Live Webinar August 31st, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: StickyMinds/Techwell

Today’s users are unforgiving when it comes to performance expectations, often refusing to reuse a service after hitting performance roadblocks.

When slowdowns occur during the holiday season—when customer demands are at their peak—the business impact can be disastrous.

Join Micro Focus to learn how to eliminate your mobile and web performance issues and ensure a quality user experience under the most stressful user demands.

Learn the 3 most critical performance-optimization practices:

• Understanding true user performance experience across devices and regions
• Confirming the effectiveness of your responsive web strategies
• Ensuring back office/order processing systems will scale with the increased web/mobile demand

Hear a real-world example of how one large retailer eliminated holiday shopping traffic risks and had a successful holiday shopping season.

Bonus offer: Web seminar registrants are invited to participate in a complimentary, personalized performance assessment on any website they choose to see how it is currently performing. Registrants also receive free credits toward cloud-based performance testing.

Unable to attend the live event? Just reserve your seat now, and we will send you instructions on how to watch it at your convenience once the archive launches.

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Web & Mobile Performance Testing Strategies
To Beat The Holiday Rush

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Live Webinar – August 23rd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Whether for holiday readiness, specific events, or general performance, many organizations struggle to create accurate testing plans.

Why?

Because they lack visibility into exactly how their customers behave.

In t his webinar Dan Bartow (LinkedIn profile) Principal Product Designer, SOASTA & Lauren Younger (LinkedIn profile) Director of Product Management, SOASTA will explore the details of how test plans are typically created and how they can be drastically enhanced — and even automated — by using actual user behavior data to ensure accuracy and efficacy.

Learn about:

• Current trends in performance testing
• Reasons why load testing in production is not optional for most organizations
• How to use Real User Monitoring (RUM) data to enhance test plans
• How leading edge data science technologies can drastically reduce costs for expensive load tests and increase revenues by discovering unexpected user behavior
• How retail organizations use intelligent testing for holiday readiness and other key events

Your takeaway from this webinar will be actionable answers to the question:

• What should I test, and how should I test it?

The SOASTA Digital Performance Monitoring platform enables the seamless convergence of data, analysis, planning, and reporting. The result: the most accurate performance testing models in the world.

Through deep analysis of Real User Monitoring (RUM) data — such as user paths, user bounce rates, user think time, user geography, third party analytics, and peak analysis (including specific days, times, and pages) — organizations are now able to generate automated test reports that tell them what to test, when to test, where to test, and how (to what load) to test.

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Welcome To The Intelligent Testing Revolution!

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Live Webinar August 25th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar August 25th 2016 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing:

1. Irrelevance/redundancy
2. Ignorance of relevant skills or facts
3. Obstructionism
4. Adversarialism
5. Nit-picking
6. Blindness to project/organizational priorities
7. Last-moment-ism

Are you your own worst enemy?

You might recognize your own behaviors, or behaviors of others on your test team. Rex will discuss these seven sins and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Rex gives examples of these behaviors through case studies, and tells you how to stop the behaviors and solve the problems those behaviors have created. For sinners and non-sinners alike, Rex offers ideas on how to become a testing saint.

Join Rex and discuss these seven deadly sins.

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

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of:
The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of:
The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

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Live Webinar August 4th, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Whether you call it your “definition of done,” “list of constraints,” “global acceptance criteria,” or something else entirely, many agile teams rely on a documented, shared understanding of when a user story is complete. Oddly, performance testing is rarely mentioned.

Performance is becoming a crucial part of user experience, and user experience is becoming an integral part of development.

It’s no longer an option to produce user stories for web and mobile apps where “working code” only works when the application isn’t under load.

Join this web seminar to learn tried-and-true practices for testing performance without slowing down agile development. You’ll learn:

Advantages of using “definition of done” for performance instead of non-functional stories:

• How to add performance testing to your “definition of done”
• When completed user stories can skip performance testing
• How to automate performance testing to keep pace with development

Presenters:

Steve Weisfeldt (LinkedIn profile) Senior Performance Engineer Neotys; is a provider of load testing software for web applications. Having been in the load/performance testing space since 1999, Steve is an expert at enabling organizations to optimize their abilities to develop, test, and launch high-quality applications efficiently, on time, and on budget. Prior to Neotys, Steve was president of Engine 1 Consulting, a services firm specializing in all facets of test automation.

Tim Hinds (LinkedIn profile) Director of Product Marketing Neotys; has a background in agile software development, Scrum, kanban, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous testing practices. Previously, Tim was product marketing manager at AccuRev, where he worked with software configuration management, issue tracking, agile project management, continuous integration, workflow automation, and distributed version control systems.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Agile Teams Need Performance Testing
In Their Definition Of Done

Live Webinar July 19th, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Most organizations have internal processes to address performance problems, but they are typically reactive—occurring only after online performance has already been degraded.

Relying on a defensive strategy to address performance problems can negatively impact end-users and revenue before you’re able to identify and solve the issue.

This session will explain how to customize performance practices to build proactive internal testing processes.

These methods will help you detect and solve performance problems before they make it into production and cost you money and customers.

Learn learn how to:

• Customize your test processes using the latest performance tools
• Get ahead of issues with real-user and synthetic monitoring
• Prevent negative user experiences that impact the bottom line
• Solve performance issues proactively, before they become problems for your users

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Proactive Strategies For Finding & Fixing Performance Issues

Live Webinar July 20th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

Explore the fundamentals of the software testing lifecycle (STLC). In this session you will learn how and why the STLC will be instrumental in achieving project success and delivering quality.

This general overview provides descriptions of the deliverables involved in the STLC and how to apply them to your projects.

Benefits

• Gain an understanding of the scope and objectives of the software testing lifecycle (STLC)
• Learn the phases of the software testing lifecycle
• Understand the interactions and dynamics of the software testing lifecycle with the project management lifecycle and the software development lifecycle

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Exploring The Software Testing Lifecycle