Live Webinar April 11th 2019 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT 
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Shifting defect discovery to earlier activities (Shift Left) reduces rework and improves quality deliveries to customers.  A lot of attention is paid to this part of “Shift Left and Down”, but how do we do the Shift Down?

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is the answer. A variety of techniques can be used with varying formalities, cost, and results; ranging from informal, 5-why, Ishikawa/fishbone to Cause-Effect.

• Which technique is the right one to use, and when should it be applied?
• Is your organization ready for RCA?
• What do you do with the results?

These questions and others will be discussed by Ed Weller, (LinkedIn profile) who will draw on 20 years of experience using RCA and onsite training across a wide range of businesses

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

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 Down Part Of Shift Left & Down

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Live Webinar April 9th, 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Roles in quality assurance (QA) and quality engineering (QE) tend to be ambiguous for agile teams pursuing the DevOps approach in their software development lifecycle. And misconceptions around these roles, automation, and which agile ceremonies make sense in DevOps only complicate the issue.

In this web seminar, Melissa Tondi will share her insights into how she consults with organizations—from startups to Fortune 100 companies—on ways QA and QE roles can add value to DevOps. She will discuss innovative ways to align agile and QA/QE activities to ensure a consistent, efficient, and productive playbook for DevOps.

Learn How To:

1. Retune test automation to make DevOps more efficient
2. Shift traditional QA and QE tasks left in the software development lifecycle
3. Make refinement meetings more efficient for all members of the team
4. Improve definitions around what is shippable and what is not

Presenter:  Melissa Tondi (LinkedIn profile) spent most of her career working with software testing teams. Founder of Denver Mobile and Quality (DMAQ), Past President & Board member of Software Quality Association of Denver (SQuAD), & professional services manager at Rainforest QA: she assisted companies to continuously improve the pursuit of quality software. Melissa has focused on building and organizing teams around three major tenets—”Efficiency, Innovation, &  Culture” using the greatest common denominator (GCD) approach for determining ways team members can assess, implement, and report on day-to-day activities.  In this way the gap between need & value is as small as possible.

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The QA/QE Role: Supporting DevOps The Smart Way

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Live Webinar April 4th, 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Although artificial intelligence is nothing new, applying AI techniques to software testing only really started to become feasible in the past year. But it’s undeniable that it will soon become part of our day-to-day quality engineering process. Before we get caught up in the excitement of the technology, let’s take a step back and assess how AI can help us achieve our quality objectives.

It’s been suggested that AI could be applied to actions such as prioritizing testing and test automation efforts, generating and optimizing test cases, enhancing UX testing, reducing tedious analysis tasks, and decreasing redundancies in test portfolios. However, should AI be applied in these cases? And where else could it assist?

Learn:

1. Where AI can deliver the greatest impact to software testing
2. Whether AI will soon take over software testing
3. The next steps testers need to take

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.

Stefan Januschke is on the product management team at Tricentis. In this role, his responsibilities range from core automation topics to Artificial Intelligence. He is constantly trying to understand testing needs and what can be changed to make better software with higher quality. Previously, Stefan was an automation architect, delivering services & projects for Fortune 500 customers around the globe.

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AI In Software Testing: Will A Bot Steal Your Spot?

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Live Webinar March 29th, 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) – A Rommana Webinar

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,  Magdy 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.

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Managing User Stories For Effective Development & Testing

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Live Webinar March 19th 2019 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss Test Estimation points and more, helping you be more effective in your software development projects.

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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“Teacher, Teacher, Bugs Ate My Deadline,” &
Other Defect Management Disasters

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Live Webinar – February 26th 2019, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

As more DoD weapon and mission support systems become software dependent and networked, government agencies are being increasingly exposed to severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

This webinar will help DoD agencies and systems integrators, who support them, understand how pentesting can help secure next generation weapons and mission support systems.

We’ve been conducting penatration tests for decades, but with the technology evolution we’ve seen radical changes in today’s networks, including ubiquitous encryption, the death of the traditional network perimeter, and the advent of new end point devices, including a myriad of IoT devices.

Join Dr. James Stanger CompTIA’s chief technology evangelist and Mike Tanner Global Knowledge’s federal sales director discuss how pentesting has morphed.

Larn the relevant skills that a pen tester should have today, how organizations use a pen tester, and how to usefully “digest” information gained from a pen test.

Here’s What We’ll Cover:

• How the IT environment has changed radically in the last five years
• Penetesting challenges DoD agencies face today
• Responsible pen testing and the hacker lifecycle:
  • Why does the pen tester even exist?
• Understanding the “hacker’s dilemma”
• The “hacker’s dilemma” and the hacker lifecycle:
  • Mapping IoCs to steps in the hacker process
• Responsible pentesting: A demo

Session participants will earn 1 CEU for the following CompTIA certifications PenTest+, A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, CySA+, or CASP. Note: To receive the credit you must attend the entire webinar session.

Presenters:

Dr. James Stanger (LinkedIn profile) CompTIA’S Chief Technology Evangelist is a respected authority in security, open source, network administration, and IT certification. He has consulted with corporations, governments and learning institutions worldwide for over 20 years. James developed IT-based education and certification programs used around the world.

Mike Tanner (LinkedIn profile) Global Knowledge Director, Federal Sales serves as the Global Knowledge Federal Sales Director. Mike is responsible for delivering the latest technology training solutions to US Government agencies to help them achieve mission success. With 30+ years of experience in organizational management, solutions sales, development of strategic alliances, technical and business consulting and program management Mike previously served in leadership positions at Hitachi, Hewlett Packard, Xerox, Tandem Computers and Honeywell.

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Why Pentesting (Penetration Testing)
Is Vital To The Modern DoD Workforce

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