Live Webinar – September 26th 2016, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU Free
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

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

Frequent, continuous automated testing is key to successful agile development. But many teams resist fully automated testing, believing their testers need to have programming expertise in order to build automated tests.

While that may have been true at one time, recent advances have made it easier to implement automated testing without coding skills.

Join test automation expert Marc Balcer for an exploration of the different kinds of automation tools and techniques.

Learn how to create a strategy for implementing automation, tips for selecting the appropriate tools, and how to design applications for productive test 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

Click to register for:
Successful Test Automation Without Coding

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Live Webinar September 8th, 2016 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

In an enterprise mobile application development scenario, typically you have the client application, which runs on the phone and often, will be built using new technology.

Regardless of the latest technology your mobile applications may be using, they are often dependent on third party, legacy or enterprise systems which the business has spent years integrating.

The real challenge is: how do you test your applications with these legacy dependencies in mind?

Learn:

• How service virtualization technology helps eliminate the waiting and late stage integration and testing issues
• Enable easy creation of virtual services of any dependent components that may be sitting in the backend legacy or third party systems
• See how service virtualization compress software development lifecycle by simulating the middleware and backend systems

Presenter:  Mirek Novotny (LinkedIn profile) Sr Product Manager Service Virtualization, HP Software.  HP SV launched 4 years ago and Mirek continues managing its vision, strategy and roadmap as well as overall delivery lifecycle.  Prior to joining HP, Mirek was a member of HP Software EMEA CTO Office where he led SOA and BTO Cloud initiatives for EMEA. Mirek joined HP from Mercury Interactive and Systinet where he was responsible for product management and delivery of world class SOA products.

Click to register for:
Supercharging Mobile Performance
With Service Virtualization

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Live Webinar September 7th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Some people use the terms “verification” and “validation” interchangeably, but there are significant differences between them.

Some people disparage verification, or deny that it’s even involved in testing.

However, you can’t adequately build confidence and reduce risk in the software you test without using the proper mix of both.

In this webinar, Rex will clarify the meaning of these two terms, give examples, and explain why both are essential to proper software 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:
Verification and Validation:
What’s the Difference & Why Both Matter

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Live Webinar August 31st, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: StickyMinds/Techwell

Today’s users are unforgiving when it comes to performance expectations, often refusing to reuse a service after hitting performance roadblocks.

When slowdowns occur during the holiday season—when customer demands are at their peak—the business impact can be disastrous.

Join Micro Focus to learn how to eliminate your mobile and web performance issues and ensure a quality user experience under the most stressful user demands.

Learn the 3 most critical performance-optimization practices:

• Understanding true user performance experience across devices and regions
• Confirming the effectiveness of your responsive web strategies
• Ensuring back office/order processing systems will scale with the increased web/mobile demand

Hear a real-world example of how one large retailer eliminated holiday shopping traffic risks and had a successful holiday shopping season.

Bonus offer: Web seminar registrants are invited to participate in a complimentary, personalized performance assessment on any website they choose to see how it is currently performing. Registrants also receive free credits toward cloud-based performance testing.

Unable to attend the live event? Just reserve your seat now, and we will send you instructions on how to watch it at your convenience once the archive launches.

Click to register for:
Web & Mobile Performance Testing Strategies
To Beat The Holiday Rush

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Live Webinar – August 23rd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Whether for holiday readiness, specific events, or general performance, many organizations struggle to create accurate testing plans.

Why?

Because they lack visibility into exactly how their customers behave.

In t his webinar Dan Bartow (LinkedIn profile) Principal Product Designer, SOASTA & Lauren Younger (LinkedIn profile) Director of Product Management, SOASTA will explore the details of how test plans are typically created and how they can be drastically enhanced — and even automated — by using actual user behavior data to ensure accuracy and efficacy.

Learn about:

• Current trends in performance testing
• Reasons why load testing in production is not optional for most organizations
• How to use Real User Monitoring (RUM) data to enhance test plans
• How leading edge data science technologies can drastically reduce costs for expensive load tests and increase revenues by discovering unexpected user behavior
• How retail organizations use intelligent testing for holiday readiness and other key events

Your takeaway from this webinar will be actionable answers to the question:

• What should I test, and how should I test it?

The SOASTA Digital Performance Monitoring platform enables the seamless convergence of data, analysis, planning, and reporting. The result: the most accurate performance testing models in the world.

Through deep analysis of Real User Monitoring (RUM) data — such as user paths, user bounce rates, user think time, user geography, third party analytics, and peak analysis (including specific days, times, and pages) — organizations are now able to generate automated test reports that tell them what to test, when to test, where to test, and how (to what load) to test.

Click to register for:
Welcome To The Intelligent Testing Revolution!

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Live Webinar August 25th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar August 25th 2016 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing:

1. Irrelevance/redundancy
2. Ignorance of relevant skills or facts
3. Obstructionism
4. Adversarialism
5. Nit-picking
6. Blindness to project/organizational priorities
7. Last-moment-ism

Are you your own worst enemy?

You might recognize your own behaviors, or behaviors of others on your test team. Rex will discuss these seven sins and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Rex gives examples of these behaviors through case studies, and tells you how to stop the behaviors and solve the problems those behaviors have created. For sinners and non-sinners alike, Rex offers ideas on how to become a testing saint.

Join Rex and discuss these seven deadly sins.

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:
The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of:
The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

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