Live Webinar Sept 18th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Performance testers were the pioneers of agile testing. In fact, their approach is more closely aligned to what the industry now refers to as exploratory testing.

Performance tuning involves using the scientific method to correct and integrate previous knowledge via an iterative process. Each iteration starts with a defined question and an explanatory hypothesis that can be tested in a reproducible manner. The process is essential to helping the tester measure, evaluate, and improve system performance.

Join this web seminar to explore what we can learn from performance testers’ interactive “tuning” approach.

Learn how to:

1. The key exploratory testing principles that performance testers swear by
2. Strategies for applying those principles to functional testing
3. Real-world examples of what these techniques look like in practice

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Presenters: 

Ingo Philipp (LinkedIn profile) MS Distinguished Evangelist at Tricentis, champions the methodologies, best practices, and technologies at the core of the company’s Continuous Testing solution. His insights on rethinking software testing and passion for elevating the role of the software tester have made him a sought-after speaker/author across the global software testing community. Previously Ingo worked as a theoretical astrophysicist in the field of high-energy particle physics and computational fluid dynamics at the University of Vienna and the Berlin Institute for Technology.

Tim Koopmans (LinkedIn profile) is a performance testing expert dedicated to making open source load testing tools and cloud testing infrastructure accessible to everyone. Tim engineered the Flood “shared nothing” architecture and holds the key to its unparalleled scalability and throughput. Tim also developed Ruby JMeter. Prior to Flood, & spent 10+ years as a performance and development consultant for companies across retail, finance, telecom, and government sectors.

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Optimizing Agile Testing:
What Functional Testers Can Learn From Performance Testers

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Live Webinar September 6th, 2018, 9:30 pm – 10:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Mobile apps are expected to work equally well across devices and operating systems, so many teams have automated test execution for consistency.

However, despite all the effort and tooling around automation of test cases, testing mobile apps comprehensively remains challenging and time-consuming.

By leveraging artificial intelligence and bots, you can speed up your testing and ensure the quality and performance of your mobile app across multiple devices. Moreover, you can make this technique work with your existing DevOps pipeline.

Join this web seminar to learn how to test your mobile apps with real devices and AI. You’ll discover how to achieve functional testing across device variations by using capabilities for the future.

Learn How To:

1. Speed up testing of mobile apps on real devices
2. Leverage AI and testing bots to achieve automation
3. Ensure integration with CI and collaboration tools
4. Deliver a memorable mobile user experience

Presenter: Avinash Tiwari (LinkedIn profile) Cofounders pCloudy (a part of Smart Software Testing Solutions); has 15+ experience in Product development and Testing. Avinash is currently based out of Bangalore and is an alumnus of IIT & MIT Sloan.

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Move Beyond Traditional Mobile App Testing With AI & DevOps

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Live Webinar August 21st, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Microservices, as the name implies, break up applications into many small pieces. Teaming microservices with DevOps is considered the new path to rapidly bring business value to software applications, and Docker is the primary containerization technology that can make microservices a reality.

Speed has a price, however. Breaking up applications introduces new types of issues that traditional architectures do not need to deal with.

Join this web seminar with Amy Feldman to learn about five ways to tame the container chaos.

Learn:

1. How analytics can be used to guide design decisions and identify practices that correlate to the higher levels of performance
2. Where, when, and how to enrich performance monitoring with detailed instrumentation and the value of additional metrics in cloud environments
3. How to extend support with synthetics to monitor the APIs that are key to driving communication between microservices
4. How increases in components, dependencies, and communication flows necessitate the need for automatic mapping and maintaining telemetry data
5. How to apply established configuration management techniques to containers using automation to preserve velocity

Presenter: Amy Feldman is director of CA APM Product Marketing, focusing on expanding thought leadership, sales enablement, and product marketing for CA APM. Previously Amy worked at HP, where she was a solution marketing manager for a cloud platform based on open source technologies such as Cloud Foundry, Docker containers, and OpenStack. In addition to her experience in marketing cutting-edge cloud technologies, Amy brings significant APM expertise to CA. During her career at HP, Amy served in product management, engineering, and technical marketing roles.

