The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007. Ryan Gerard and Ramya Venkataramu - Automated Test Hygiene via Community Reputation System or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0 Talk Summary: Typically in environments with large projects, one will find poorly written test cases and defects that have a questionable usefulness due to their poor quality. This results in reduced quality throughout the system due to missing information or poorly executed tests. The concept of having a public reputation is a powerful one that is well utilized by popular ecommerce sites, and we'd like to introduce the idea of adding one to the test environment. A reputation system that is somewhat dependent upon Web 2.0-esque community participation makes for a powerful test environment that promotes automated "test hygiene". By test hygiene, we mean better-written tests and defects that are readable, useful, and have all the information you require to run the test. Ryan Gerard Ryan Gerard is currently a Sr. QA Engineer at Symantec. He has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA, and is currently pursuing his MS in Information Security. Ryan's particular specialties are in web technologies and security testing, although his interests span kernel-level technologies to process improvements to data analysis. Ramya Venkataramu is an SQA Engineer at Symantec. She has completed her MS in Computer Science at San Jose ...
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