Past Events

Automation Zero to Hero in Two Weeks

6:15PM - 7:30PM EST Online Event (ZOOM)

Critical Thinking

6:00PM EST Online Event (ZOOM)

In his autobiography, Bach wrote that he worked as a software testing manager for Apple and Borland after dropping out of high school. He also programmed Apple II and Commodore 64 ports of various titles for Spinnaker Software.

Since 1999, he has worked as independent consultant based in Eastsound, Washington. As a witness in the 2001 United States v. Microsoft Corp. antitrust case, Bach testified that Microsoft could indeed unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows.

Bach is a proponent of exploratory testing and the context-driven school of software testing and is credited with developing session-based testing. He was a member of the board of directors of the Association for Software Testing. Lessons Learned in Software Testing, a book he co-authored, has been cited over 130 times according to Google Scholar, and several of his articles have been cited dozens of times including his work on heuristics for testing and on the Capability Maturity Model. He has written numerous articles for Computer.

He is an advisor to the Lifeboat Foundation as

AI-Augmented Testing: How Generative AI and Prompt Engineering Turn Testers into Superheroes, Not Replace Them

6:15PM-7:30PM EST Online Event - ZOOM

Join Jonathon Wright as he discusses AI-Automated Testing.

AI-Augmented Testing leverages Generative AI and prompt engineering to enhance the capabilities of testers rather than replace them. This approach transforms the testing process by using AI to assist in creating comprehensive test cases and identifying bugs in unexpected places. The goal is to elevate testers from routine task executors to strategic problem solvers, allowing them to focus on more complex and creative aspects of testing.

Generative AI acts as a reliable companion, helping testers work smarter and faster. By automating repetitive tasks, AI enables testers to concentrate on designing unique test scenarios, exploring edge cases

Boosting Developer Productivity Through Shifting Left Observability

6:15PM-7:30PM EST Online Event - ZOOM

Join Eran Kinsbruner as he discusses boosting developer productivity.

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, ensuring high-quality software and minimizing production issues are paramount concerns for organizations. One emerging practice that holds significant promise in achieving these goals is shifting left observability. This online seminar explores the concept of live debugging, emphasizes the importance of shifting it left to developers, and highlights how this practice contributes to improved software quality and reduced P1 production issues.

Live debugging, also known as runtime debugging, is a dynamic approach to identifying and resolving issues within a software application while it is running. Unlike traditional debugging methods that rely on static

New Model for Testing

6:15PM-7:30PM EST Online Event - ZOOM

Join Paul Gerrard as he discusses his New Model for Testing.

The hype surrounding AI and machine learning is at its peak. ChatGPT, launched publicly at the end of 2022, now has 180m subscribers and dominates the airwaves, but there are now hundreds of publicly available large-language models (LLMs) and open-source AI tools available for you to experiment with.

Companies are scrambling to incorporate AI into their software products - Microsoft Copilot is the AI component in 365 used by 400m users. Test tool vendors are no exception. Every test tool now seems to have AI added in some form. Vendors have found opportunities to use AI - mostly LLMs - to introduce, enhance or speed up various features in their products.

These enhancements are mostly ad-hoc or opportunistic improvements to, cynically, 'catch the wave.' There are some speculative, lifecycle, visionary or proof-of-concept products emerging, but there is no guarantee they will become the standard. There is no overall vision of what AI could do for test engineers.

Paul has always argued that the users of testing products should be setting the agenda for test tool vendors, or we will get what vendors can build not what we need.

He uses his New Model for Testing - a model of tester thought processes - to set out functional areas that best support our thinking. If AI is to be an intelligent and productive assistant, it needs to be in tune with how we approach the problem of test

Redefining Testing in the Cloud and AI Era

6:15PM-7:15PM EST Online Event - ZOOM

• Are one or more of these your challenges or interest?
• Wondering how to leverage the power of AI to enhance your software testing efforts?
• Do you face a fragmented test management process?
• Are inefficiencies in software delivery due to a lack of continuous testing holding you back?
• Are you struggling with poor reporting that hampers decision-making?
• Do product launch delays stem from unoptimized testing processes?
• Are bugs and flaky tests posing challenges to your development cycle?
• Are you unsure if you are tracking the right metrics for effective testing?
• Join us to discover how DigyCloud can help!

