Live Webinar November 6th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Switching tools is almost always a headache, but it’s better to rip off the Band-Aid now, before your QA processes become too far removed from the modernization taking place throughout the rest of the software development lifecycle.

Join this web seminar to learn some top tips for designing an effective migration strategy that prevents QA from becoming a roadblock on your digital transformation journey. You’ll discover how to ensure a seamless integration into the modern tool stack that your development and delivery teams are likely already using.

Learn:

1. Six steps to make migration as painless as possible for your QA and development teams
2. How a large retailer planned a successful phased migration and integrated the entire testing tool stack in the process
3. How the entire software development lifecycle—not just testers—will benefit when you integrate quality into agile processes

Presenter: DJ Frank (LinkedIn profile) Senior Sales Engineer at QASymphony, came from the High Technology, Entertainment, and Communications business unit of Capgemini. DJ led multiple QA testing efforts for one of the largest US-based telecommunications companies. DJ also holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Vanderbilt University.

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Migrate Without Migraines:
Switching To A Modern Testing Platform

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Live Webinar October 16th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

AI and machine learning are the latest buzzwords to hit the software industry, but it seems like everyone has a different interpretation about what they mean and how they can help organizations be successful.

How do we make any sense of it all, and how does it apply to software test automation in a practical way?

Join this web seminar to learn about the state of AI and machine learning in software testing and how leading organizations are taking advantage of these technologies for smarter test automation.

Learn:

1. How to leverage AI and machine learning in the context of software testing
2. How to use machine learning to build a scalable testing practice that is efficient, consistent, and change-resistant
3. Ways AI and machine learning can help organizations achieve higher levels of automation and augmentation
4. How these technologies ultimately unblock the DevOps pipeline to deliver at the speed of agile

Presenters:

Diego Lo Giudice (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Forrester Research Inc., 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.

Mark Lambert (LinkedIn profile) Vice President of Products Parasoft, is responsible for delivering real value to the organizations adopting them. Mark leads a professional team that helps customers optimize their software development processes by applying technologies and methodologies to achieve their goals.

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Practical Applications Of AI & Machine Learning For
Smarter Test Automation

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Live Webinar October 9th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Developing A QA Strategy That Works Is Challenging

Developing a QA strategy that continues to work well as your organization scales is even more difficult.

While the market demands faster deployment cycles than ever before, QA teams are smaller than they have ever been, and many struggle to move as fast as they need to.

There’s no one-size-fits-all QA process, but the most successful teams have a few key characteristics in common.

Join Derek Choy to discover how organizations keep their QA teams and processes lean while gaining the insights they need to ship high-quality software.

Learn:

1. Why taking a strategic approach to how you test helps optimize QA resources, no matter the size of your team
2. How to set up your QA process for fast, clear insights, from testing environments to workflow integrations
3. The role of automation in a highly efficient QA workflow
4. How to use quality metrics to measure and iterate your QA strategy

Presenter: Derek Choy, (LinkedIn profile) CIO at Rainforest QA, drives technical innovation and scaling globally distributed engineering, as well as the product and professional services teams. Choy joined Rainforest QA from Aria Systems, where he was VP of engineering. Prior to Aria Systems, Choy was director of software development at eBay, where he led product development for its billing platform.

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Scaling QA Without Scaling Your QA Team

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Live Webinar October 2nd, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Today’s enterprises are driven by software. With most companies depending on a mix of internally hosted and SaaS-based applications, how do you ensure that all of these mission-critical applications are continuously empowering users rather than hindering them?

Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) and real user monitoring (RUM) solutions are wonderful tools for digging deep into technology issues as they arise, but they can present challenges when your primary goal is to measure application availability and performance, or when you don’t have control over the infrastructure.

Synthetic monitoring, however, monitors your applications by simulating users and directing the path taken through the application.

This directed monitoring doesn’t require changes to your application or servers and allows you to focus on availability and performance, so it offers many advantages as a primary solution or as a way to bolster your existing monitoring.

Join this web seminar to learn how to use synthetic monitoring within your data center to effectively monitor all of your critical applications.

Learn

1. The advantages of synthetic monitoring for tracking availability and performance of internal and third-party applications
2. The pros and cons of synthetic monitoring compared to APM and RUM
3. How synthetic monitoring can be used to monitor external application dependencies such as third-party APIs

Presenter: Troy Presley Sr. (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Engineer Apica brings 10+ years of experience in synthetic technical project management. He has a proven ability to communicate with both management and technical teams, and successfully drive projects from strategy to development and implementation.

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Using Proactive Monitoring To Ensure Your Application Performance Delights Your Users

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Live Webinar Sept 18th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Performance testers were the pioneers of agile testing. In fact, their approach is more closely aligned to what the industry now refers to as exploratory testing.

Performance tuning involves using the scientific method to correct and integrate previous knowledge via an iterative process. Each iteration starts with a defined question and an explanatory hypothesis that can be tested in a reproducible manner. The process is essential to helping the tester measure, evaluate, and improve system performance.

Join this web seminar to explore what we can learn from performance testers’ interactive “tuning” approach.

Learn how to:

1. The key exploratory testing principles that performance testers swear by
2. Strategies for applying those principles to functional testing
3. Real-world examples of what these techniques look like in practice

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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.

Tim Koopmans (LinkedIn profile) is a performance testing expert dedicated to making open source load testing tools and cloud testing infrastructure accessible to everyone. Tim engineered the Flood “shared nothing” architecture and holds the key to its unparalleled scalability and throughput. Tim also developed Ruby JMeter. Prior to Flood, & spent 10+ years as a performance and development consultant for companies across retail, finance, telecom, and government sectors.

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Optimizing Agile Testing:
What Functional Testers Can Learn From Performance Testers

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Live Webinar September 13th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

As testing shifts left, most organizations begin by focusing on continuous integration and continuous delivery, but too often they neglect the critical practice of continuous testing (CT). Continuous testing can reduce risk, improve response time to competitive and market events, and shorten time to deliver value to customers.

A successful CT implementation includes the right test automation framework for your unique environment and the ability to ensure your test code is always in sync with the product and product documentation, as well as metrics, measurement, and timely communications to keep you on track.

Join this web seminar to explore the essential components of a successful continuous testing environment.

Learn about these five crucial elements:

1. Framework: Open source, commercial, or a combination? Learn the pros and cons, and determine which test framework is right for you
2. Testing: Get a how-to guide for deciding which tests to automate and when to run them
3. Coding: Hear best practices for developing test automation code the right way to save time and reduce flakiness
4. Measurement: Identify KPIs that matter
5. Fast Feedback: Ensure the best possible mean time to resolution (MTTR)

Presenter: Eran Kinsbruner (LinkedIn profile) Mobile Technical Evangelist Perfecto,  and author of The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality; & Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals: A Practical Guide From Industry Experts has extensive experience in the mobile testing market. Prior to Perfecto, he was the mobile testing CTO at Texas Instruments and project manager at Matrix, and he co-invented a test-exclusion automated mechanism for mobile J2ME testing at Sun Microsystems.

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Creating A Successful Continuous Testing Environment

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