Live Webinar August 7th, 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

End users now expect the same performance and experience on their mobile devices as they do on desktops.

This creates a daunting challenge for developers as multiple networks, devices, and iterations can cause a unique set of challenges for developing an application that provides a quality experience for all users.

One Web, a single web experience on all devices, is arriving with the aim to solve this predicament with technologies like responsive web design and context awareness in mobile operating systems.

With these changes, you’ll want to ensure that your users have a quality experience—no matter what device they use or what network they’re on—before releasing the application into production.

Learn firsthand from Neotys & Perfecto Mobile:

1. What’s driving One Web and how it affects your apps
2. Challenges with end user experience on mobile devices
3. What you’ll need to test across various devices and network conditions
4. How NeoLoad and MobileCloud integrate to solve these challenges

Presenters:

Bill Nicholson (LinkedIn profile) Director of Support & Services Neotys – Bill has over 20 years experience in managing software quality assurance projects for industry-leading organizations including Fidelity Investments and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bill is a performance testing tool expert with a number of Trainer/Teacher certifications from Neotys, IBM Rational, and HP.

Carlo Cadet MBA CISA CISSP Product Marketing Director Perfecto Mobile – Carlo is responsible for go to market strategy, product positioning, messaging and manages the customer reference program. Carlo also served his country as a Captain in the United States Air Force delivering command and control software programs.

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 Testing Mobile End User Experience in a One Web World

Live Webinar July 29th, 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Many organizations are embracing agile and lean practices to accelerate software delivery, and some are looking at continuous delivery and other DevOps technologies.

Frequently, organizations only end up accelerating development, pushing bottlenecks out to testing and beyond.
It does not have to be that way!

In their recent survey of test professionals, IBM and TechWell heard loud and clear that testers want to engage earlier in the development process and be involved from ideation to implementation.

In this interactive webinar you will learn:

1. How delivery teams—programmers and testers—can work in harmony and truly realize the benefits agile delivery offers
2. How to avoid having accelerated software delivery hit the wall when agility stops at testing and things start backing up
3. How testers can become the advocates of change in their organizations and really make a difference
4. How to reach the common goal of improving software quality

Join IBM and TechWell on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, as Janet Gregory, coauthor of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, shares her experience and expertise on transforming testing.

Don’t Forget to check out Janet’s very informative Blog!

Presenter:  Janet Gregory (LinkedIn profile, @janetgregoryca) Agile coach, trainer, quality process consultant DragonFire Inc. Janet Gregory is  a highly sought after Keynote speaker and the coauthor of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams.   Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product. For the past ten years, she has been working with teams to transition to agile development. Janet teaches agile testing courses and tutorials worldwide, contributes articles to leading publication.

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
• 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 Test Transformation: A Key Ingredient for Agile Software Delivery

Live Webinar – July 31st 2014, 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

Today’s automated testing tools provide robust methods for fully automating your testing efforts and streamlining your regression testing efforts.

In this free webinar, we’ll look at Coded UI Tests to speed up testing of your applications functionality and user interface.

Attendees will be provided a live demonstration of creating an automated test and implementing advanced features such as data-driven tests.

Bryon will show you how to create a test project of multiple automated tests that can run against any new build or release of your code.

Presenter: Bryon Brewer (LinkedIn profile)

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 Automate Your Tests! Using Microsoft TFS 2013 & Test Manager For Test Automation

Live Webinar July 29th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Want To Get The Most Out Of Your Usability Testing?

Start with the question: What are you trying to learn about your design and your audience?

Each question suggests the right usability testing method. It’s more than just remote vs. in-person. Are you trying to find out what happens or why it happens?

Trying to dig into what makes a design work best, or understand what people really need and want.

Those usability goals all suggest different ways to run the test.

Lou and Whitney will put the goals together with a recipe for planning a usability test, so you can mix your own.

This session will leave you  thinking about:

• Location and context: formal to informal
• Recruiting: defined to opportunistic
• Activities: instructed tasks to free tasks
• Questions: structured to unstructured
• Data collection: observation to task/data only
• Results: quantitative to qualitative

You can look beyond a single test, and think about how to use the right tool at the right time, with a balance of methods, and a ‘cadence’ that fits into your design and development schedule.

In the end, you’ll be able to match your questions to the right usability test method to get those answers.

Presenter:  Whitney Quesenbery (LinkedIn profile, @whitneyq) is the author of written three books  Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design and Global UX: Design and Research in a Connected World to help practitioners keep users in mind throughout the creative process. Her latest book, A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences is a collaboration with Sarah Horton. Look for Whitney’s next event on Lanyrd.

Presenter: Lou Rosenfeld (bio) is the author of the best-selling Books Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites and Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers ), Lou is also founder of Rosenfeld Media, co-founder of the annual Information Architecture Summit, and the Information Architecture Institute

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 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 What You Can Learn From A Usability Test

Live Webinar July 16th, 2014 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 Fundamentals Of Software Testing
The ST lifecycle

In this session you will learn about how it can be instrumental in achieving project success.

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

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 Explore the Software Testing Lifecycle

Live Webinar July 14th, 2014 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar July 14th, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Last year, Rex did a series of tweets over a few months, each one calling out a specific test management, testing, project management, or lifestyle best practice—or worst practice.

Rex has collected these practices into a two-part series of webinars.

At the beginning of the series, Rex will discuss the concept of best practices and refute the software testing canard that there are no best practices.

Next, in each webinar, he’ll describe a dozen or more of these practices, including examples of why it is a best practice—or a worst one.

Finally, at the end of the series, Rex will give some ideas on how you can remove worst practices and institute best practices in your organization.

Tune in and take part in the discussion.  After all, continuously improving your skills and knowledge is one of the best practices!

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   Testing Best–and Worst–Practices: Part 2

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of Testing Best–and Worst–Practices: Part 2.