Recording Your Story:
Note Taking In Software Tests

Author: EdmontonPM

May 26

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Duration: 45 Minutes Credits: .75 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: TestHuddle.com

Last year Shmuel Gershon recorded a very nice webinar about taking notes while testing. It’s about 45 minutes long, so I recommend you taking some paper & pencil before watching it.

When you go to a conference, a talk, or watch a webminar, somebody is going to tell you something, be it an idea, a story, a set of instructions, whatever, and you better take notes.

Taking notes will help you understand and remember better. At the moment you are listening to the talk, everything might make sense in your head, but this is just because somebody else is driving you thoughts.

Would love to try something that came out in one talk?

Here is where some notes will help you more than anything else.

Shmuel Gershon (LinkedIn profile, @sgershon) is an experimented tester who specialized himself in exploratory testing and in note-taking.

 

In this webinar, Shmuel Gershon will explore what types of notes can be important for testers, and learn practical hints on how to take these notes.

These hints are based on experience and observations, and also on the way professionals from different domains like journalism or education take their own notes.

You can find more stuff from Shmuel at his site.

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Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 8.1 Plan Quality Management
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  • 9.3 Develop Project Team

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    • How To Get Automated Testing “Done”

    Author: EdmontonPM

    May 13

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    Live Webinar – May 19th 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
    Live Webinar – May 19th 2016, 4:00 – 5:00 BST
    Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
    Presented by: TestHuddle.com

    Test automation has been around almost as long as software has been developed.

    In the age of Agile and the DevOps arena, having tests fully automated is increasingly becoming a key factor to the success of a project.

    The best place for the creation of tests is the agile sprint team, where product owners, developers and QA’s work together.

    Tests and their automation should be ready when a sprint is “DONE”!

    However, more often than not teams find themselves in a situation where the functionalities under test are ready, but the tests are not.

    In this webinar Hans Buwalda will go through a number of solutions a team can do to diminish this problem, and what actions to take when it happens.

    Hans will discuss the following solutions:

    • How one can apply better test design to drive better automation,
    • A number of technical strategies, what developers and product owners can do to help, and
    • How to handle the testing and automation work that is still left after a sprint has finished.

    A key item in  handling the test automation work that is left over is that QA’s need to own the testing from the beginning, and should not get stuck in the work of previous sprints, since that will inhibit good cooperation with other team members, making matters worse.

    Key Takeaways:

    • Get more tests created and automated.
    • Make automation manageable and maintainable.
    • Keep the QA people in sync with their fellow team members.

    Presenter: Hans Buwalda (LinkedIn profile) is with LogiGear, USA and  has been working with information technology since his teen years. Author of Integrated Test Design and Automation : Using the Testframe Method, Hans gained his experience as a developer, manager, and principal consultant for companies and organizations worldwide. Hans was a pioneer of the keyword approach to testing and automation, now widely used throughout the industry. His approaches to testing—action-based testing and soap opera testing—have helped a variety of customers achieve scalable and maintainable solutions for large and complex testing challenges. Hans is a frequent speaker at STAR conferences.

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    • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
    • 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
    • 5.3 Define Scope
    • 8.1 Plan Quality Management
    • 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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    • Defeating The Scourge Of
    The Under-Tested Automatic Software Update

    Author: EdmontonPM

    May 11

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    Live Webinar May 17th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
    Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
    Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

    Let’s suppose you bought a car.
    Six days later, someone from the dealership
    Let himself into your garage …
    Removed the tires on the car …
    Installed some “updated” tires …
    That actually had holes in them …
    And then they left!

    In the morning, your car was there in the garage, all sad and undriveable on its flat, flabby tires.  That’s clearly unacceptable, in fact even criminal!

    But we allow the same thing to happen all the time with software!

    Why?

    In this webinar, Rex will catalog infamous automated software updates, released without sufficient testing to wreak havoc, or at least inconvenience.

    Rex will then give a detailed roadmap for reducing your chances of being part of the problem.

    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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    • Striving for Zero Bugs on the Test Environment

    Author: EdmontonPM

    May 11

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    Live Webinar – May 16th 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
    Live Webinar – May 16th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 BST
    Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
    Presented by: TestHuddle.com

    As Kevin Harris explains the topic of the webinar:

    When I first started 18 years ago, the tester’s role was pretty simple – find as many bugs as you can. That was it. And I was pretty good at that – in my first few years I found literally thousands of bugs.

