Live Webinar November 12th, 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Enterprise test automation is hard. Most testers understand the reality and are prepared for it, but some companies grossly underestimate the task, producing more debt than progress further down the line. Seeing results takes patience, perseverance, and thoughtful collaboration between colleagues.

What does that mean for the beginning, middle, and end of your TestOps journey? Is there ever really an end?

This web seminar analyzes how one company went from mostly manual testing to drastically improving their quality process and advanced test automation strategies in less than a year.

In this interactive webinar you will:

1. Challenges and obstacles common to teams just starting with test automation
2. Where the organization started and how they decided on test automation as the best route to success
3. The triumphs and value the organization realized as a result of taking the leap into test automation
4. How to integrate test automation into an overall quality approach

Presenters:

Ryan Silvera (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Automation Engineer

Mason Dula (LinkedIn profile) Automation Engineer

Crystal Escalante (LinkedIn profile) a senior strategic leader, she has extensive experience supporting QA solutions for enterprise-level applications and systems and managing large onshore/offshore teams in high-growth environments. Crystal brings a creative and knowledgeable approach to achieving business and product goals.

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Common Challenges In Scaling Enterprise Test Automation

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Live Webinar October 11th, 2018 – 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)

Many agile projects take a simplistic approach to “managing” user stories.

In fact, everything we learned in the requirement management discipline has somehow disappeared when user stories are used to describe desired functionality.

If we hope for the agile approach to scale up to help build complex systems and systems of system, then we need to go beyond the simplistic approach.

Very much like requirements in a non-agile project, user stories do not live in a vacuum. If you consider a more disciplined and more flexible agile project, then user stories change over time, they relate to other user stories, they related to test cases, scenarios, acceptance criteria and other project entities.

User stores are reviewed, finalized and approved. Tasks to implement user stories are assigned to team members and both estimated time and actual time to perform these tasks are tracked. Most importantly, progress in performing these tasks is tracked.

In this presentation, Dr Hanna will show how we can preserve much of the discipline we followed in the field of requirement management before agile and user stories ever existed.

The presentation will conclude with a short demo of the award winning Rommana ALM to show how we expect a tool to support a more disciplined approach to managing user stories.

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 the last thirty-five 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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Managing User Stories For Effective Development & Testing
With Rommana ALM

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Live Webinar September 25th 2019 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1.5 Hrs 1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Exploratory testing is a name given for a technique of using knowledge, experience, and skills to test software in a non-linear, investigatory fashion.

• Is it a powerful and important part of each professional tester’s repertoire, or actually magic quality pixie dust?
• Is this the only real way of testing, or is there room for other forms of validation as well as verification?
• What are the origins of exploratory testing, and who actually invented the technique (as opposed to coining the current name)?
• Does it always degrade into an unmanageable, unaccountable, random bug hunt, or are there ways to instill order, measure coverage, and build confidence with it?

In this webinar, Rex will explore and burst some of the myths of exploratory 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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Myths Of Exploratory Testing

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Live Webinar September 6th, 2019 – 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)

Artificial Intelligence is just starting its introduction into software quality assurance, and is most often, misunderstood in regards to the full capabilities the different kinds of artificial intelligence can bring into your quality strategy.

In this webinar Trevor will be discussing Reinforcement Learning, and its ability to automatically discover features in isolation as well as workflows using more than a single feature in your application under test.

Then, while cycling test data into these features and workflows, Trevor  will thoroughly test the features and workflows with a known, extremely high, test coverage.

After all, if you don’t know what your test coverage is (Note: Test Coverage is NOT the same thing as Code Coverage) then you don’t understand what quality you are assuring.

Trevor will also discuss using hierarchical, weight based, collapsible dendrograms for a visual presentation of the features and workflows possible within an application.

These topics are complex, however, Trevor  will get through them and each person in attendance will gain a working understanding of these concepts with real direction and guidance allowing you to use these methods as part of your quality strategy.

Presenter: Trevor Chandler  (LinkedIn profile) Founder TecStar Consulting & Automation Engineer, has over 150 completed test automation projects across 59 different companies, 13 world’s first’s achievements and 4 patents in artificial intelligence. Trevor solves quality problems using both familiar and new approaches.

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Using Selenium With Artificial Intelligence
To Generate Automated Tests

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Live Webinar August 27, 2019 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Performance Testing Is Easy, Right?

Grab a tool, record a transaction with the server, ramp up a thousand virtual users… What do you often get? A hot mess!

Performance testing is likely the kind of testing most likely to be done poorly.  It does not have to be that way.

Join RBCS  to learn what performance testing is not: not easy, not guaranteed, but not impossible to do well.

Much of a good performance testing program is not about using the tool at all;

Instead it includes all of the ISTQB buzzwords:

• Static testing,
• Early testing,
• Planning and
• Preparation.

Learn the basics of successful performance testing and improve your performance test project.

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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One Key Idea: Performance Testing

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Online Webinar  – Recorded August 30th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Over the last few years, there have been major advancements in DevOps practices, including Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and public and private clouds.

We also have seen companies and organizations introduce DevOps principles at a growing scale, moving from small teams to enterprise-wide implementations.

On the technical side, the advancement has been remarkable, but there is a fundamental aspect many teams fail to consider: Is the move to a DevOps model reflected in business results? In a world dominated by revenue growth and ROI, is the investment in a technical and cultural shift worth the effort?

Join this web seminar to discover how successful DevOps implementation and execution have driven positive business results for companies and organizations of various sizes.

Learn:

1. The requirements to implement DevOps across a large organization
2. How successful DevOps programs are supported by the company’s leadership and culture
3. How a DevOps implementation can drive revenue and improve efficiency

Presenters:

Eric Minick (LinkedIn profile) is a technical evangelist and consultant at UrbanCode. He has nine years of automation experience throughout the application lifecycle as a developer, test automation engineer, and production support engineer. Keep up with Eric’s latest insights on the UrbanCode blog.

Ann Marie Fred (LinkedIn profile) has been a software engineer for 20 years, and a manager for 3 years. Ann Marie worked in research, consulting, web portal development, IT systems management development, cloud computing, hybrid cloud, deployment automation, and most recently, web platform development and operations. Her specialties are DevOps, continuous delivery, cloud computing, virtualization, configuration management, distributed systems, software engineering, agile development, continuous integration, shift-left, and test automation.

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Driving Business Results With DevOps

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