Live Webinar November 5th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

In today’s competitive environment, being the first to market is critical. However, what happens when there’s such a heavy focus on building teams and changing roles that the quality aspects of your transformation are put on the back burner?

Any move to agility may run into impediments if you haven’t engaged quality from the beginning, or worse, have rushed unfinished or buggy products to market.

In this one hour discussion, the panelists will talk about how organizations use an agile mindset and approach to transition from traditional ways of thinking to including a QMO when delivering quality products and solutions incrementally. We will explore the quality journey from an ad hoc and manual orientation to an automated continuous learning approach.

Presenters:

Jennifer Franklin (LinkedIn profile) brings 10+ years of project, product and service management experience to BCforward’s Quality Management Office. She has previously held the positions of Director and Service Coordinator. Jen takes pride in building and developing high performance teams focused on developing solutions to assist clients in executing their business objectives by adapting processes, services, technology, and resources to achieve outcomes. Jen graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Minor in Communication from Purdue University.

Chad Manley (LinkedIn profile) SPC, RTE, ICC-ACC, CSM, PSM1 & PMP Enterprise Agile Coach and Speaker; BCforward is an experienced Lean-Agile transformation consultant. Chad  works with large corporations to help them gain fluency in scaling agile, understanding the DevOPs mindset, and moving from a project management to Agile product management. Chad is also fluent in Atlassian toolset such as Jira. Whether coaching teams or individuals, Chad’s goal is helping teams achieve agile mastery. With 10+ years in Technology and 6+ years working with Agile Teams, he is leading several large scale agile transformations.

Michael Faulise (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Director Digital Marketing & Innovation BCforward is an Executive Leader who focus includes Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Innovation & Solutions. Michael has 20+ years in Consulting Services working with organizations like Allianz, NASDAQ, Amazon, United Heath, Boeing, Microsoft, HBO, and several other Fortune 500 clients. Michael has spoken at several national conferences & is now focusing on Digital Marketing.

Live Webinar October 29th, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

There is no place where the aphorism, “time is money” rings more true than in the fast moving world of finance. Hear how Tide, a business banking platform and one of the first digital-only finance platforms for small businesses in the UK, transformed their digital testing strategy to test faster and with better coverage.

Faced with little to no test automation coverage, and having to execute tests on the local devices, Tide knew there was a better way. Thanks to parallel execution, cloud infrastructure, end-to-end testing support and the close collaboration with the development team, Tide was able to vastly accelerate their smoke and regression testing, extend test coverage, and release high-quality, reliable apps to their members.

Join this webinar to hear from Tide’s Senior QA Engineer of Automation, Kumar Ashok, alongside Perfecto’s Solutions Engineer Julius Mong and learn how Tide’s testing transformation was accomplished. Kumar & Julius will cover how in just 6 months, Tide turned a 4-hour process of manual testing into only 12 minutes of automated testing.

Attend this webinar to learn:

• How Tide extended test automation coverage for web and mobile apps.
• How they accelerated smoke and regression testing from hours to minutes.
• See a live demo of parallel execution in the cloud.
• How a cloud solution helped them work seamlessly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Presenters:

Kumar Ashok (LinkedIn profile) Senior QA Engineer of Automation Tide is a multi-role software test automation enthusiast with more than 15+ years of technology experience. He is a collaborative professional with expertise in test automation and associated tools & practices. A productivity maximiser, he thrives on bringing better efficiencies in the overall software development lifecycle by the means of automation in different phases of development.

Live Webinar October 26th, 2020 – 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Uses & Misuses Of Common Testing Metrics

• Test case metrics.
• Defect metrics.
• Requirements coverage metrics.
• Code coverage metrics.

Metrics, metrics, metrics: 

• We got metrics in software testing, but do we use them properly?

Rex decided to have a discussion about how we use and, all too often, misuse metrics in software with fellow testing professional Dawn Haynes, (LinkedIn profile) a testing metrics skeptic.

There are sure to be some interesting disagreements as well as some unexpected agreements. Join Dawn and Rex for a lively back and forth on the topic of metrics, followed by a Q&A opportunity

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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Two Points Of View At Two:
Short High-Impact Talks About Testing

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Live Webinar October 23rd, 2020 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514)

Bug reporting, bug fixing, and re-testing is a very time consuming and costly cycle that we all love to shorten.

It is even worth when bugs are reported by customers after release. Not only because of the interruption it causes to operation and the frustration that it causes to users. Not only because of the time the customer has to wait until the problem is fixed, retested and released as, in many cases, they might have to wait until the next release.

It is mostly because of the disappointment and the loss of confidence caused by the appearance of new bugs where things worked before and are no longer working – regression problems, sounds familiar?

If you have been in software development for a number of years, I am sure you have witnessed the impact of rework on team productivity. And, if you have been in a management position for a while, you probably also have felt the frustration of customers.

