Google's Innovation Factory: Testing, Culture, and Infrastructure

Abstract

Google’s external mythology has been one of a brilliant and chaotic innovation machine that produces new products and features at an amazing rate. Behind the curtain of public perception is a company that takes quality seriously and is reinventing how software is created, tested, released, and maintained; a reality that’s even more interesting than the myth. At Google we’ve learned a lot in the last few years about accelerating very large scale software development; in this paper we'll share what has worked and what hasn't worked for us.