Continuous Integration and How it Affects Testing
What is Continuous Integration (CI)? Why use it? How is testing affected by CI? Do you ever sit in meetings where developers talk about Continuous Integration and wonder what it is and why they’re talking about it? Then this webinar is for you! No understanding of CI necessary! We’ll talk about where the practice originated, how it has evolved over time and why it is such a major part of the competitive landscape of software development today. We’ll go over how tests can be integrated into CI; what new roles and responsibilities emerge for testers when CI is introduced; and how CI helps testers.
The Hidden Requirements: Exploring Emotions with Placebos
A placebo is designed and used primarily for psychological benefit. Things like sugar pills, elevator door close buttons, and office thermostats aim “to please”, rather than have any other, “real” effects. Now, consider a placebo in the context of software and testing. What if “pleasing” is the only intended and expected result? How can it be tested? What does a bug look like? And, do these ideas also apply to non-placebos that have other, “real” effects? In this workshop, we’ll explore placebos, nocebos, the placebo/nocebo response, illusion and locus of control, relativism, wants, needs, and expectations, and will connect it all to testing.
What is Agile Testing Anyway?
As more and more organizations transition to agile, many still do not understand how testing fits into agile teams. Does it simply mean placing a tester on every team? Or does it mean doing away with the role of testers? Pradeepa Narayanaswamy explains the importance of working in cross-functional teams that integrate development and testing. Pradeepa shares her insights into the keys of agile testing including understanding the agile testing mindset and goals. She discussed the responsibilities of a tester on an agile team and describes the diverse skill sets required on those teams.
Getting Started with Automation
An introduction to better practices and some of the common tool sets used when creating a comprehensive and scalable automated testing strategy. The purpose of this webinar is to lay the groundwork for a more comprehensive conversation with your team(s) about what overall strategy and architecture is appropriate for your products and customers both now and for the future.
Testing your Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
In an increasingly hypothesis-driven product development world, experimenting with Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) is considered as a pragmatic approach towards building the eventual “1.0” product. MVPs allow the team to systematically validate its key hypotheses, and create a basis for making critical product decisions based on evidence from the field. In this webinar, we shall examine the theory behind testing your MVP and describe a few of the popular testing methods. We shall also consider real-life examples to illustrate the point.
You Bet Your Life – Playing the Automation Tool Selection Game
In order to choose an appropriate tool to assist in testing, organizations need to consider three major facets of their testing ecosystem: strategy, audience, and technology.
Finding Efficiencies in Software Testing
Recorded: April 26th, 2017 Many of us feel like we never have enough time to fully test in a given sprint, cycle or other timeframe. We plan for the best case scenario, but, undoubtedly, something happens with our best-laid plans that cause us to feel like we “just...
40+ of the Best, Free Testing Tools in 60 Minutes
Yes, you heard that right… 40 of the best, FREE tools for testing software in just 60 minutes! Get your stopwatch ready! In this fast-paced session, you will be introduced to top testing tools every tester should know of so you can pull them from your toolbox when the time is right! You will learn about thinking and design tools, productivity tools, tools we use in testing, automation tools, technical tools, and management tools. Our focus is on the most useful tools to make your testing so much more powerful – that makes them power tools! Once I run through my list of top tools, we will crowdsource the rest to drive home our 40 in 60 so make sure to bring a few of your favorite free tools with you to share with other testers!
Managing Quality within Budget and Schedule Constraints: Successful and Unsuccessful Techniques
In this webinar, Rex will discuss ways that test professionals can help their project teams resolve that quandary. First, it’s important to recognize the trade-offs being made, and then test professionals can promote the five elements of making successful trade-offs: shared vision; disciplined management; quality in, and bugs out, throughout; focused testing; and, sending the right message. Rex will illustrate these five elements with a variety of case studies and examples.
Measuring Confidence Along the Dimensions of Test Coverage
When I talk to the senior project and product stakeholders outside of test teams, confidence in the system—especially, confidence that the system will have a sufficient level of quality—is one benefit they want from a test team involved in system and system...
Test Management and Quality Management
You will leave this session ready to provide clear leadership in test management and quality management and to help your organization achieve successful testing and quality.