Live Webinar September 2nd, 2021 – 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)

Test management has come to be equated with what various automated tools do, but truly managing testing as a project applies powerful practices to testing’s unique challenges and produces far greater results.

Learn to better define and communicate how you’ll reliably deliver testing’s full value so you can negotiate for the scarce time, resources, and influence you need to do it.

Learn:

• Common test management tool capabilities and limitations
• Added benefits of managing testing as a project rather than an activity
• Tailoring project management methods to testing’s unique challenges

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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Manage Testing Beyond A Test Management Tool

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Live Webinar August 26th, 2021 – 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.

Learn:

• 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”

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 August 26th, 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Inevitably in today’s world, speed to market and first to market strategies with the apps and services that run the world are top of mind for almost every development and product leader.

At the same time, no company can afford to sacrifice user experience just to ship new products out the door quickly.

To ship with confidence, more testing in staging and production environments must be done in less time. Faster development also means greater iteration.

Tests cannot become flaky due to constant and rapid changes to code repos, user stories, and databases. It is the only way that apps and services can be super responsive to customer needs and new market opportunities.

Although UI testing has come a long way since the first Selenium scripts were written, there are many parts of modern apps and services that UI testing can only validate inefficiently or not at all. Faster releases only exacerbate this final QA gap.

In this webinar, Sangit Patel, (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Engineer at Sauce Labs, reveals how easily you can add API functional and end-to-end testing to existing workflows to close the gap. Sangit also demonstrates how replacing some UI testing with API testing can shorten testing times by 40% or more.

Key Takeaways:

1. Testing must never be a bottleneck: Supplement UI testing with modern API testing to significantly lower risk, boost developer velocity and increase certainty in stable release schedules.
2. API testing must provide complete coverage: Leverage best practices for building and automating API functional, end-to-end, and load tests from the most popular API spec formats including Postman collections, Swagger, and OpenAPI.
3. Get an exclusive sneak preview of the latest API Fortress platform from Sauce Labs that was built from the cloud up for developers and QAs who want a fast, simple and scalable solution to add modern API testing to UI testing.

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Closing The Final QA Gap: UI Testing Needs API Testing

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Live Webinar August 18th, 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Higher throughput. Faster release velocity. Lower cycle time.

Leading companies are hurrying new features and updates into their products — WITHOUT sacrificing quality — by taking advantage of innovations in web & mobile test automation.

What’s their formula?

Join Eran Kinsbruner, in this session to find out — from principles to implementation.

Eran will share how successful companies are:

• Using intelligent test automation to advance release velocity
• Shifting from tedious manual cycles to automated regression cycles
• Using code within codeless tools for enhanced coverage
• Reducing test maintenance with innovations in AI & ML
• Resolving issues earlier, when they are the cheapest to fix

After the event, you’ll come away with a solid grasp of emerging & best practices for testing and releasing software in 2021 and beyond.

Presenter: Eran Kinsbruner (LinkedIn profile) Mobile Technical Evangelist Perfecto,  and author of The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality; & Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals: A Practical Guide From Industry Experts has extensive experience in the mobile testing market. Prior to Perfecto, he was the mobile testing CTO at Texas Instruments and project manager at Matrix, and he co-invented a test-exclusion automated mechanism for mobile J2ME testing at Sun Microsystems.

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How High-Growth Companies Test & Release In 2021

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Live Webinar August 13th 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)

How many times have you heard statements like:

• “How did we miss this in test”,
• “This defect doesn’t happen on my machine”,
• “We do not need automation”, or
• “We are waiting on testing to give us the green light”?

Far too often, teams are spending a lot of time diving into discussions that they no longer need to have. This builds frustration, affects team alignment, and can potentially impact the quality and milestones of the project.Through the years, we have seen a need for processes, tools, and old–school approaches to change.

Discussions we needed to have years ago are no longer the same now.

There is a need for strategic changes in how we operate within a project and how we communicate across teams.With over 25 years of experience in IT, Mike Lyles (LinkedIn profile) has held various roles: from developer, project management office, development management, and ultimately testing.

He has witnessed the paradigm shift required to measure success on teams and the speed at which we must reach goals as compared to the past. And most importantly, he has taken part in discussions which are losing their relevancy and need a major overhaul in our workforce today.

Join the discussion, between Rex and Mike, as they discuss many of the well–known phrases, philosophies, and theories around testing of years past, and how that we must overcome the obstacles to be successful today.

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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Discussions Testers Should No Longer Be Having

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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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