detailed extended abstract including the topic, outline, and details of what will be presented. Presentation proposals should be emailed to gtac@google.com
All presentation proposals must be received by June 6, 2008. Where employer or disclosure authorization is needed, the author(s) will need to obtain this prior to submitting their proposal.
The program committee will evaluate proposals based on the quality and relevance. All submissions will be held confidentially prior to contacting the selected presenters and the publication in the proceedings.
Notification
Accepted proposal authors will be contacted on or before July 10 to confirm their availability and travel needs. Authors of proposals not selected will be notified on or before July 10. Accepted proposals will be presented at the conference and made available to the public on YouTube.
Copyright
TAC requires presenters to present at the conference and permit their presentation to be made available on YouTube.
Important Dates for Presentations
June 6 - Final deadline for proposal submissions for presentations
July 10 - Deadline for selected presenters to be contacted by the selection committee and notified of their acceptance
October 23 and 24 - GTAC conference in Seattle
Attendees
TAC conference has worked to invite a select audience, each member applies to the conference for committee selection. This is to ensure active participation from each attendee and provide a variety of technical perspectives to interact, discuss, and network.
Important Dates for Attendees
July 7 - Call for attendee profile submissions
July 25 - Deadline for attendee profiles
August 11 - Selected attendees to be notified by the conference committee, registration opens
August 29 - Registration deadline, wait-list opens
September 19 - Wait list notifications and attendee closure
October 23 and 24 - GTAC conference in Seattle
Questions
If you have questions about the submission process or potential topics please send a mail to us at: gtac@google.com
Please see the Google Testing blog for more information: http://googletesting.blogspot
Hi ! Great News . Thanks. Do you have any specific format , in which we would need to submit the paper ?
ReplyDeleteBefore the actual paper is submitted , are we supposed to send an extract of the actual paper for approval . If Yes, could you kindly please let me know the format ?
- Sajeev Kesavan
When will submissions for atendees be accepted. I saw in the article that it would be the 7th, but alas the 7th came and went and no new links appeared.
ReplyDeleteEven i have the same question as Mike about when will the attendee profile submissions be accepted
ReplyDeleteHi, I really enjoyed the conference in Seattle!
ReplyDeleteWhen do you think you may post the presentation videos? Any chance that you could also make the presentation powerpoints available as well?
thanks,
bailey wier