Have you ever thought what type of bug reports you get from customers and why we get them?

Getting answers to these two simple questions is the secret of how to minimize or even prevent those bug reports from coming back to your team. In fact, it is also the secret of defect prevention. I am really talking about the secret of Doing it Right the First Time; Something software teams have struggled with for many years.

Your team might have used things like scenarios or acceptance criteria. They might have used agile, TDD, BDD, continuous delivery, continuous testing, and other seemingly promising methods.

Has any of these helped your team achieve the ultimate goal of Doing it Right the First Time or even minimize the number expensive bug reports?

The Scenario-Based development and testing process as implemented in Rommana ALM has proven to reduce the number of bug reports by more than 70% and has shown a major increase in requirement coverage and code coverage.

This webinar will shed the light on this process and show how you can get your team, agile or not, to start using it.

Presenter: Dr. Magdy Hanna PhD (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His highly rated seminars in various topics over 35+ years have spanned various aspects and capacities of software projects and processes.

He has trained over 50,000 professionals around the world over the last 20 years. As a professor of Software Engineering at the University of St. Thomas , he taught graduate courses on several software engineering topics with emphasis on practical software quality techniques.

Dr. Hanna developed new approaches and methods in software engineering including the Scenario-Based Development and Testing (SBDT), Requirement-Based Project Management (RBPM), Software Quality Engineering Methodology (SQEngineer), the Unified Data Model (UDM), and the Data-Driven Object Model ( DOM ). Dr. Hanna and his instructors conduct hundreds of free online webinars each year.

Dr. Hanna also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Test Professionals, a publication of IIST, now the Bug Free Zone.

Dr. Hanna is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of several organizations:

• International Institute for Software Testing,
  • leading educational and professional development organization that provides education-based certifications to software test and quality professionals around the world.
  • Dr. Hanna serves as the Chairman of Advisory Board for the Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) and the Certified Test Manager (CTM) credentials.
• International Institute for Software Process
  • leading professional development organization that provides education-based certifications to software process improvement professionals around the world.
  • Dr. Hanna serves as the Chairman of Advisory Board for the International Software Process Improvement Certification (ISPIC).
• International Conference on Practical Software Quality and Testing,
• International Conference on Software Process Improvement,
• RommanaTM Software
  • In this role, he is the Chief Architect of an Integrated Software Lifecycle Management System.

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Doing It Right The First Time:
Scenario-Based Development & Testing Using Rommana ALM

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Live Webinar October 15th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Mobile app developers and QA engineers are constantly looking for ways to streamline operations and to release apps and updates faster. But, as many enterprise mobility professionals have discovered, the path to improve mobile DevOps is challenging and not without obstacles.

How can busy teams finally get the results they want from their DevOps initiatives? The solution is to bring  test automation and infrastructure together into one enhanced platform to break down barriers and to accelerate DevOps in the testing lab.

Join this web seminar and discover the power of combining a built-in automation engine with a high-performing device cloud.

You will learn:

• How to enhance test automation performance and stability with a device cloud
• Ways that a built-in automation engine boosts mobile DevOps
• The benefits of having an all-in-one solution in your testing lab

Presenter:

Dan McFall (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO Mobile Labs has 20+ years of professional and executive experience in the B2B technology sector. Atlanta-based Mobile Labs, is a leading provider of mobile testing and device management solutions. Dan is a seasoned, knowledgeable executive with extensive experience spanning mobility, testing, Agile software development and technical support. He has worked with global organizations to improve their development and QA processes around mobile device and application testing.

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The Little Automation Engine That Could:
Boost Mobile DevOps With A Device Cloud

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Live Webinar October 9th, 2020 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514)

Performance testing isn’t the first thing organizations think about when moving to DevOps – in fact, it’s often ignored as traditional approaches don’t jive well with the fast and nimble world of DevOps.

However, performance is still a critical part of the user experience, and poor performance and outages will quickly negate the value of the features you’re delivering.

Lee believes that organizations don’t have to gamble with application performance & will discuss techniques for implementing continuous performance testing in your pipeline, so you don’t have to roll the dice on your user experience.

Topics Will Include:

1. Performance testing activities at each stage of the pipeline
   • From the unit level through testing in production
2. How to rethink your approach to performance testing and work with your DevOps practices
   • instead of against them in areas like test environment and data management.
3. You’ll walk away with a new outlook on performance testing in DevOps
4. Ideas you can begin to implement in your pipeline.

Presenter: Lee Barnes (LinkedIn profile) has 25+ years of experience in the Software Quality Assurance and Testing field. Lee has successfully implemented test automation and performance testing solutions in hundreds of environments across a wide array of industries. He is a recognized thought leader in his field and speaks regularly on related topics. As Founder and CTO of Utopia Solutions, Lee is responsible for the firm’s delivery of software quality solutions which include DevOps Quality, test automation, and performance management.

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Continuous Performance Testing In The DevOps Pipeline

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