Live Webinar April 14th, 2020 – 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

José Mata has worked over 20 years as a Software Quality Assurance consultant and manager, working in Austin, San Francisco, New York, and Paris.

As a member of the American Software Testing Qualification Board (ASTQB) Technical Advisory Group, José wrote questions for the Foundation Level qualification exams.

He is currently a Senior Software Test Engineer with NarrativeDx, an Internet startup in Austin Texas, providing AI driven analyses of healthcare data.

In this session, José & Rex will discuss moving Selenium automated testing from concept to implementation and overcoming basic “gotchas” in bootstrapping Selenium testing

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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Selenium Testing:
Two Points of View At Two With José Mata

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Live Webinar April 7th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

You’re beginning a greenfield project. Your agile transformation is calling for a tech revolution. You’re part of a testing center of excellence. Or your needs just aren’t being met anymore.

Whatever the reason, you’re in the market for new testing tools, and you have all the freedom in the world … and no idea what you’re doing.

Shopping for new tools is not unlike dating.

You need to ask yourself the same questions:

1. What am I looking for?
2. Do they fit in with the picture I have for my future?
3. Will they get along with my friends and colleagues?
4. On top of that, the testing tool landscape has changed so much in just the past few years. What expectations should you have?
5. Where do you even go to “meet” these new tools?

Join this web seminar to explore what you should be looking for when evaluating testing tools so you can find “the one” for you and your software team. After all, nothing’s worse than being stuck in an unsatisfying relationship.

• Ways to help you decide how you want your tests to look and how to build your list of requirements
• Capabilities offered by today’s new-generation test tools that might help you
• Good ways your team can test-drive and compare tools

Can’t attend the live event? No worries! Register now and we will send you the recording.

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Speed Dating In The Tool Pool

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

Exploratory testing is a skilled, multidisciplinary style of testing. It treats test design, test execution, and learning as parallel, mutually supportive activities, so testers can find things they don’t know that they don’t know.

Exploratory testing isn’t new, but it has evolved thanks to agile methodologies and test automation.

Being able to self-manage your testing work and your learning—making discovery and reflection a habit—is what differentiates skilled exploratory testing from randomly putting activities together.

Exploratory testing frames thinking around the system and creating artifacts to support testing.

An hour of testing can be completely different in different contexts. With exploratory testing, we make the best possible use of our limited time with intelligent testing that delivers results.

You will learn:

1. What exploratory testing is and how it is done
2. Why you should include exploratory testing in your projects
3. How exploratory testing is conducted in agile environments, and its connection with test automation
4. How to deliver results in limited time with intelligent testing

Presenters:

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.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi (LinkedIn profile) Feedback Fairy& Lead Quality Engineer F-Secure, actually identifies herself as an empirical technologist, tester and programmer, catalyst for improvement, author / speaker,  community facilitator and conference organizer. You can catch her latest thoughts on her blog.

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Exploratory Testing Essentials

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Live Webinar March 31st, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Test strategies should be as varied and tailor-made as the teams and organizations that need them, but far too often we see the same boilerplate and cliched strategy documents (if there is a strategy at all).

Strategy documents have developed a reputation for being too broad or vague to inspire action, or too inflexible to accommodate changing requirements. As a result, testing teams either lose sight of the broader vision or abandon the strategy document altogether.

We Can Change That!

Join Adam Satterfield, (LinkedIn profile) to learn useful tips for building a better test strategy, along with a helpful metaphor that can inspire a more creative approach.

Learn how to:

1. Lead a strategy session that encourages creative thinking and helps team members develop a shared sense of purpose
2. Create a solid test strategy that is flexible enough for agile, SAFe, and DevOps environments
3. Develop a layered approach to test automation that offers a solid foundation and accommodates additions and alterations

Presenter: Adam Satterfield, (LinkedIn profile) Director Of Testing & Quality Anthem, has been in the software testing industry for 20+ years. He has worked with several industries such as the military, SaaS, telecom, and health care. Adam enjoys leading and mentoring quality assurance teams as well as teaching testers how to find their inner testing star. Adam is currently responsible for creating quality standards and training teams on risk-based testing, ATDD, and session-based testing within Anthem.

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A Creative Approach To Building Better Test Strategies

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Live Webinar March 25th 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)

If you’ve been testing for any length of time, you know that the number of possible test cases is enormous if you try to test all possible combinations of inputs, configuration values, types of data, and so forth.

It’s like the mythical monster, the many-headed Hydra, which would sprout two or more new heads for each head that was cut off. Two simple approaches to dealing with combinatorial explosions such as this are equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis, but those techniques don’t check for interactions between factors.

A reasonable, manageable way to test combinations is called pairwise testing, but to do it you’ll need a tool. In this inaugural

In this “One Key Idea” session, Rex will demonstrate the use of a free tool, ACTS, built by the US NIST and available for download worldwide.

Rex can’t promise to turn you into Hercules, but you will definitely walk away able to slay the combinatorial Hydra.

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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One Key Idea: Pairwise Testing Using ACTS

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Live Webinar March 10th 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)

If you’ve been testing for any length of time, you know that the number of possible test cases is enormous if you try to test all possible combinations of inputs, configuration values, types of data, and so forth.

It’s like the mythical monster, the many-headed Hydra, which would sprout two or more new heads for each head that was cut off. Two simple approaches to dealing with combinatorial explosions such as this are equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis, but those techniques don’t check for interactions between factors.

A reasonable, manageable way to test combinations is called pairwise testing, but to do it you’ll need a tool. In this inaugural

In this “One Key Idea” session, Rex will demonstrate the use of a free tool, ACTS, built by the US NIST and available for download worldwide.

Rex can’t promise to turn you into Hercules, but you will definitely walk away able to slay the combinatorial Hydra.

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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One Key Idea: Pairwise Testing Using ACTS

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