Speaker: Adam Porter

Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
.NET	.NET	.NET
Java	Java	Java
Agile Ways	Agile Ways	Agile Ways
In the Cloud	Architecture	Agile Architecture
Effective Languages	Test	Test
PM in Practice	Aspects of Leadership	Meanwhile
User Experience	Mobile 2.0	Mobile 2.0
Web Dev	Web Dev
Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks

Adam Porter is a full professor in Computer Science Dept. at the Univ. of Maryland. He currently serves as the Associate Director of the UM Inst. for Advanced Computer Studies. He has won the prestigious US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award and serves or has served on the editorials board of the ACM Transactions on Software Eng. and IEEE Transactions on Software Eng. Porter's research is in use at may large IT companies and open source projects.

Website

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~aporter

Combinatorial Interaction Testing: Do We Really Need to Test ALL the Combinationwednesday 15:35 - 16:25

We present some initial work using symbolic evaluation to map out the interaction patterns
among configuration options in a configurable system. We compare our findings to the use of combinatorial testing
approaches, such as covering arrays. We find that for a small set of subject programs, only a very small set of configuration
options really interact.
Experiences Creating and Running a Test Farm for MySQLwednesday 13:10 - 14:00

We have a system and infrastructure for creating and executing large-scale
test processes for configurable systems. Our project is called Skoll. This talk will look at one practical application
of Skoll,  continuous testing of the MySqL server.

Large-Scale Testing of Highly Configurable Systemsthursday 14:15 - 15:05

Software engineers increasingly emphasize agility and flexibility in their designs and development approaches. They increasingly use distributed development teams, rely on component assembly and deployment rather than green field code writing, rapidly evolve the system through incremental development and frequent updating, and use flexible product designs supporting extensive end-user customization.