Welcome to DigyCloud, an innovative platform designed to transform how we approach testing in the cloud era. With 40+ integrations across project management, test management, code repositories, testing tools, and more, DigyCloud eliminates the complexity of disparate frameworks and tools in silos. It seamlessly transitions you to platform engineering in testing on the cloud, using AI to cluster your data and optimize efficiency.

Key Benefits:

• Scale: Scale your automation without worrying about integration, pipeline creation or reporting.
• Accelerate: Accelerate your testing response with continuous guard rail of targeted tests for each code check-in
• Analyze: Get to root cause in half of the time and increase efficiency.
• Report: Report all of quality in the enterprise into a single Pane
• AI Adoption: Use AI to analyze, communicate and control testing, powered by DigyAI and DigyCloud Data warehouse.

Simplify Testing. Amplify Results - Know how clients around the globe are pivoting their QE with universal cloud of testing - DigyCloud.

A QA/Test Framework for MLOps

6:30PM - 7:30PM EST River Grove CC, Susan Burt Arts Studio | 5800 River Grove Ave, Mississauga, ON L5M 4R8 | FREE PARKING

Join Rob Virdee, Vice President of TASSQ VP as he discusses and showcases how to application of a QA concepts to Machine Learning models and MLOps pipelines.

Topics will include:

• What to consider for AI/ML- vs traditional Software- testing
• The challenges of trying to test ML models.
• What core QA practices are applicable?
• Pre- and post- Train testing
• Visualizing the MLOps QA workflow

Why you should attend:

Not sure how to guide your Data Science

Digital Accessibility from a Quality Assurance Perspective

6:15 PM EST Online Event - ZOOM

Join Jason Drake, Lead Accessibility Tester at CTG Canada, for a webinar journey into the realm of digital accessibility from a quality assurance (QA) perspective. With a focus on ensuring that digital products are usable by individuals with disabilities, this session explores the pivotal role QA plays in achieving, maintaining, and improving high levels of accessibility for websites and mobile apps.

Topics include:

• Understanding Accessibility Requirements as Acceptance Criteria.
• Investing in Accessibility Skills & Knowledge.
• Integrating Accessibility into the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Strategies for Maintaining & Improving Accessibility.

Why is it highly necessary to attend this webinar?

INCLUSION:
16% of the adult population - approximately 6 million Canadians - live with cognitive, motor, visual, or auditory disabilities. People with disabilities do not have the same ease of navigating an application or website. The goal of our testing expert is to ensure that the product is accessible and usable by all of your customers, including those with disabilities.

MANDATORY:

• Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) : Private or non-profit organizations with more than 50 employees and all public sector organizations must make their website and web content compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA by January 1, 2021.
• The federal law in Canada is called the ACA, or Accessible Canada Act, and it requires WCAG 2.1 AA compliance for federal government entities and sectors overseen or controlled by the federal government.

BUSINESS:
Increase the number of users, better referencing (SEO) (the algorithm takes this criterion into account to increase the SEO of a site), site and app optimization, higher conversion rate.

About CTG:
CTG accelerates digital transformation with cutting-edge Quality As

The Role of QA in Design Thinking

6:15PM EST Online Event - ZOOM

How can integrating Quality Assurance (QA) within the Design Thinking process enhance the development of digital products and ensure they are not only innovative but also reliable, user-friendly, and market

Futureproofing Testing

6:15PM EST Online Event - ZOOM

Do Large Language Models represent the end of testing as we know it? Are testers doomed to extinction? Or is ChatGPT this year's Watson, non-fungible tokens, or Metaverse?

Fear not, Dear Testers: testing is not going away. As long as there is new technology, there will be product risk that leads to business risk. Responsible organizations will want to know about problems that matter before it's too late.

Discovering those problems requires far more than providing input to a product and demonstrating that it produces some desirable output. Avoiding unpleasant surprises requires skilled, technically and socially competent investigators, performing experiments to reveal truths about software products and their problems.

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