Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997. In 1991, Reed founded Pure Software, which made tools for software developers. After a 1995 IPO, and several acquisitions, Pure was acquired by Rational Software in 1997. Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004.
Atif M. Memon is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Memon has published more than 145 peer-reviewed articles on software testing and software engineering. He is the General Chair of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing. In 2007, Memon was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a visiting researcher at Tata Research Development and Design Centre. In 2016, he was a visiting scientist at Google in Mountain View. He is the recipient of the Fraunhofer-Bessel award, given by the Alexander-von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, for his achievements in the field of applied software testing.
Alexander Wolfe is a Senior Software Engineer on the TV UI Operations Engineering team. He helped lead the initial effort to revamp the tooling TV UI had to enable developers the ability to adopt a TDD based approach for feature development. Alex has a diverse background split between Systems Administration and Backend/Frontend Development. His passion lies in the crossover between the two and enjoys working on projects that leverage both areas of knowledge.
With Sudhakar, Alex will discuss how they tackled test stability issues as their development team scaled up in a large project and how they kept automated testing a first-class part of the development workflow.
Sudhakar Aramalla is a Senior Software Engineer in Netflix's TV UI Operations team. He has been a core contributor to the automation framework while also creating tools to allow developers and testers to test the Netflix UI on gaming consoles and Smart TVs.
Although Sudhakar started his career as an Enterprise Application Developer, he has found his passion has been working on automation frameworks and tools. He has been living in bay area since 2010 with his wife and 2 kids (5 years old and 1 year old).
In Sudhakar's talk, he will discuss how they solved for problems around flaky tests which affected developer productivity and accuracy of automated test results.
Fazal Allanabanda and Vilas Veeraraghavan
will showcase how Scriptflask achieves an elegant solution to test flakiness by abstracting away the complexities of retries and service availability in a region and provides a best effort response to make tests more robust. Read more about the team and their efforts here.