Title	: Big Data, Small Testing?

Speaker	: Jayant Haritsa

Date and Time	: Friday, May 23, 2014, 4:00 PM

Venue	: Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science

Abstract

Big Data has become the buzzword of choice in recent times, especially in
the software industry. The accompanying hoopla has spawned frenetic claims
foretelling the development of great and wondrous solutions to Big Data
challenges. However, there is very little said about the testing of such
systems, an essential pre-requisite for deployment. In this talk, we will
discuss the research challenges involved in the testing process,
especially from the database perspective. We will also present CODD, a
graphical tool that takes a first step towards the effective testing of
Big Data deployments through a new metaphor of "data-less databases". CODD
is currently in use at industrial and academic institutions worldwide.

Speaker Bio
 
Jayant Haritsa is on the faculty of the Supercomputer Education & Research
Centre and the Department of Computer Science & Automation at the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, since 1992. He received a BTech degree
from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), and a PhD degree from
the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His research interests are in
database system design, analysis and testing.