Monday December 1 4:00 - 4:50 PM Kelley 1001
Willem Visser Senior Software Engineer SEVEN Networks Redwood City, CA Testing Theory meets the Real World I have now been with SEVEN Networks almost two years and the hard reality is that I have not been able to apply more than a handful of things from 10 years of research in software testing. In this talk I will try to describe why this is and what makes testing in a fast paced internet-style startup so challenging. When SQL and EXCEL pivot tables are debugging aids and GREP, AWK, RRD and ORCA are your best friends in finding issues, you know you will not be publishing in any theoretical journals, but that is the reality of testing software in the internet age. In addition to exploring some of the more interesting errors we encountered I will discuss why load testing is essentially now the only form of automated testing we are engaging in. Biography: Willem Visser obtained an M.Sc. from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa (1993) and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in the UK (1998). He spent 8 years at NASA Ames Research Center working mostly on testing Java software, and in particular, was one of the main developers of the Java PathFinder (JPF) model checker. In early 2007 he moved to SEVEN Networks, a small startup that provides mobile email solutions and counts SPRINT and ATT as two of their biggest customers. At SEVEN he is in charge of load testing, system monitoring and (increasingly) data mining.
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