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The First Annual Testing on the Toilet Awards
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
By Andrew Trenk
The Testing on the Toilet (TotT) series was
created
in 2006 as a way to spread unit-testing knowledge across Google by posting flyers in bathroom stalls. It quickly became a part of Google culture and is still going strong today, with new episodes published every week and read in hundreds of bathrooms by thousands of engineers in Google offices across the world. Initially focused on content related to testing, TotT now covers a variety of technical topics, such as tips on writing cleaner code and ways to prevent security bugs.
While TotT episodes often have a big impact on many engineers across Google, until now we never did anything to formally thank authors for their contributions. To fix that, we decided to honor the most popular TotT episodes of 2014 by establishing the Testing on the Toilet Awards. The winners were chosen through a vote that was open to all Google engineers. The Google Testing Blog is proud to present the winners that were posted on this blog (there were two additional winners that weren’t posted on this blog since we only post testing-related TotT episodes).
And the winners are ...
Erik Kuefler:
Test Behaviors, Not Methods
and
Don't Put Logic in Tests
Alex Eagle:
Change-Detector Tests Considered Harmful
The authors of these episodes received their very own Flushy trophy, which they can proudly display on their desks.
(The logo on the trophy is the same one we put on the printed version of each TotT episode, which you can see by looking for the “printer-friendly version” link in the
TotT blog posts
).
Congratulations to the winners!
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Aaron Jacobs
1
Adam Porter
1
Alan Faulkner
1
Alan Myrvold
1
Alberto Savoia
4
Alek Icev
2
Alex Eagle
1
Allen Hutchison
6
Andrew Trenk
8
Android
1
Anthony Vallone
25
Antoine Picard
1
APIs
2
App Engine
1
April Fools
2
Arif Sukoco
1
Bruce Leban
1
C++
11
Chaitali Narla
2
Christopher Semturs
1
Chrome
3
Chrome OS
2
Dave Chen
1
Diego Salas
2
Dmitry Vyukov
1
Dori Reuveni
1
Eduardo Bravo Ortiz
1
Ekaterina Kamenskaya
1
Erik Kuefler
3
Espresso
1
George Pirocanac
2
Google+
1
Goranka Bjedov
1
GTAC
54
Hank Duan
1
Harry Robinson
5
Havard Rast Blok
1
Hongfei Ding
1
James Whittaker
42
Jason Arbon
2
Jason Elbaum
1
Jason Huggins
1
Java
5
JavaScript
7
Jay Han
1
Jessica Tomechak
1
Jim Reardon
1
Jobs
14
Joe Allan Muharsky
1
Joel Hynoski
1
John Penix
1
John Thomas
3
Jonathan Rockway
1
Jonathan Velasquez
1
Julian Harty
5
Julie Ralph
1
Karin Lundberg
1
Kaue Silveira
1
Kevin Graney
1
Kirkland
1
Kurt Alfred Kluever
1
Lesley Katzen
1
Marc Kaplan
3
Mark Ivey
1
Mark Striebeck
1
Marko Ivanković
1
Markus Clermont
3
Michael Bachman
1
Michael Klepikov
1
Mike Wacker
1
Misko Hevery
32
Mobile
2
Mona El Mahdy
1
Noel Yap
1
Patricia Legaspi
1
Patrick Copeland
23
Patrik Höglund
5
Peter Arrenbrecht
1
Phil Rollet
1
Philip Zembrod
4
Pooja Gupta
1
Radoslav Vasilev
1
Rajat Dewan
1
Rajat Jain
1
Rich Martin
1
Richard Bustamante
1
Roshan Sembacuttiaratchy
1
Ruslan Khamitov
1
Sean Jordan
1
Sharon Zhou
1
Shyam Seshadri
4
Simon Stewart
2
Stephen Ng
1
Tejas Shah
1
Test Analytics
1
Tony Voellm
2
TotT
54
Vojta Jína
1
WebRTC
2
Yvette Nameth
2
Zhanyong Wan
6
Zuri Kemp
2
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