Live Webinar April 29th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Organizations are quickly adapting to the “new normal” as they attempt to minimize disruption caused by a sudden need to support testers working remotely, without compromising quality or efficiency.

Whether due to unanticipated global events or as part of your organization’s remote testing strategy, the need to continue your test cycles unhindered is paramount.

In this web seminar Frank Moyer will cover two essential aspects of scaling your remote testing capabilities: enablement and efficiency.

You have to learn what is needed from a people, process, and systems perspective to enable remote testing in your organization. Successful remote teams are born out of organizations that understand the culture shift needed.

But remote testing isn’t just about enabling your team and implementing the right culture. It’s more important than ever to maximize your testing efficiency to overcome any inherent challenges and shortcomings that a remote team may inject into your release cycles.

Learn:

• The importance of a culture shift to ensure success
• How your peers are managing remote testing
• What the testing landscape will look like after employees start returning to work
• Why many organizations are planning to allow employees to work remotely forever
• How to drive efficiency into your remote testing cycles

Presenter: Frank Moyer (LinkedIn profile) CTO at Kobiton Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgia Tech’s ATDC and former President/CEO of GeoIQ

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Enablement & Efficiency For Remote Testing Teams

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Live Webinar April 28th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

• Wouldn’t it be great to be able to see how our teams will be working next year?
• How about five years from now?
• Will your team be twice the size, or half? What will your company’s expectations around automation be?
• Will we all be replaced by robots?

Although we can’t offer you a time-traveling DeLorean, we do have two experts who will present their predictions for the short- and long-term trends for testing teams.

Together Alan Richardson and Joe Colantonio have a breadth of experience working with test engineers and developers, and they will be able to shine a light into what we should expect to unfold for testers in the future.

Joe & Alan will talk about:

• What the testing teams of 2021 and beyond will look like
• The ways we can make sure our teams are keeping on top of demand
• How shifts in the way companies approach digitalization will affect testing teams
• How testers can prove their worth

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Presenters:

Alan Richardson (LinkedIn profile) Independent Agile Coach / Consultant, has 20+ years of professional IT experience, working as a programmer and at every level of the testing hierarchy from tester through head of testing. He helps improve your use of automation, agile processes, and exploratory technical testing. Author of four books including Dear Evil Tester: Provocative Advice That Could Change Your Approach To Testing Forever, Java For Testers: Learn Java fundamentals fast and Automating and Testing a REST API: A Case Study in API testing using: Java, REST Assured, Postman, Tracks, cURL and HTTP Proxies . Alan also creates online training courses to help people learn Technical Web Testing and Selenium WebDriver with Java. Alan posts his writing & training videos on EvilTester.com, and CompendiumDev.co.uk.

Joe Colantonio (LinkedIn profile) Founder of Test Talks Podcast,  TestGuild, a blog; & Guild Conferences Author, speaker, and test automation architect at a Fortune 100 company Joe is dedicated to helping you succeed with all your full-stack E2E automation, performance, and security testing efforts.

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Back To The Future:
Exploring How Software Testing Is Going To Change

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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

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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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