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Employing Microservices:
5 Ways To Tame Container Chaos

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Live Webinar August 14th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

In the software economy, innovation and speed are the new standards. However, teams cannot just focus on speed without considering the risk of delivering poor end-user experiences. How can teams create test strategies that prioritize and balance both quality and speed?

Join this web seminar to learn how teams can build strategies that balance the demands of a fast-moving release cadence with customer expectations for quality.

Learn How To:

1. Build test suites strategically to maximize impact
2. Cover all your bases without compromising time and resources
3. Audit your QA strategy by asking yourself five critical questions
4. Fix gaps and bottlenecks in your testing processes by adopting agile principles

Presenters:

Cambrie Marks (LinkedIn profile) is a Implementation Specialist with a demonstrated history of providing premium services and creative solutions to clients.

Jeff Pineda (LinkedIn profile) is an avid agile supporter and a CSM with a decade’s worth of experience working in quality assurance, project management, and production, mostly in the gaming space. Jeff has worked in the QA trenches, formed QA teams from the ground up for companies, and worked on day-to-day production operations for live titles while still managing teams. Jeff is passionate about challenging QA preconceptions determining how it could be done better and more efficiently, evangelizing agile principles and showing how powerful and adaptive they can be instead of just being catchy buzzwords. Jeff also has extensive experience with JIRA and Confluence.

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Developing With Quality In Mind:
A Blueprint To Power Up Your QA Strategy

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Live Webinar August 16th, 2018 – 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0.5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

For nearly ten years, RBCS has run a highly successful free webinar series, with almost 50,000 registrations from around the world.

In 2017, Rex Black introduced a short format webinar into the mix, the One Key Idea series that focus on delivering an intense shot of practical knowledge in a short package.

Now, in 2018, Rex continues to innovate. Rex is adding the Two Points of View at Two series to their monthly webinar rotation.  In each of these sessions, Rex will talk with another software luminary about topics of mutual interest, where the two have some different views.

After their talk, Rex will open the floor to questions. In 30 minutes, you’ll get powerful insights on important topics in software testing, software quality, and software engineering. Make it a point to join the conversation.

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 August 7th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

With the explosion of DevOps and a rise in app abandonment, today’s testing teams are under more pressure than ever to keep up with speed and quality expectations of a completely digital organization.

Now, testers are not only responsible for identifying bugs in an app, but also the speed at which you can deploy and, more importantly, the perception end users have of your product.

1. The good news: DevOps will only get faster.
2. The bad news:   DevOps​ will only get faster​.

That said, do you want testers drained from trying to keep pace with a DevOps methodology that doesn’t provide them the tools to excel?

How an organization prepares for this transformation will define the future of quality to their brand and company. AI and ML is only as good as the real people behind it. Only the most prepared organizations can harness the unfair quality advantages provided by AI and ML.

• Where does AI and ML go from here?
• Job displacement or job enablement?
• Human intuition or human interference?

The answer lies in management’s philosophy on the value of human capital.

In this web seminar you’ll hear merits from both arguments but be forced to make the decision yourself.

Learn:

1. What the future holds for AI in testing
2. If testers should fear job displacement
3. How to enable testers with AI
4. Tools for the future of test automation

Presenters:

Joe Colantonio (LinkedIn profile) Founder of Test Talks Podcast & Guild Conferences Author, speaker, and test automation architect at a Fortune 100 company

Mush Honda (LinkedIn profile) VP of Testing at KMS Technology Former Nexidia, E&Y, and Majeco industry leader with over 15 years of experience

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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The Future of Artificial Intelligence & Testing:
Will You Have a Job Tomorrow?

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