Live Webinar – Feb 13th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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

Ranorex is an excellent award-winning tool for test automation of many technologies allowing you to set-up robust test automation scripts for desktop, web and mobile applications and to manage and execute your automated tests.

Get an overview of the major Ranorex advantages:

• Test Automation of Many Technologies
  • The basis for robust test automation is accurate recognition and unique identification of user interface elements. Ranorex’ award winning object recognition makes it easy to deal with any user interface technology.
• Record and Edit Reliable Test Actions
  • Forget 1st generation capture&replay tools and coordinate-based test automation. The Ranorex Recorder simplifies not only the creation, but also the reusability and maintenance of recorded steps.
• Flexible .NET-based Automation Projects
  • Ranorex has not reinvented the wheel by providing another limited and proprietary scripting language. Within the test development environment, Ranorex Studio, testers create test suite projects based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, but without the need of being a programmer. Enhance your test suites and recordings with user specific automation code in C# and VB.NET.
• Reuse Automated Tests and Minimize Maintenance
  • One of the biggest challenges of automation is the associated maintenance. Ensuring reusability of automated test steps is one approach to reduce the effort in keeping automated tests up and running. Create, maintain and share a modular test automation solution within your test team and create your personal test automation library, which is flexible to use for everyone in your QA team.

Presenter: Martin Schloegl

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
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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 Building a Functional Test Automation Solution with Ranorex

Live Webinar Feb 5th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

(With Proof from Four Years of Fundraising Data from Wikipedia)

The Wikipedia fundraising team was performing up to 100 AB tests per week. It wasn’t enough to find the gains they needed. They needed to use statistics to interpret Their AB tests accurately, but also to estimate smallest acceptable sample sizes to increase testing frequency. They were not comfortable trusting methods proposed by other practitioners or academics who could not prove that their methods would work accurately for Wikipedia data.

In this webcast talkZack Exley (Strata bio, Wikipedia) and Sahar Massachi (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio) will present simple methods that we believe accurately predict future performance from AB test results, and that allow them to determine the smallest acceptable sample size.

Using four years of AB testing data, they’ll show that these methods really work. By taking a walk through four years of data, they will show how their current methods would have predicted the actual outcomes of long tests with much smaller samples, and the implications of various decisions about statistical confidence, power, sample size and choice of statistical method.

This webcast session will be useful to anyone who performs AB tests, manages teams that rely on AB testing, or holds responsibility for implementing or maintaining AB testing platforms.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Control Quality

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 How to Get Statistics Right in AB Testing: The Short Answer

Live Webinar Jan 30th, 2014, 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

We all did that so many times, it’s second nature.

But have you ever thought about the process of fixing bugs?

Maybe (just maybe), if we understand the process, rather than keep ourselves busy by fixing each and every bug separately, we can improve it, and perhaps minimize time spent on these pesky bugs.

So to do that, Gill will discuss the following In this session:

1. Analyzing bug data
2. What can tests (both passing and failing) tell us
3. Risk analysis before we begin
4. Fixing the damn thing
5. Making sure the bug won’t come back to bite us

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for How to Fix a Bug? Understanding The Risks And The Processes!

Live Webinar January 2nd, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST or
Live Webinar January 2nd, 2014 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Software Quality In General Is Pretty Bad

If you’re a professional tester, that statement is no surprise. What does surprise people, even testers, is how much damage a single bug can do.

In this free webinar, Rex will examine case studies of ten bugs that caused:

• At least $1,000,000 in damage,
• The death of at least one person,
• Or both.

Beyond just recounting the bug and its damage, we’ll look at how—or even whether—better software testing could have detected the bug before it did its dirty work.

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 Ten Bugs that Shook the World

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of Ten Bugs that Shook the World

Live Webinar Dec 11th 2013, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST or …
Live Webinar Dec 11th 2013, 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm am EST
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Examine Tools & Metrics for Agile Projects

Lots of organizations are adopting Agile. Some of these organizations are finding practical ways to integrating testing into Agile lifecycles.

In this presentation, Rex will address challenges and opportunities associated with Agile, different ways of adapting Agile lifecycles and the testing within those lifecycles, and how Agile differs from traditional lifecycles.

Rex will:

• Address whether Agile can be used for outsourced projects.
• Look at different options for organizing test teams on Agile projects,
• Determine why only some of these options can work.

Rex will offer his thoughts on Agile and quality, and what skills and personalities work best in Agile projects.

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss these points and more, giving you a better shot at Agile testing success.

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 11:00 am – 12:30 am EDT presentation of Agile Testing in the Real World

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of Agile Testing in the Real World

Live Webinar November 7th, 2013, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

• Is your company embracing TDD?
• Want to improve your skills?

Test Driven Development (TDD) ensures good design and better code with fewer bugs.

In this interactive webinar Typemock will:

1. Difference between unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)
2. Benefits of TDD
3. Problems and pitfalls and how to overcome them
4. Principles of TDD
5. How to test both new and complicated legacy code with TDD

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for Intro to Test Driven Development (TDD)