Live Webinar September 7th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Some people use the terms “verification” and “validation” interchangeably, but there are significant differences between them.

Some people disparage verification, or deny that it’s even involved in testing.

However, you can’t adequately build confidence and reduce risk in the software you test without using the proper mix of both.

In this webinar, Rex will clarify the meaning of these two terms, give examples, and explain why both are essential to proper software testing.

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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Verification and Validation:
What’s the Difference & Why Both Matter

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Live Webinar August 31st, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: StickyMinds/Techwell

Today’s users are unforgiving when it comes to performance expectations, often refusing to reuse a service after hitting performance roadblocks.

When slowdowns occur during the holiday season—when customer demands are at their peak—the business impact can be disastrous.

Join Micro Focus to learn how to eliminate your mobile and web performance issues and ensure a quality user experience under the most stressful user demands.

Learn the 3 most critical performance-optimization practices:

• Understanding true user performance experience across devices and regions
• Confirming the effectiveness of your responsive web strategies
• Ensuring back office/order processing systems will scale with the increased web/mobile demand

Hear a real-world example of how one large retailer eliminated holiday shopping traffic risks and had a successful holiday shopping season.

Bonus offer: Web seminar registrants are invited to participate in a complimentary, personalized performance assessment on any website they choose to see how it is currently performing. Registrants also receive free credits toward cloud-based performance testing.

Unable to attend the live event? Just reserve your seat now, and we will send you instructions on how to watch it at your convenience once the archive launches.

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Web & Mobile Performance Testing Strategies
To Beat The Holiday Rush

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Live Webinar August 25th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar August 25th 2016 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing:

1. Irrelevance/redundancy
2. Ignorance of relevant skills or facts
3. Obstructionism
4. Adversarialism
5. Nit-picking
6. Blindness to project/organizational priorities
7. Last-moment-ism

Are you your own worst enemy?

You might recognize your own behaviors, or behaviors of others on your test team. Rex will discuss these seven sins and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Rex gives examples of these behaviors through case studies, and tells you how to stop the behaviors and solve the problems those behaviors have created. For sinners and non-sinners alike, Rex offers ideas on how to become a testing saint.

Join Rex and discuss these seven deadly sins.

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 Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of:
The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

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Live Webinar August 17th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

As the project team develops the code to meet the authorized requirements, the newly built functionality must be verified to ensure it reflects the authorized requirements and satisfies the business need.

This can be accomplished by implementing the following integrated methodology deliverables:

• Project status report,
• Team status report,
• Issue definition,
• Risk definition,
• Change request,
• Unit test defect log(s),
• System integration test (SIT)
• Defect log(s),
• User acceptance (UT) defect log,
• Requirements traceability log

Learn how to each deliverable can be beneficial to your project.

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Project Control & Verification

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Live Webinar August 4th, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Whether you call it your “definition of done,” “list of constraints,” “global acceptance criteria,” or something else entirely, many agile teams rely on a documented, shared understanding of when a user story is complete. Oddly, performance testing is rarely mentioned.

Performance is becoming a crucial part of user experience, and user experience is becoming an integral part of development.

It’s no longer an option to produce user stories for web and mobile apps where “working code” only works when the application isn’t under load.

Join this web seminar to learn tried-and-true practices for testing performance without slowing down agile development. You’ll learn:

Advantages of using “definition of done” for performance instead of non-functional stories:

• How to add performance testing to your “definition of done”
• When completed user stories can skip performance testing
• How to automate performance testing to keep pace with development

Presenters:

Steve Weisfeldt (LinkedIn profile) Senior Performance Engineer Neotys; is a provider of load testing software for web applications. Having been in the load/performance testing space since 1999, Steve is an expert at enabling organizations to optimize their abilities to develop, test, and launch high-quality applications efficiently, on time, and on budget. Prior to Neotys, Steve was president of Engine 1 Consulting, a services firm specializing in all facets of test automation.

Tim Hinds (LinkedIn profile) Director of Product Marketing Neotys; has a background in agile software development, Scrum, kanban, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous testing practices. Previously, Tim was product marketing manager at AccuRev, where he worked with software configuration management, issue tracking, agile project management, continuous integration, workflow automation, and distributed version control systems.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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.’

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Agile Teams Need Performance Testing
In Their Definition Of Done

Live Webinar July 19th, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Most organizations have internal processes to address performance problems, but they are typically reactive—occurring only after online performance has already been degraded.

Relying on a defensive strategy to address performance problems can negatively impact end-users and revenue before you’re able to identify and solve the issue.

This session will explain how to customize performance practices to build proactive internal testing processes.

These methods will help you detect and solve performance problems before they make it into production and cost you money and customers.

Learn learn how to:

• Customize your test processes using the latest performance tools
• Get ahead of issues with real-user and synthetic monitoring
• Prevent negative user experiences that impact the bottom line
• Solve performance issues proactively, before they become problems for your users

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’

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Proactive Strategies For Finding & Fixing Performance Issues