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.