Live Webinar May 8th, 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

As testers and quality leaders, many of us have a vision of how our testing processes and practices could be improved. But no matter how compelling your vision, success often depends more on execution than intention. So how do you make it a reality?

Quality leader Adam Satterfield will share the keys to effective execution, as well as the lessons learned from his own experience implementing new tools and processes to accelerate transformation.

Join this web seminar to learn how to turn your vision into reality with actionable steps …

Including:

1. Gaining support from peers and executives by humanizing pain points and quantifying business impact
2. Building and executing implementation plans for new processes and tools
3. Soliciting feedback and responding to objections and pitfalls along the way

If you can’t attend, if you register they will send you a link to the recording.

Presenter: Adam Satterfield, (LinkedIn profile) Director Of Testing & Quality Anthem, has been in the software testing industry for 20+ years. He has worked with several industries such as the military, SaaS, telecom, and health care. Adam enjoys leading and mentoring quality assurance teams as well as teaching testers how to find their inner testing star. Adam is currently responsible for creating quality standards and training teams on risk-based testing, ATDD, and session-based testing within Anthem.

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Transform Testing:
How To Turn Your Vision For Change Into Reality

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Live Webinar April 11th 2019 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT 
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Shifting defect discovery to earlier activities (Shift Left) reduces rework and improves quality deliveries to customers.  A lot of attention is paid to this part of “Shift Left and Down”, but how do we do the Shift Down?

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is the answer. A variety of techniques can be used with varying formalities, cost, and results; ranging from informal, 5-why, Ishikawa/fishbone to Cause-Effect.

• Which technique is the right one to use, and when should it be applied?
• Is your organization ready for RCA?
• What do you do with the results?

These questions and others will be discussed by Ed Weller, (LinkedIn profile) who will draw on 20 years of experience using RCA and onsite training across a wide range of businesses

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

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

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The Down Part Of Shift Left & Down

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Live Webinar April 9th, 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Roles in quality assurance (QA) and quality engineering (QE) tend to be ambiguous for agile teams pursuing the DevOps approach in their software development lifecycle. And misconceptions around these roles, automation, and which agile ceremonies make sense in DevOps only complicate the issue.

In this web seminar, Melissa Tondi will share her insights into how she consults with organizations—from startups to Fortune 100 companies—on ways QA and QE roles can add value to DevOps. She will discuss innovative ways to align agile and QA/QE activities to ensure a consistent, efficient, and productive playbook for DevOps.

Learn How To:

1. Retune test automation to make DevOps more efficient
2. Shift traditional QA and QE tasks left in the software development lifecycle
3. Make refinement meetings more efficient for all members of the team
4. Improve definitions around what is shippable and what is not

Presenter:  Melissa Tondi (LinkedIn profile) spent most of her career working with software testing teams. Founder of Denver Mobile and Quality (DMAQ), Past President & Board member of Software Quality Association of Denver (SQuAD), & professional services manager at Rainforest QA: she assisted companies to continuously improve the pursuit of quality software. Melissa has focused on building and organizing teams around three major tenets—”Efficiency, Innovation, &  Culture” using the greatest common denominator (GCD) approach for determining ways team members can assess, implement, and report on day-to-day activities.  In this way the gap between need & value is as small as possible.

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The QA/QE Role: Supporting DevOps The Smart Way

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Live Webinar April 4th, 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Although artificial intelligence is nothing new, applying AI techniques to software testing only really started to become feasible in the past year. But it’s undeniable that it will soon become part of our day-to-day quality engineering process. Before we get caught up in the excitement of the technology, let’s take a step back and assess how AI can help us achieve our quality objectives.

It’s been suggested that AI could be applied to actions such as prioritizing testing and test automation efforts, generating and optimizing test cases, enhancing UX testing, reducing tedious analysis tasks, and decreasing redundancies in test portfolios. However, should AI be applied in these cases? And where else could it assist?

Learn:

1. Where AI can deliver the greatest impact to software testing
2. Whether AI will soon take over software testing
3. The next steps testers need to take

Presenters:

Ingo Philipp (LinkedIn profile) MS Distinguished Evangelist at Tricentis, champions the methodologies, best practices, and technologies at the core of the company’s Continuous Testing solution. His insights on rethinking software testing and passion for elevating the role of the software tester have made him a sought-after speaker/author across the global software testing community. Previously Ingo worked as a theoretical astrophysicist in the field of high-energy particle physics and computational fluid dynamics at the University of Vienna and the Berlin Institute for Technology.

Stefan Januschke is on the product management team at Tricentis. In this role, his responsibilities range from core automation topics to Artificial Intelligence. He is constantly trying to understand testing needs and what can be changed to make better software with higher quality. Previously, Stefan was an automation architect, delivering services & projects for Fortune 500 customers around the globe.

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AI In Software Testing: Will A Bot Steal Your Spot?

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Live Webinar March 19th 2019 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss Test Estimation points and more, helping you be more effective in your software development projects.

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

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“Teacher, Teacher, Bugs Ate My Deadline,” &
Other Defect Management Disasters

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Live Webinar February 26th, 2019 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Selenium is a portable framework for testing web applications. Selenium provides a playback (formerly also recording) tool for authoring functional tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE).

It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala.

The tests can then run against most modern web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. It is open-source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license: web developers can download and use it without charge.

Learn more about Selenium Test Automation  Join Rex as he continues his One Key Idea webinars in 2019!

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

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Selenium Test Automation: One Key Idea Series

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