Live Webinar December 3rd, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

On agile teams, testing is considered an activity rather than a “phase” or a “role”, which can cause many teams that are new to agile to struggle with this concept.

Janet Gregory explains how agile integrates testing activities into the process and how testers add value to an agile team. Drawing on her extensive experience in agile testing,

Janet will demonstrate the benefits of collaboration and simplicity in activities including automation, ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development), and exploratory testing.

Learn how to identify testing needs not just for each story, but also for individual product features as well as the product as a whole. Attendees will also participate in hands-on exercises exploring common testing concepts.

Presenter: 

Janet Gregory (LinkedIn profile, @janetgregoryca) Agile coach, trainer, quality process consultant DragonFire Inc. Janet Gregory is  a highly sought after Keynote speaker and the coauthor of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams.   Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product. For the past ten years, she has been working with teams to transition to agile development. Janet teaches agile testing courses and tutorials worldwide, contributes articles to leading publication.

Sergio Freire (LinkedIn profile) Head of Solution Architecture is a solution architect & testing advocate, working closely with many teams worldwide from distinct yet highly demanding sectors (Automotive, Health, and Telco among others) to help them achieve great, high-quality, testable products. Sergio understands how organizations work, their needs, context and background, processes and how quality can be improved.

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Elevate Your Agile Testing Practices

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Live Webinar November 5th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

In today’s competitive environment, being the first to market is critical. However, what happens when there’s such a heavy focus on building teams and changing roles that the quality aspects of your transformation are put on the back burner?

Any move to agility may run into impediments if you haven’t engaged quality from the beginning, or worse, have rushed unfinished or buggy products to market.

In this one hour discussion, the panelists will talk about how organizations use an agile mindset and approach to transition from traditional ways of thinking to including a QMO when delivering quality products and solutions incrementally. We will explore the quality journey from an ad hoc and manual orientation to an automated continuous learning approach.

Presenters:

Jennifer Franklin (LinkedIn profile) brings 10+ years of project, product and service management experience to BCforward’s Quality Management Office. She has previously held the positions of Director and Service Coordinator. Jen takes pride in building and developing high performance teams focused on developing solutions to assist clients in executing their business objectives by adapting processes, services, technology, and resources to achieve outcomes. Jen graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Minor in Communication from Purdue University.

Chad Manley (LinkedIn profile) SPC, RTE, ICC-ACC, CSM, PSM1 & PMP Enterprise Agile Coach and Speaker; BCforward is an experienced Lean-Agile transformation consultant. Chad  works with large corporations to help them gain fluency in scaling agile, understanding the DevOPs mindset, and moving from a project management to Agile product management. Chad is also fluent in Atlassian toolset such as Jira. Whether coaching teams or individuals, Chad’s goal is helping teams achieve agile mastery. With 10+ years in Technology and 6+ years working with Agile Teams, he is leading several large scale agile transformations.

Michael Faulise (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Director Digital Marketing & Innovation BCforward is an Executive Leader who focus includes Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Innovation & Solutions. Michael has 20+ years in Consulting Services working with organizations like Allianz, NASDAQ, Amazon, United Heath, Boeing, Microsoft, HBO, and several other Fortune 500 clients. Michael has spoken at several national conferences & is now focusing on Digital Marketing.

Live Webinar October 29th, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

There is no place where the aphorism, “time is money” rings more true than in the fast moving world of finance. Hear how Tide, a business banking platform and one of the first digital-only finance platforms for small businesses in the UK, transformed their digital testing strategy to test faster and with better coverage.

Faced with little to no test automation coverage, and having to execute tests on the local devices, Tide knew there was a better way. Thanks to parallel execution, cloud infrastructure, end-to-end testing support and the close collaboration with the development team, Tide was able to vastly accelerate their smoke and regression testing, extend test coverage, and release high-quality, reliable apps to their members.

Join this webinar to hear from Tide’s Senior QA Engineer of Automation, Kumar Ashok, alongside Perfecto’s Solutions Engineer Julius Mong and learn how Tide’s testing transformation was accomplished. Kumar & Julius will cover how in just 6 months, Tide turned a 4-hour process of manual testing into only 12 minutes of automated testing.

Attend this webinar to learn:

• How Tide extended test automation coverage for web and mobile apps.
• How they accelerated smoke and regression testing from hours to minutes.
• See a live demo of parallel execution in the cloud.
• How a cloud solution helped them work seamlessly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Presenters:

Kumar Ashok (LinkedIn profile) Senior QA Engineer of Automation Tide is a multi-role software test automation enthusiast with more than 15+ years of technology experience. He is a collaborative professional with expertise in test automation and associated tools & practices. A productivity maximiser, he thrives on bringing better efficiencies in the overall software development lifecycle by the means of automation in different phases of development.

Live Webinar October 26th, 2020 – 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Uses & Misuses Of Common Testing Metrics

• Test case metrics.
• Defect metrics.
• Requirements coverage metrics.
• Code coverage metrics.

Metrics, metrics, metrics: 

• We got metrics in software testing, but do we use them properly?

Rex decided to have a discussion about how we use and, all too often, misuse metrics in software with fellow testing professional Dawn Haynes, (LinkedIn profile) a testing metrics skeptic.

There are sure to be some interesting disagreements as well as some unexpected agreements. Join Dawn and Rex for a lively back and forth on the topic of metrics, followed by a Q&A opportunity

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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Two Points Of View At Two:
Short High-Impact Talks About Testing

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Live Webinar October 15th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Mobile app developers and QA engineers are constantly looking for ways to streamline operations and to release apps and updates faster. But, as many enterprise mobility professionals have discovered, the path to improve mobile DevOps is challenging and not without obstacles.

How can busy teams finally get the results they want from their DevOps initiatives? The solution is to bring  test automation and infrastructure together into one enhanced platform to break down barriers and to accelerate DevOps in the testing lab.

Join this web seminar and discover the power of combining a built-in automation engine with a high-performing device cloud.

You will learn:

• How to enhance test automation performance and stability with a device cloud
• Ways that a built-in automation engine boosts mobile DevOps
• The benefits of having an all-in-one solution in your testing lab

Presenter:

Dan McFall (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO Mobile Labs has 20+ years of professional and executive experience in the B2B technology sector. Atlanta-based Mobile Labs, is a leading provider of mobile testing and device management solutions. Dan is a seasoned, knowledgeable executive with extensive experience spanning mobility, testing, Agile software development and technical support. He has worked with global organizations to improve their development and QA processes around mobile device and application testing.

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The Little Automation Engine That Could:
Boost Mobile DevOps With A Device Cloud

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Live Webinar September 17th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Quality testing and the concept of end-to-end have been around for a long time but the meaning of the latter varies depending on who you speak to.

True end-to-end test automation opens up a world of possibilities for companies both large and small whose contact centers and enterprise IT teams seek to optimize customer experience, reduce rework, and lower operational costs.

So what does end-to-end really mean and what functionality does it enable?

Explore:

• Automated user acceptance testing (UAT) and design
• What end-to-end is (and what it is not)
• Why end-to-end matters
• Why cross-functional team access to test automation rigs the game in your favor
• The advantages of hybrid test solutions

Presenter: Erik Delorey (LinkedIn profile) MBA Product Marketing Manager and Solutions Owner Hammer Test Automation product line at Empirix;  has designed, coded and executed test automation and network operations monitoring programs for the world’s largest service providers, financial institutions and government agencies for 20+ years. Erik is a Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a scientific society devoted to promote research in and responsible use of artificial intelligence.

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Rigging The Game In Your Favor:
How To Build User-Based, End-to-End Test Automation

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