Live Webinar – June 9th 2017, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
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.

Breaking The Barriers Between Dev & Ops

DevOps aims to break the barriers between Dev and Ops. This also necessitates breaking the barriers between Dev, Test and Ops.

Testing operations undergo a major change in a DevOps culture. Therefore, everything changes for testing.

• The tester’s skillset,
• Methods,
• The way they test,
• When they test and
• The way they plan and execute.

DevOps brings testing into the mainstream of development processes, and avoids the problems created by having “big-bang” testing left to the end of the cycle, such as release delays, and quality issues.

In this session, Alan Koch (LinkedIn profile) & Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) will give you a brief overview of DevOps and the impact on Software Testers.

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Intro To DevOps For Testers

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Live Webinar June 1st, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

A critical challenge in transitioning to continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) is creating a flexible testing environment that moves the focus from test support teams to IT infrastructure, DevOps, and automation tools.

Legacy tools meant to manually run load tests won’t cut it alone—you need a solution to automate and scale your testing process.

Join this web seminar to learn how a multi-billion dollar financial organization created a net savings of more than 500 man hours of testing and scripting per year using agile performance testing with CI/CD and application performance management (APM).

Gain new insights into how shifting your testing focus can improve development speed, costs, and quality.

Learn:

• The importance of automation and continuous load testing
• How to integrate CI/CD into your test environment
• How APM enables load testing to be more efficient

Presenter: Troy Presley Sr. (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Engineer Apica brings 10+ years of experience in synthetic technical project management. He has a proven ability to communicate with both management and technical teams, and successfully drive projects from strategy to development and implementation.

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How Agile Performance Testing Helps Automate & Scale
Test Processes

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Live Webinar May 30th, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Developing a QA strategy that scales to meet the changing needs of a growing organization is a major challenge. Traditional testing techniques can’t keep up with a fast-paced development cadence.

For many of these growing software companies, determining whether a product or feature is ready to ship is difficult, and there is no one-size-fits-all strategy.

Join this web seminar to discover how testing needs change as a company grows, and how your team can adapt its QA strategy to an agile approach that fits.

Learn the key factors expanding software companies must consider to optimize their QA strategy for both speed and quality.

You will learn how to:

1. Find the balance between deployment speed and code quality
2. Determine the scope of testing that is appropriate for your organization
3. Develop a forward-thinking QA strategy that scales with your team

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Create An Agile QA Strategy That Scales
With Your Testing Team

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Live Webinar May 24th, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

QA has undergone a revolution over the past ten years due to automated testing and more appreciation of QA by developers.

But building a successful QA team and running it effectively requires a critical understanding of team capabilities and behaviors.

Join this web seminar to learn a ten-point framework for successfully executing QA, including how to manage software testing, using test automation, how to measure QA, and evaluating the strength of your QA leadership.

Learn:

• Practices and considerations for managing tests
• Test automation tips and why experience with automation matters
• The right questions to ask in order to hire top QA leadership talent
• How to measure the overall performance of a QA organization

Presenter: Chris Valas (LinkedIn profile) Sr Director Program Management & User Experience Logi Analytics, has 30+ years’ experience when it comes to leadership of every aspect of the software development lifecycle. Throughout his expansive career, he has headed program management, user experience teams, and multiple development teams to bring many successful products to market.

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A 10-Point Framework
For Building A World-Class QA Team

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Live Webinar May 16th 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar May 16th 2017 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

If you are testing a simple mobile app, you may find it relatively easy to find representative test data. However, what if you are testing enterprise scale applications?

In the enterprise data center, one hundred or more applications of various sizes, comp lexity, and criticality co-exist, operating on various data repositories, in some cases shared data repositories.

In some cases, disparate data repositories hold related data, and the ability to test integration across applications that access these data sets is critical.

In this webinar, Rex Black will talk about the challenges facing his clients as they deal with these testing problems.

You’ll go away with a better understanding of the nature of the challenges, as well as ideas on how to handle them, grounded in lessons Rex has learned in over 30 years of software engineering and 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

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of:
Enterprise Challenges Of Test Data

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of:
Enterprise Challenges Of Test Data

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Live Webinar May 17th, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Our mobile world demands better, faster, and more innovative mobile experiences. For developers, testers, and QA, the pressure is on to deliver mobile apps with continuous speed and quality to stay competitive.

However, that’s no easy task. How do you ensure your team delivers on time while maintaining the quality standards users demand?

Join this web seminar to learn five steps to launching a continuous delivery strategy that will help your team release updates faster than ever.

Learn:

• How agile app development and automated testing enable continuous delivery
• Major benefits of testing on real devices in a device cloud
• Key strategies for incorporating manual and automated testing
• Smart ways to apply continuous delivery through real-world examples

Presenter: Jamie Moore, (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Solution Architect Mobile Labs has 20+  years of experience in the software and testing industry. Prior to joining Mobile Labs, Jamie worked at Mercury Interactive and IBM Rational as a technical director. In addition to software testing, Jamie has extensive knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle. Jamie is passionate about helping QA & development teams transform the way they build and test software.

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5 Steps To Launch Continuous Delivery For Mobile

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