Live Webinar May 24th, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

QA has undergone a revolution over the past ten years due to automated testing and more appreciation of QA by developers.

But building a successful QA team and running it effectively requires a critical understanding of team capabilities and behaviors.

Join this web seminar to learn a ten-point framework for successfully executing QA, including how to manage software testing, using test automation, how to measure QA, and evaluating the strength of your QA leadership.

Learn:

• Practices and considerations for managing tests
• Test automation tips and why experience with automation matters
• The right questions to ask in order to hire top QA leadership talent
• How to measure the overall performance of a QA organization

Presenter: Chris Valas (LinkedIn profile) Sr Director Program Management & User Experience Logi Analytics, has 30+ years’ experience when it comes to leadership of every aspect of the software development lifecycle. Throughout his expansive career, he has headed program management, user experience teams, and multiple development teams to bring many successful products to market.

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A 10-Point Framework
For Building A World-Class QA Team

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Live Webinar May 16th 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar May 16th 2017 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

If you are testing a simple mobile app, you may find it relatively easy to find representative test data. However, what if you are testing enterprise scale applications?

In the enterprise data center, one hundred or more applications of various sizes, comp lexity, and criticality co-exist, operating on various data repositories, in some cases shared data repositories.

In some cases, disparate data repositories hold related data, and the ability to test integration across applications that access these data sets is critical.

In this webinar, Rex Black will talk about the challenges facing his clients as they deal with these testing problems.

You’ll go away with a better understanding of the nature of the challenges, as well as ideas on how to handle them, grounded in lessons Rex has learned in over 30 years of software engineering and 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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Enterprise Challenges Of Test Data

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Enterprise Challenges Of Test Data

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Live Webinar May 9th, 2017, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

The Testing Foundation Is Broken

Current testing approaches are broken. Test teams lack the true automation needed to keep up with the continuous delivery engine that both the customer and the business demands.

At the same time, the gap is increasing between the priorities of the business owners and the test team. Our current approaches simply don’t put the user at the center of our testing practices.

The rules that testing, automation, and user experience were founded on have been broken by the consumerization of software, mobile apps, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the continuous delivery and DevOps approaches needed to support them.

Learn how to design a new approach to testing that puts users, automation, and a strong relationship between testers and business owners at the center of your testing practices.

Also learn:

• Why the consumerization of software, mobile apps, the IoT, and continuous delivery demand an all-new approach to testing
• How current test automation approaches don’t support continuous delivery
• Why we need to rethink our familiar “testing triangle” to put the user at the center of testing
• Four new principles that should be at the core of your next test strategy and how you can start applying them today

Presenter: Antony Edwards (LinkedIn profile) CTO and Board Member TestPlant, is responsible for all aspects of product strategy and roadmap, product delivery, and customer success and services. More recently he held the position of CTO with a major US online entertainment company. Australian born, Antony currently lives in London.

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4 Principles For Renewing Your Testing Strategy

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Live Webinar May 4th, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

DevOps environments demand shorter development cycles and a healthy amount of automation, while performance testing is time-consuming and requires manual human action.

So, how can you execute thorough performance tests in a fast-paced environment and integrate performance testing tools with a DevOps tool chain?

If you’re testing in a DevOps or any other time-constrained environment, you need to accelerate your performance testing cycles.

Learn:

• The impact of DevOps on the nature of performance testing
• What parts of performance testing can be automated in a DevOps environment
• How the role of performance tester is evolving
• Whether performance testing is morphing into performance engineering

Join this web seminar to learn how organizations can adopt smart performance testing techniques while still adhering to agile and DevOps principles.

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How To Fit Performance Testing
Into A DevOps Environment

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Live Webinar April 20th, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

When making the transformation to DevOps and agile, many organizations find it hard to meet tough product release schedules and to cope with large data sets. Triaging failures across multiple platforms has become tedious and time-consuming.

Reporting test-driven development (RTDD) is an innovative approach to agile testing that helps you write and implement tests with the end in mind (i.e., the test reports). RTDD puts structure, governance, and advanced capabilities into your test automation strategy.

RTDD enables the entire product team to collaborate and make data-driven decisions in real time, resulting in test scenarios and test suites that are structured and easy to manage.

Learn How To:

1. Use tagging and annotations to customize your test code
2. Easily filter big test data and drill down into specific failures per test, per platform, per result, etc.
3. Eliminate flaky tests by providing real visibility into failures
4. Use Jenkins and its Slack plugin to filter reports and quickly communicate status, allowing for data-driven decisions

Presenters:

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.

Tzvika Shahaf (LinkedIn profile) Director of Product Management Perfecto, focuses on quality intelligence and reporting and dedicates his time to help customers optimize their quality visibility and shorten their feedback loop cycle. He previously worked in business development and product leader roles at venture capital and startup companies.

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Drive Faster Quality Insights Through
Customized Test Automation Scripts

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Live Webinar April 4th 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

One important way to test software is based on the way it’s supposed to work, verifying conformance to specified behavior from user stories and requirements, and validating that the software solves the users’ and customers’ problems.

This is often called black-box testing. However, another way to test software is based on the way it’s built, which is the complementary concept of white-box testing.

We measure completeness of black-box testing through coverage of requirements, user stories, risks, personas, and more, and we measure completeness of white-box through code coverage.

In this One Key Idea session, Rex will explain the meat-and-potatoes of code coverage, statement coverage and branch coverage, and demonstrate these concepts with a free tool, gcov.

Technical and non-technical testers alike will walk away with a clearer understanding of this critical concept.

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 – Code Coverage
(Demonstrated With gcov)

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