Live Webinar August 30th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
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

Presenter:

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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Live Webinar August 21st, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Microservices, as the name implies, break up applications into many small pieces. Teaming microservices with DevOps is considered the new path to rapidly bring business value to software applications, and Docker is the primary containerization technology that can make microservices a reality.

Speed has a price, however. Breaking up applications introduces new types of issues that traditional architectures do not need to deal with.

Join this web seminar with Amy Feldman to learn about five ways to tame the container chaos.

Learn:

1. How analytics can be used to guide design decisions and identify practices that correlate to the higher levels of performance
2. Where, when, and how to enrich performance monitoring with detailed instrumentation and the value of additional metrics in cloud environments
3. How to extend support with synthetics to monitor the APIs that are key to driving communication between microservices
4. How increases in components, dependencies, and communication flows necessitate the need for automatic mapping and maintaining telemetry data
5. How to apply established configuration management techniques to containers using automation to preserve velocity

Presenter: Amy Feldman is director of CA APM Product Marketing, focusing on expanding thought leadership, sales enablement, and product marketing for CA APM. Previously Amy worked at HP, where she was a solution marketing manager for a cloud platform based on open source technologies such as Cloud Foundry, Docker containers, and OpenStack. In addition to her experience in marketing cutting-edge cloud technologies, Amy brings significant APM expertise to CA. During her career at HP, Amy served in product management, engineering, and technical marketing roles.

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Employing Microservices:
5 Ways To Tame Container Chaos

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Live Webinar August 14th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

In the software economy, innovation and speed are the new standards. However, teams cannot just focus on speed without considering the risk of delivering poor end-user experiences. How can teams create test strategies that prioritize and balance both quality and speed?

Join this web seminar to learn how teams can build strategies that balance the demands of a fast-moving release cadence with customer expectations for quality.

Learn How To:

1. Build test suites strategically to maximize impact
2. Cover all your bases without compromising time and resources
3. Audit your QA strategy by asking yourself five critical questions
4. Fix gaps and bottlenecks in your testing processes by adopting agile principles

Presenters:

Cambrie Marks (LinkedIn profile) is a Implementation Specialist with a demonstrated history of providing premium services and creative solutions to clients.

Jeff Pineda (LinkedIn profile) is an avid agile supporter and a CSM with a decade’s worth of experience working in quality assurance, project management, and production, mostly in the gaming space. Jeff has worked in the QA trenches, formed QA teams from the ground up for companies, and worked on day-to-day production operations for live titles while still managing teams. Jeff is passionate about challenging QA preconceptions determining how it could be done better and more efficiently, evangelizing agile principles and showing how powerful and adaptive they can be instead of just being catchy buzzwords. Jeff also has extensive experience with JIRA and Confluence.

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Developing With Quality In Mind:
A Blueprint To Power Up Your QA Strategy

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Live Webinar August 16th, 2018 – 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0.5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

For nearly ten years, RBCS has run a highly successful free webinar series, with almost 50,000 registrations from around the world.

In 2017, Rex Black introduced a short format webinar into the mix, the One Key Idea series that focus on delivering an intense shot of practical knowledge in a short package.

Now, in 2018, Rex continues to innovate. Rex is adding the Two Points of View at Two series to their monthly webinar rotation.  In each of these sessions, Rex will talk with another software luminary about topics of mutual interest, where the two have some different views.

After their talk, Rex will open the floor to questions. In 30 minutes, you’ll get powerful insights on important topics in software testing, software quality, and software engineering. Make it a point to join the conversation.

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 August 10th, 2018 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

Whether your project is agile or not, it is critical that you practice good requirement and/or user story management.

Requirements and user stories do not just exist by themselves. Instead, they are linked to other artifacts such as test cases and test sets, scenarios and/or acceptance criteria, code and design components, tasks, risks, and actions.

Requirements and user stories also change during the course of a project and over the lifecycle of an application.

Some requirements or user stories originate from user requests, some evolve from bug reports or issues, and some are even enhancements to existing functionalities. A good requirement/user story management tool must support all these aspects of features.

This webinar will demonstrate how the requirement / user story component of Rommana ALM supports all these aspects and more.

The intent is to help you understand true requirement and user story management so that you can make an informed decision regarding tool selection and tool adoption.

If you are already using a tool to manage your requirements and/or user stories, this webinar should help you customize your tool to support all these aspects.

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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Effective Requirement Management
For Project & Team Success Using Rommana ALM

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Live Webinar August 7th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

With the explosion of DevOps and a rise in app abandonment, today’s testing teams are under more pressure than ever to keep up with speed and quality expectations of a completely digital organization.

Now, testers are not only responsible for identifying bugs in an app, but also the speed at which you can deploy and, more importantly, the perception end users have of your product.

1. The good news: DevOps will only get faster.
2. The bad news:   DevOps​ will only get faster​.

That said, do you want testers drained from trying to keep pace with a DevOps methodology that doesn’t provide them the tools to excel?

How an organization prepares for this transformation will define the future of quality to their brand and company. AI and ML is only as good as the real people behind it. Only the most prepared organizations can harness the unfair quality advantages provided by AI and ML.

• Where does AI and ML go from here?
• Job displacement or job enablement?
• Human intuition or human interference?

The answer lies in management’s philosophy on the value of human capital.

In this web seminar you’ll hear merits from both arguments but be forced to make the decision yourself.

Learn:

1. What the future holds for AI in testing
2. If testers should fear job displacement
3. How to enable testers with AI
4. Tools for the future of test automation

Presenters:

Joe Colantonio (LinkedIn profile) Founder of Test Talks Podcast & Guild Conferences Author, speaker, and test automation architect at a Fortune 100 company

Mush Honda (LinkedIn profile) VP of Testing at KMS Technology Former Nexidia, E&Y, and Majeco industry leader with over 15 years of experience

Frank Moyer (LinkedIn profile) CTO at Kobiton Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgia Tech’s ATDC and former President/CEO of GeoIQ

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence & Testing:
Will You Have a Job Tomorrow?

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