Live Webinar August 4th, 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Now that every company is an ecommerce company, there is a race to achieve digital transformation and deliver quality software faster than ever.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is certainly one cutting-edge way for organizations to accelerate software development and delivery. But many still wrestle with the looming fear that AI might take over their job.

Analysts predict that adoption of AI and ML is one of the largest growth areas in the test automation market. But what is AI really? How can it help accelerate software development lifecycles, specifically with UI functional testing?

And lastly, how can it help extend the skill set of manual testers or beginning automators, rather than replace them?

In this webinar, Jenny Lowenthal (LinkedIn profile) Associate Director of Product Marketing SmartBear; will discuss trends in AI, how it can help accelerate your testing initiatives, and enhance your skills as a tester.

In this interactive webinar you will:

1. AI in today’s world of digital transformation
2. How AI can help you evolve into an agile tester
3. How TestComplete from SmartBear uses AI and ML to identify dynamic and complex objects

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Leverage AI To Future-Proof Your Testing

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Live Webinar July 22nd, 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Manual testing has long been the cornerstone of software quality, relying on the expertise of software testers to ensure an excellent user experience. However, manual testing alone is no longer a viable testing strategy. High-velocity teams often struggle to keep up with frequent releases, demanding a hybrid or even fully automated approach.

To manage, quality teams are turning to low-code test automation solutions. But, the line between what to automate and what to test manually is blurred. Understanding the role of each—and their impact on UX—is critical to building an effective quality strategy.

Join Damon Paul, (LinkedIn profile) Testing Expert and Technical Solutions Engineer at mabl, to explore ways to combine manual and automated functional testing to create a high-impact quality engineering strategy.

Attendees will hear about how to:

• Connect your strategy back to the user experience
• Balance the roles of automated and manual tests
• Leverage low-code test automation in your quality strategy

Presenter:  Damon Paul Testing Expert and Technical Solutions Engineer is a Testing Expert and Technical Solutions Engineer at mabl who loves nothing more than to empower humans with technology and knowledge. With experience as both a Manual QA Specialist and QA Automation Engineer, Damon has experience quickly understanding a team’s quality and testing goals and guiding them to solutions and testing practices that work best for them.

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Balancing Manual & Automated Tests: Find The Right Mix

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Live Webinar July 14th, 2020 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0.5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

We are inundated by scads of mixed messages about software development, testing, quality, and delivery today.

There are the Agile Manifesto and principles, SCRUM, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework, the book – How Google Tests Software, the tech talk – Test is Dead, murmurs about achieving 100% automation, goals of delivering faster and more frequently to customers, the idea that we can solve every problem with DevOps, and so on.

Some of these messages leave organizations confused about the value of testing, and testers wondering if they have a career path at all.

We indeed are at a critical juncture in the quality and testing space, and if we aren’t careful, we could be joining the dodo and the dinosaurs.

How will we survive all this?

Dawn Haynes, (LinkedIn profile) believes the heart of the issue is in becoming truly agile in our beliefs, approaches, and attitudes about testing. Without the flexibility to serve the needs of our teams and organizations TODAY (and tomorrow!), we should be concerned.

So, what is the true meaning of agility for testers? Does it mean doing “Agile” things? Following SCRUM? Doing DevOps? Etc.?

Dawn doesn’t think so. Please join Dawn to take a deep dive into what true agility could look like for testers and teams moving forward!

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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The True Meaning of Agility With Dawn Haynes

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Live Webinar June 29th, 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

1. Do you find it confusing when your Selenium test sometimes waits for a page to load and sometimes it doesn’t?
2. Do you get frustrated that you can’t check to see if an alert is present on the page without canceling it?
3. Are you constantly sending timeout commands during your tests?

There are several ways you can customize the behavior of the browser you are using to test when you start a session.

You can leverage these settings to ensure consistent and reliable behavior across different parts of your tests to minimize time spent investigating failures.

The W3C specification for WebDriver has also added several helpful options that are still underused. Additionally, each browser vendor offers custom ways for working with their browser.

In this webinar, Titus Fortner, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Sauce Labs, will walk through how WebDriver capabilities work.

Understand how to set and work with:

• Timeout values
• Page loading strategy
• JavaScript alerts
• Insecure Certificates
• File Interactability
• Plus various vendor-specific preferences and extensions

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Top Tips For Managing Browser Behavior In Your Selenium Tests

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Live Webinar June 1st, 2021 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar you will learn how to create true UATs that catch and prevent Agile’s well-known difficulties integrating multiple pieces of working code.

Presenter: Robin Goldsmith (LinkedIn profile) author of Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success,  advises & trains business and systems professional on risk-based Proactive Software Quality Assurance and Testing™, requirements, REAL ROI™, metrics, outsourcing, project and process management.Robin is a subject expert for TechTarget’s SearchSoftwareQuality.com and a subject expert/reviewer for the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK v2).  Robin  writes the Unconventional Wisdom blog on TestHuddle.com and is publishing his next book shortly – Cut Creep—Put Business Back in Business Analysis to Discover REAL Business Requirements for Agile, ATDD, and Other Project Success. Make sure to check out GoProManagement.com Robin’s site!

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You Need User Acceptance Tests (UATs)
As Well As User Story Acceptance Tests

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Live Webinar June 1st 2020 – 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Test – Driven Development (TDD), is a software development technique that flips the testing process on its head: rather than testing after the product is done, developers build tests first and use the failure as a guide to write the necessary code.

TDD’s immediate benefit is that it gives better test coverage, but there are more beneficial second order effects that come when applying it consistently.

Moving in this step by step, feedback driven process improves the team productivity and results in a malleable software design.

In this presentation, Rex & Gio look at how to bring this mindset that focuses on iteration and feedback in all the areas of software and product development.

Presenter:

Gio Lodi (LinkedIn profile) is the author of Test – Driven Development in Swift. He’s been exploring testing and automation since 2011, when he encountered TDD while working on a startup with his University housemates. Gio publishes his findings in his blog and with presentations such as this one. He lives in an Australian beach town with his wife and two little children, and works remotely as mobile infrastructure engineer at Automattic, where he helps teams working on apps such as WordPress ship quality code on a
schedule.

Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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Two Points Of View At Two:
How To Adopt A Test-Driven Development Mindset With Gio Lodi

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