Live Webinar July 22nd, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

DevOps processes have become critical for organizations to release software as quickly as necessary in today’s fast-paced economy. The very name of “DevOps” calls out developers and operations.

But where does QA fit into that mix?

The answer is that QA plays an equal role in DevOps, and a shift to DevOps actually presents an opportunity for QA teams to play a more strategic role than previously alongside development and operations.

Join this web seminar to gain strategies for how to involve QA in your DevOps methodology and make them a strategic partner.

You will learn how to:

• Help define quality in DevOps
• Get proactive with design
• Strategize with test automation

Presenters:

Dave Denver (LinkedIn profile) Applause,  has 15+ years of experience in software engineering, consulting and DevOps implementations. He spent years in the financial sector building high performing DevOps and Agile teams, with a focus on quality. Dave made the jump to Solutions Consulting when he joined Perfecto in 2017 prior to coming to Applause.

Chris Doucet (LinkedIn profile) Applause, has over a decade of experience in software engineering. Chris was previously a solutions engineer at Electric Cloud, where he promoted DevOps best practices and techniques around release orchestration and deployment automation.

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QA’s Strategic Role In DevOps

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Live Webinar July 14th, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Executing automated tests in a continuous integration environment has become the cornerstone for any DevOps story. In order to move toward faster, more cost-effective, and higher-quality software delivery, testing must be in lockstep with development.

This web seminar will focus on getting the most out of your UI test automation by leveraging continuous integration to save time and costs throughout the software development lifecycle.

You will learn:

• Why you should automate UI tests
• How to write robust UI tests
• How UI tests fit into CI/CD pipelines
• How to generate helpful bug reports
• Cross-platform testing strategies

Presenter: Lorna Smyth (LinkedIn profile) is from Galway on the West Coast of Ireland. She is currently a Technical Solutions Engineer for SmartBear’s Test Automation tools, she delivers webinars, technical demonstrations and deep  troubleshooting Dives for SmartBear’s customers. Lorna is an advocate for Women in IT and is heavily involved in hosting local networking events. She also participates in community outreach to drive awareness of IT roles in the West of Ireland.

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Maximize The ROI Of UI Test Automation
Through Continuous Testing

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Live Webinar June 30th, 2020 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514)

Testing too often gets no respect—too little time, too few resources, and increasingly omission from projects.

It may be hard to admit, but these all signal your testing process is perceived as failing to deliver needed value.

The key to gaining the respect you crave is to manage your testing process proactively so it cost-effectively produces results that everyone recognizes as valuable.

• Identifying your REAL testing process and why managing it matters
• Keys to improving the value your testing produces
• Making it work in Agile projects, even ones without “testers”

Learn how in this interactive webinar.

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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Increase The Value Your Test Process Delivers

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Live Webinar June 30th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Robot Framework is a generic open source automation framework for acceptance testing, acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), and robotic process automation (RPA).

It lets testers easily write automated test scripts using a keyword-driven testing approach.

Pekka Klärck, the creator of Robot Framework, will go over the main concepts and benefits of Robot and show how you can use it to scale your test automation by reusing and extending existing keywords.

Pekka will also talk about the vibrant Robot community that works actively in making free libraries for automating all sorts of systems so that you can easily write automated test cases, even without deep programming knowledge.

Sérgio Freire, from Xray, will also show how Jira teams can be more effective by easily integrating testing results coming from the CI/CD pipeline. By using Jira as the central and single source for all testing efforts (manual test cases, exploratory testing, automated scripts), teams can assess the actual readiness of features before deploying them.

Test automation may seem hard, but it’s not rocket science. It gets easier with the right tooling and an open, broad, and helpful community.

Join this web seminar to learn the basics of Robot and get started today.

Presenters:

Pekka Klärck, (LinkedIn profile) is a tester, developer and independent consultant from Finland with 20+ years of experience specializing in testing and test automation. He is the original author and the lead developer of the Robot Framework. In addition to developing the framework further in collaboration with the open source community, he organizes training courses and helps organizations around the world to use it efficiently.

Sérgio Freire (LinkedIn profile) is the Head of Solution Architecture for Xray, a Test Management app for Jira. Sérgio works closely with many different teams worldwide to help them achieve great, high-quality, testable products. He believes that by understanding how organizations work, processes & quality can be improved while development and testing can merge and act as a unique team, with a common goal: provide the best product that stakeholders need.

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Get Started Writing Automated Test Cases With Robot Framework

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Live Webinar June 25th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

While test automation is a struggle for many teams across the globe, there are companies that have mastered the technique and are executing a successful test automation strategy—and we can learn from them.

Join this web seminar to learn from Angie Jones’s extensive research on how these top companies are successfully approaching test automation. Get specific examples of effective test automation practices the speakers have seen from multiple consulting engagements, and discover what these innovative brands are doing right.

You will get:

1. A collection of empirical data highlighting common practices companies are employing to obtain test automation success
2. A roadmap to improve your automaton strategy over time
3. Recommendations based on case studies of a variety of companies that tapQA has consulted with

Presenters:

Angie Jones (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Developer Advocate who specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. She speaks & teachs at software conferences all over the world, writing tutorials and technical articles on AngieJones.Tech, & the leading the online learning platform Test Automation University.  Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the US and China. In her spare time, Angie volunteers with Black Girls Code to teach coding workshops to young girls in an effort to attract more women and minorities to tech.

Mike Wagner (LinkedIn profile) Test Architect & Principal Consultant with tap|QA;  has 13+ years of industry experience as a Software Tester, Engineer, Developer, and Architect. Mike is primarily focused on driving innovative test automation practices and strategies. He enjoys sharing his technical prowess and has given several technical presentations on test automation strategies and best practices. His areas of expertise are software testing, artificial intelligence, test automation and open source technologies.

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Successful Test Automation Practices From Innovative Brands

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Live Webinar June 15th, 2020 – 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Isn’t It Amazing?

Stakeholders drop software on our desk and expect us to test it with no requirements, no design and no product knowledge whatsoever. About the only clear thing is the absurd and unrealistic deadline. We are expected to bend over backward, spread magic pixie dust and heroically test quality into a product we never heard of before.

But testing in the dark is not impossible – and as Rob Sabourin (LinkedIn profile) shows it can even be a very valuable and fun experience.

Learn strategies to emerge from a murky fog into clear meaningful quality insights. Leverage unlikely sources about what stakeholder’s care about and what users really need the software to do.

Join Rob’s quest to find important bugs fast, let “testing in the dark” illuminate you!

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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Testing In The Dark

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