Live Webinar July 12th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar July 12th 2016 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

The boom in mobile applications and the continued growth of software usage worldwide has many test managers facing a happy challenge:

How do I hire really great testers?

Given that a great employee can be ten times as effective as a lousy employee, hiring the right people is a critical question for us as managers.

In this updated webinar, Rex will:

• Help you find answers to “How do I hire really great testers?”
• Examine what attributes you should look for in great testers.
• Talk about skills testers need, and how to measure and grow those skills.
• How to interview testers to make smart hiring decisions.

Join this webinar, illustrated with examples throughout, to learn ways to hire and grow a great test team.

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:
Hiring Great Testers

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of:
Hiring Great Testers

Live Webinar June 23rd, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Test automation, continuous integration (CI), and reliable test data provisioning are all key elements to making DevOps work, as they provide the necessary capabilities to quickly and securely test and release software.

Without these technologies, the DevOps promise of rapidly deploying new services and applications is only a dream.

Effectively managing test data reduces risk when implementing CI and DevOps, along with accelerating release cycles, improving quality, and cutting costs.

You’ll learn:

• How self-service test data powers DevOps and CI implementations
• How organizations have saved millions and slashed development cycles
• Common oversights when employing automation and DevOps
• How to release applications faster with confidence through improved collaboration, automation, and visibility

Join this web seminar to learn how to execute an integrated test data management approach that will deliver seamless automation, efficiency, and security to your DevOps and continuous integration efforts.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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.’

Click to register for:
Power DevOps Efficiency & Automation With
Seamless Data Management

Live Webinar June 15th, 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

As project requirements are gathered and the associated design evolves, the project team begins to build the necessary functionality.

This can be accomplished through utilizing the following methodology deliverables:

• high level design,
• detail design,
• requirements traceability log,
• programming specification(s),
• system integration test (SIT) plan(s),
• system integration test (SIT) evaluation criteria,
• unit test (UT) plan(s),
• unit test (UT) evaluation criteria, and
• training and support plan.

Walk away with a better understanding of how to apply these deliverables to your project.

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.

Click to register for:
Executing Projects With IT Methodologies

Live Webinar June 8th, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Quality engineering (QE) is a process by which software quality is not simply “assured,” it is tested, analyzed, and improved throughout the application development lifecycle.

When implemented correctly, QE drastically shortens testing time and creates more speed, flexibility, and reliability throughout the development lifecycle.

Transitioning from QA to QE provides huge benefits to performance, but it also requires significant changes to people, processes, and tools.

Attend this web seminar to learn the practical steps required to facilitate a shift from quality assurance to quality engineering, including:

• Getting started with a QE initiative
• Evolving your processes for QE
• Adapting job roles for a QE environment

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

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

• 4.4 Monitor & Control 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’

Click to register for:
Shift To Quality Engineering
To Better Test, Analyze & Deliver Software

Live Webinar June 1st 2016 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar June 1st 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Mobile apps have more users than PC apps, and people spend more time on mobile apps than on PC apps.

Mobile apps have been around since the 1990s, but the real explosion in mobile apps has occurred in the last ten years. And, while time-wasters and entertainment apps abound, mission-critical and safety-critical apps exist, and so quality matters.

What do we need to know about testing mobile apps?

It’s more than just a smaller screen, right?

In this webinar, Rex will describe the ten key things that mobile application testers must know. Join us for a quick introduction to the art and science of mobile app testing.

View PDF of webinar slides

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 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of:
Mobile Apps: Testing On The Small Screen

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of:
Mobile Apps: Testing On The Small Screen

Live Webinar May 17th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Let’s suppose you bought a car.
Six days later, someone from the dealership
Let himself into your garage …
Removed the tires on the car …
Installed some “updated” tires …
That actually had holes in them …
And then they left!

In the morning, your car was there in the garage, all sad and undriveable on its flat, flabby tires.  That’s clearly unacceptable, in fact even criminal!

But we allow the same thing to happen all the time with software!

Why?

In this webinar, Rex will catalog infamous automated software updates, released without sufficient testing to wreak havoc, or at least inconvenience.

Rex will then give a detailed roadmap for reducing your chances of being part of the problem.

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:
Defeating The Scourge Of
The Under-Tested Automatic Software Update