Rather than continue my review/rant about GTAC2008, I think I’ll let you just decide for yourself since the videos are now available.
Many of them are less-than-interesting, but the following are probably worth a look.

Boosting Your Testing Productivity with Groovy – Andres AlmirayI’ve been doing a lot of this stuff with Groovy lately, more detail to [...]

Advances in Automated Software Technologies, Elfriede Dustin and Marcus Borch
This started with focus on applying hardware testing techniques to software testing. Namely with regards to reusable components (citing koders.com and krugle.com). The components in question seemed to largely be toolkits that they use in testing including

STAX/STAF
Fire eye – for test data generation
VNC Robot – for [...]

I traveled to Seattle last week for this year’s Google Testing and Automation Conference. I tried to take some notes for the benefit of my own memory and others, so I’ll be posting notes and reactions to my blog over the next few days starting with this post.
As for a quick overview of this [...]