Live Webinar July 15th, 2015 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.

Click to register for Exploring The Software Testing Lifecycle

Online Webinar – Recorded January 13th 2015
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

When a software development professional first hears about Agile, they are often initially incredulous that this type of approach can work due to a misperception that Agile simply means “no planning.”

This belief could not be further from the truth.

Agile teams tend to plan more throughout the course of a project than a traditional approach, albeit in a different fashion than they may be accustomed to. Rather than planning once at the beginning of a project, Agile teams practice continuous planning throughout the project.

This web seminar will explore the five Levels of Agile planning, and how they help teams ensure that teams are able to benefit from what they learn over the course of their development and delivery efforts.

Click to register for The 5 Levels of Agile Planning

Live Webinar July 7th, 2015 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar July 7th, 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)

Free tools are great, because they are always in budget, right?

Well, not always, because your time is valuable. You can waste a lot of time if you misuse free tools.

However, with commercial tool vendors pounding down your doors, trying to convince you to buy their gee-whiz test tool (often with a gee-whiz price tag to match), you might forget to look at the open-source test tool options available to you.

In this talk, drawn from three decades of industry experience including recent consulting work with many clients, Rex will provide some case studies—and the lessons we can learn from them—in successful use of free tools.

Rex will also give some cautionary tales of free tool usage gone astray.

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 Case Studies In Successful Use Of Free Tools

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of Case Studies In Successful Use Of Free Tools

Live Webinar June 29th, 2015 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar June 29th, 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)

So many test tools are bought, downloaded for free, built, or otherwise acquired in a given year, but how many of those tools are still successfully in use four or five years later?

It’s a depressingly small percentage. Many times, the root cause of tool failure was failing to understand the problem you were trying to solve with the tool in the first place.

In this webinar, Rex will describe a straightforward process that you can use to ensure that you capture a detailed set of requirements for your test tool, which can be used to evaluate tools and vendors.

By applying this process, you can improve your chances of avoiding the “failed test tool” syndrome!

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 Specifying Test Tool Requirements

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of Specifying Test Tool Requirements

Live Webinar July 1st, 2015, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Although traditional testing models worked great for individual applications, today’s testers are challenged with ensuring mobile devices, smart appliances, media channels, developmental environments, and business applications all connect seamlessly.

To keep up, QA organizations must redefine test strategies to meet the demand for application agility through increased test automation, continuous testing, and repositioning QA from a quality gateway to a delivery accelerator.

Attend this web seminar to learn how to adapt your testing to meet the needs of today’s connected world.

Learn the five must-dos::

1. Organize testing in a lean way
2. Use shift-left and shift-right testing
3. Build a practice for testing skills
4. Reduce manual testing in favor of automation
5. Automate test data and environments provisioning

Presenters:

Diego Lo Giudice Vice President, Forrester Research Inc., primarily contributes to and advises on Forrester’s offerings for Application Development & Delivery Professionals. Diego is a leading expert on SDLC processes and practices, covering topics such as agile development, agile and lean transformations, agile development sourcing strategies and services, agile testing practices and tools, DevOps, and software testing and quality, with a key focus on systems of engagement. Diego also covers software delivery metrics, artificial intelligence, and open source governance.

Manas Chakraborthy (LinkedIn profile) Global Head of Testing Services, Mindtree, has more than two decades of experience in the industry and is an IT delivery transformation coach. He is a testing specialist and holds the patent for Test Factory in a Box, a shared services platform to carry out end-to-end testing. He was instrumental in creating the Automated NextGen Testing Framework (integrated with DevOps principles) jointly with HP. Manas launched and led testing as a service and has enabled organizations to set up testing centers of excellence. He helps assess IT process maturity by benchmarking it against quality frameworks like CMMI/TPI and TMMI.

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 Five Must-Dos for Testing in a Connected World

Live Webinar – June 24th, 2014 1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

For years, testing has been considered a second-class citizen when it comes to the pecking order of importance in any software development endeavor.

The words, “I am a tester,” might typically get a response along the lines of sympathy card from Hallmark – “Oh, sorry to hear that. Keep plugging away, you’ll make that leap up the hierarchy at some point.”

With today’s complexity found in all areas of software, not just e-commerce, but cloud, and just about anywhere that has software acting in some way as the front end to some activity initiated by a user, testing has become a complex role that encompasses more than just an assembly-line mentality of checking the box and moving onto the next item.

Today’s testing is not your father’s Oldsmobile.

There is an “e” in testing. But it’s not the one that you are thinking of, nope. Today’s “e” is found in multiple areas that today’s testing encompasses. Today’s “e” is Performance Engineering. Today’s “e” is User Experience. Today’s “e” is Data Science.

Join SOASTA senior product evangelist Dan Boutin (LinkedIn profile, @DanBoutinSOASTA) and SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein (LinkedIn profile) as they discuss how testing has changed and must continue to change to meet the needs of today’s software development landscape of agile processes and continuous deployment.

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 Make Testing A First-Class Citizen In Your Development Process