Live Webinar – March 1st 2018, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Automated testing using tools like Selenium or Ranorex is often presented as essential to good software development practice. But not all software applications or development projects are equally suited to automation.

Join ASPE’s automation testing expert Marc Balcer to discover how to determine if automation testing is right for you.

Learn whether automation is appropriate for your testing activities. Discover a simple rule for assessing whether automation is worth the time and effort. See what application characteristics can make automated testing easy or difficult.

This Webinar will Cover:

• What are the benefits and risks of test automation?
• How can you assess whether your software is ready for automation?
• How do you justify the investment in automation?
• When do you start seeing the benefits of automation?

Presenter: Marc J. Balcer (LinkedIn profile) Check out Marc’s books Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture and Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies

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Testing: Can I Automate? Should I Automate?

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Live Webinar February 28th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

With the growing pressure of digital disruption, enterprises find themselves facing the need for speed—and change. DevOps has emerged to enable this change and help speed up time to market and cross-team collaboration. As a result, DevOps has transformed how we test and our daily testing routines.

But what does this mean for manual testing? Have you made the decision to use it or lose it?

Join this web seminar to learn why the adoption of DevOps doesn’t mean the death of manual testing.

Learn:

1. What the future holds for the role of manual testing and UI test automation
2. How teams can achieve their required level of testing, without slowing down the acceleration initiative
3. What these changes mean for testing service providers

Can’t attend the live event?  No worries!
Register now and you will receive the recording.

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Reality Check:
The Role Of Manual Testing In DevOps

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Live Webinar February 26th 2018 – 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
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. In 2018, they are adding the Two Points of View at Two series to our monthly webinar rotation.

In each of these sessions, Rex Black will talk with another software luminary about topics of mutual interest, where the two have some different views, and then Rex opens the floor to questions.

In this initial session, Rex and Maaret will discuss tester-developer collaboration and the relationships between testers and developers.

1. How to approach developers for collaboration?
2. How do testers-developers ratios affect relationships?
3. What about people who move between tester and developer roles?

Join Rex and Maaret to hear their thoughts and ask your questions. as they will will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in your Agile projects.

Presenters:

Maaret Pyhäjärvi (LinkedIn profile) Feedback Fairy& Lead Quality Engineer F-Secure, actually identifies herself as an empirical technologist, tester and programmer, catalyst for improvement, author / speaker,  community facilitator and conference organizer. You can catch her latest thoughts on her blog.

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 with Maaret Pyhäjärvi

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Live Webinar December 12th, 2017, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

The mobile testing landscape is undergoing a transformation driven by faster execution time and persona skill matching.

Moving to continuous testing means every team member is responsible for quality, and this has led to the rise of new testing frameworks such as Espresso (focused on Android) and XCUITest (focused on iOS native apps testing).

Join this web seminar to learn the key differences between each framework (including Appium) and understand the benefits of XCUITest for iOS native apps testing.

You’ll also learn:

• The pros and cons of the three leading test frameworks for mobile apps­
• How to extend Appium, Espresso, and XCUITest using advanced reporting and automation at scale in the cloud
• The best methods for testing a native iOS 11 app on the latest iPhones (iPhone X and iPhone 8)

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Presenters:

Eran Kinsbruner (LinkedIn profile) Mobile Technical Evangelist Perfecto,  and author of The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality; & Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals: A Practical Guide From Industry Experts has extensive experience in the mobile testing market. Prior to Perfecto, he was the mobile testing CTO at Texas Instruments and project manager at Matrix, and he co-invented a test-exclusion automated mechanism for mobile J2ME testing at Sun Microsystems.

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3 Mobile App Testing Frameworks You Have To Know:
XCUITest‎, Espresso & Appium

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Live Webinar November 20th 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1  Hrs  1.0 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Live Webinar October 3rd 2017 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

You know that testing and quality is important, right?
Okay, prove it.

Exactly how much money do you think testing saves? Yes, that’s right saves.

Testing is often thought of as a regrettable cost center, something that must be funded to avoid some dimly-understood “bad stuff that could happen.”

In fact, software testing and other quality assurance activities save money. Typically, every dollar spent on testing saves eight dollars in the long run.

In this One Key Idea session, Rex will demonstrate the use of cost of quality, a technique known for over 50 years, using a real world case study and a spreadsheet you can download and use that same day.

Learn How Valuable Your Testers Are!

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:
Measuring The Value Of Testing Using Cost Of Quality

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