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Testing in an Agile SDLC requires a balance between the User Perspective, the Developers’ needs for feedback and your Product Owners’ needs for clarity around the quality of the product. Based on the popular STPCon 2018 presentation “Walking the Agile Testing Tight Rope”, this workshop dives into a process for choosing test cases that will […]

This is a 3-Day Course. Beginning Sunday, March 31st through Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 The Foundation Level Test course, created by Rex Black, past President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), past President of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB) and co-author of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board Foundation Syllabus, is […]

This is a 3-Day Course. Beginning Sunday, March 31st through Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 The Foundation Level Test course, created by Rex Black, past President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), past President of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB) and co-author of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board Foundation Syllabus, is […]

This is a 3-Day Course. Beginning Sunday, March 31st through Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 The Foundation Level Test course, created by Rex Black, past President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), past President of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB) and co-author of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board Foundation Syllabus, is […]

Have you ever been in a situation where… A stakeholder comes to you/your QA team and says “We have about 2 hours before we push the new version of the app into production. Could you do some high-level acceptance tests and ensure our app is stable before we do it”. You have no idea where […]

How can one system test all the world’s apps? Mobile and Web. Jason shares learnings from applying AI techniques for doing just that. Learn how AI can help with the problems of identifying elements in applications, and the sequencing of test steps for regression testing. See how AI can measure qualitative aspects such as usability […]

Over the last several years, a set of ideas and activities have been dumped into a big bucket called “Agile software development”. Agile development has hit mainstream recognition. Yet there is often uncertainty and turmoil around what “Agile development” means, in theory and in practice, and the confusion affects Agile projects and the people in […]

Some bugs are obvious. Every test must have an expected, predicted result. Effective testing requires complete, clear, consistent, and unambiguous specifications. Repeated tests are fundamentally more valuable. Testers should never make assumptions. Experience is the best teacher. People shouldn’t argue about semantics. Test automation saves time for exploratory testing later on. If you’re a tester […]

People are adding “AI” to everything these days —but the big question is how to test it. We are already seeing AI products go awry. Engineers working on AI fear the little Frankenstein minds they created might make some bad decisions. Like traditional software, this new AI-based software needs to be tested. Jason shares techniques […]

Why do we test? What’s the point? We test to develop a comprehensive understanding of the product. We test to find problems that threaten the value of the product, or that threaten the on-time, successful completion of any kind of development work. We test to help the business, managers, and developers decide whether the product […]