Live Webinar Noveber 10th, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Active apps demand constant care even if you are not changing anything.

This chaotic environment requires developers and testers to continuously enhance their testing practices.

In this web seminar, HP will share insights on how mobile analytics can help testers, developers, and designers improve their mobile applications—particularly the testing aspects of their projects.

You’ll learn techniques to improve release velocity and ways to become proactive in creating a better user experience.

You’ll also learn how to:

• Use big data analytics to improve testing and app quality
• Overcome the “long-tail” problem of mobile OS and device fragmentation
• Bridge the gap between big data and testing to improve app quality
• Speed up development and testing

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 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 Applying Mobile Analytics For Better Testing

Live Webinar – October 22nd 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

The Testing in an Agile Environment webinar provides insights into the Tester’s role on Agile projects.

Often, the Tester role is not clearly defined or understood.

This is especially true for teams transitioning from traditional methods. Webinar attendees will gain an understanding of the Tester’s role on the Agile project along with the quality responsibilities of the entire team.

The Tester’s role is not a defined role in Agile development.

The “Team” is considered to be “generalists”, with cross-functional skills. The Tester brings special skills and a unique perspective to the project.

The Agile environment changes our traditional ways of testing.

Many of those techniques still apply and Agile has introduced new testing strategies and methods.

Join Robert Tyson (LinkedIn profile) and gain an understanding of the value that the Tester brings throughout the Agile cycle and the whole team’s responsibility for quality.

Topics covered:

• How the Tester’s role changes
• The Tester’s role in the Agile framework
• Strategies to apply to testing

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 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 Testing In An Agile Environment

Live Webinar October 21st, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Automating user interface (UI) and visual testing is essential in fast-paced agile and mobile app environments—especially when continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) come into the picture.

However, because visual and UI features usually occur last in development, UI and visual testing often become a bottleneck in the development and delivery process.

Help is at hand!

Join this web seminar to learn about technologies, tools, and techniques to automate visual tests in ways that will improve—instead of impede—your dev/test and release workflows.

You will learn:

• How to incorporate automated visual tests into the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline
• Techniques and tools to increase test coverage, speed, and accuracy
• Tools and methods to decrease manual QA/testing
• Ways to leverage your existing infrastructure to automate test flows

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 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 Visual & UI Test Automation For Agile & Continuous Delivery Processes

Live Webinar October 1st, 2015 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar October 1st, 2015 – 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)

Have You Just Hired Or Have You Developed Your Test Team?

The IT industry is focused on developing software, and, for the last 20 years or so, we’ve been obsessed by the process by which software is developed.

However, since software is still built mostly by hand, are we talking too much about how we develop software and not enough about how we develop the teams that develop the software?

At RBCS, they think there’s been entirely too much religious warfare about SDLCs, and not enough healthy discussion of how to develop, build, and nurture our people.

So, in this webinar, Rex will describe a solid, proven process for determining the skills your team needs, assessing which of those skills your team already has, and putting in place a plan to grow the skills that are lacking.

Through this process, you can develop a test team that has the skills and experience needed to succeed—regardless of the chosen lifecycle.

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 am – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of Developing A Test Team

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of Developing A Test Team

Live Webinar September 15th, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Thanks to major outages, websites like Target, Southwest Airlines, Best Buy, and others have experienced firsthand the importance of mobile app performance testing.

Even if a mobile app functions perfectly, no one will use it if it takes twenty seconds to launch.

When performance is bad, it’s all that matters to customers. If performance testing is not part of your test plan, include it—whether it’s a requirement or not.

Learn:

1. Performance testing strategies for the real world
2. Approaches for finding bottlenecks and improving mobile app responsiveness
3. How to build performance testing into the mobile application lifecycle
4. How mobile performance influences user behavior

Join this web seminar to learn how to set performance targets for mobile applications and discover what types of testing will ensure you release high-quality applications that work—and work fast—every time.

Presenter: Aaron Rudger (LinkedIn profile, @arudger) Senior Product Marketing Manager Keynote, Aaron leads the product vision, strategy and evangelization for industry leading web and mobile monitoring solutions. Prior to Keynote Systems, Aaron held key marketing positions at Right90, BMC Software, Remedy Corporation and iPrint.com. Aaron is also a frequent speaker at industry events.

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’

Click to register for Mobile App Performance: The Critical Testing You’re Not Doing

Live Webinar Sept 8th, 2015 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar Sept 8th, 2015 – 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)

Why Do You Test?

Have you asked yourself that question before?

Try it. Then take the next step: Identify two or three colleagues with different roles and ask them why they think you test.

Typically, the lists won’t match up very well, and many times the lists include completely unrealistic objectives like,:

• Make sure the software works right before we put it into production,” or,
• “Find all the bugs before we ship.”

Instead, in this webinar, Rex will explain a process that will allow you to create a set of clearly defined, achievable, measurable set of objectives.

This process will also build consensus on those objectives within your team and across teams.

Tune in to this free webinar to step out of the confusion and into clarity on this important topic.

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 Why Do You Test? Achieving Consensus On Clearly Defined Test Objectives

Click to register for the 2:00 am – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of Why Do You Test? Achieving Consensus On Clearly Defined Test Objectives