    Many years later we like to think that we are much better testers than we used to be – more experienced, using more techniques and more tools to find bugs in more and more interesting ways.

    We are often working on systems incredibly more complex than we ever used to, with more moving parts and more things that could go wrong.

    And yet many of us are not raising anywhere near as many bugs that we used to.

    So why is that?”

    This webinar looks at 10 simple improvements in the way testers work which means that they’re now either catching bugs before they get to the test environment, or, even better, preventing them from happening in the first place.

    Presenter: Kevin Harris (LinkedIn profile), NewVoiceMedia, UK – has been in Software Testing for more than 15 years, working in a variety of industries – loyalty, travel, health, Government, marketing and communications.  Kevin worked  in a variety of roles from Tester to Test Manager (via Developer, Business Analyst and Scrum Master), and is is specifically interested in the Agile Process and the positive effect it has had on the Development process. 

    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

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    • Test Process Improvement: How Hard Can It Be?

    Author: EdmontonPM

    May 10

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    Live Webinar – May 17th 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
    Live Webinar – May 17th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 BST
    Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
    Presented by: TestHuddle.com

    Over the last 20 years Geoff Thompson has been involved in many Test Process Improvement projects.

    Today the amount of change and improvement going on in testing is growing, so this is still a very important part of what testers have to do.

    People complain that they can’t calculate any benefits, that testers won’t change and why do they need to deliver quick wins?

    This presentation looks at how to make any improvement project a success, and it does this by using some fun case study examples looking at how Geoff has seen things go wrong, and from the depth of despair Geoff will look at how things can be made to be successful.

    The title of this talk was something a very senior manager once said to Geoff, – How hard can it be write a new process, just do it and just put it on peoples desks, that’s all there is to it. It will just take you a couple of weeks.

    Geoff believed him at first, but have since learned his lesson.

    The techniques Geoff  will be discussing are just as appropriate in Waterfall as they are in Agile, and DevOps. Come and learn all about it!

    Key Takeaways:

    • Understand how to structure a process
    • Understand the 8 steps to success
    • Understand key success factors

    Presenter: Geoff Thompson (LinkedIn profile) is the Consultancy Director for Experimentus. working globally Geoff has a real passion for software testing. He is a founder member of the International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB), the TMMi Foundation, and the UK Testing Board and is currently the Secretary of the ISTQB and Chairman of The UK Testing Board. He co-authored the BCS book Software Testing – An ISEB/ISTQB foundation. In 2008 Geoff was awarded the European Testing Excellence Award.

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

    • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
    • 5.3 Define Scope
    • 8.1 Plan Quality Management
    • 8.3 Control Quality

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    • 3 Keys to Continuous Performance Validation: Automate, Collaborate, Reuse

    Author: EdmontonPM

    Apr 21

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    Live Webinar April 27th, 2016, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
    Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
    Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

    Users today want all web and mobile applications to respond as quickly as a Google search.

    They also want cool new features and apps that make their lives easier.

    So your teams adopt practices like agile, DevOps, continuous integration, asset reuse, and automation to deliver faster and more efficiently.

    But how do you balance the velocity of development with the time-consuming performance testing tasks required to ensure your users are delighted by your app’s performance?

    Voke analyst Theresa Lanowitz and Senior Performance Engineer at Netoys Brad Stoner will take a deep dive into the answer—continuous performance validation.

    Continuous performance validation is the practice of using automated and collaborative tools to test and monitor application performance at every step of the application development lifecycle.

    Learn How To:

    • Employ automation throughout the entire development lifecycle
    • Test for performance early and often—even in development
    • Reuse assets to balance quality with the speed of development
    • Run realistic end-to-end tests in pre-production for business critical apps
    • Monitor the same transactions in production and pre-production

    Presenters:

    Theresa Lanowitz (LinkedIn profile) Founder Voke, Inc.; is recognized worldwide as a strategic thinker and influencer in application lifecycle, virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile markets. From 1999 through 2006, Theresa was a research analyst with Gartner, where she was the founder, creator, and chairperson of the highly successful Application Development conference. She also spent time at McDonnell Douglas, Borland, and Sun Microsystems.

    Brad Stoner (LinkedIn profile) Senior Performance Engineer Neotys and founded Sandbreak Digital Solutions, a consulting company specializing in web application performance testing, web page optimization, front end optimization, capacity testing, infrastructure validation, and cloud testing. Over the past twelve years in IT, Brad has held varying roles, from systems engineering to operations management.

    PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
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    Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

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    • 5.3 Define Scope
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