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March, 2019
Why and How to adopt BDD in Software Development
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Rob Ashall
Over the past several years, many organizations have transitioned to agile development in order to accelerate delivery and get more timely feedback from the market. In these organizations, while development begins to move faster, QA will struggle to keep pace unless they integrate automated software testing practices into the development pipeline. Accelerating software development and ensuring software quality with automated continuous testing is a great achievement, but it’s all for naught if the software isn’t what your customers want or need.
Folks at this stage in their software development processes evolution are taking a close look at BDD (Behavior-Driven-Development) Read More
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February, 2019
Create an effective mobile testing strategy in an ever-evolving technical environment
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Johanna Castro
The performance of an app and website is tied to its ability to operate across various configurations. Each configuration acts like an individual layer the app must pass through before reaching the end user. The most important layers it must contend with are the operating system, the specific version of the operating system, smartphone model, and screen size. Each layer an app encounters can influence its performance and user experience.
Operating across a variety of configurations is essential for apps given the huge fragmentation of a diverse smartphone market in terms of models, operating systems, and more.
- Testing across multiple configurations
- Mobile testing to stay competitive
- The effects of Fragmentation
- Emulators/ Simulators / Real devices
- How to select the most relevant devices configurations
- Case : Iphone X and its impact on your digital products (Eg. Google map, Mc Donald's, Amazon, Spotify)
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January, 2019
Improving Testing of AI Systems with Grey-box Testing Technique
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Yury Makedonov
There are two main challenges to testing systems that incorporate elements of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The same input can trigger different responses while an AI system adapts to a new environment. It may also be challenging to understand what is the correct response.
Such behavior breaks one of the main principles of traditional testing – repeatability of execution of test cases. This is akin to shooting a moving target and not knowing whether you missed. Testers feel frustrated when their traditional approach can’t be used anymore and have no confidence in the outcome of their testing.
Yury Makedonov explains that to successfully test an AI system, you need to have direct access to the system’s state. Using an example of a simplified machine learning system with a few simple models of its internals Yury shows how to use the state of this system for effective testing and how to deal with test data, the most difficult part of AI
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November, 2018
Developing Agile Maturity. An Agile Coach’s Perspective
6:00pm The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Nico Gonzalez
Topic: Developing Agile Maturity. An Agile Coach’s Perspective
As Agile coaches we are empowered to transform organizations into becoming more efficient and to focus on value delivery. Correlating specific mindsets and behaviors to agile maturity allows us to focus on specific areas of impact and organize a custom coaching approach.
Agenda:
- Agile 101
- Agile Maturity Dimensions
- The Agile Maturity Model
- A Simple Lean Change Canvas
- Maturity Flow Using the Lean Change Canvas
- Case Study: Improving an Agile team’s QA process via the “Three Amigo” approach, Spec by Example and Cross functional teams.
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October, 2018
QA and Testing in a Blockchain World
6:00pm The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Kiran Vaidya
- What is Blockchain?
- Why the Hype?
- Types of Blockchain
- Blockchain ecosystem / technology stack basics
- How to identify a good blockchain use case
- Current trends in Blockchain
- QA/ Testing in a blockchain world
- Questions
Kiran Vaidya has a Deep understanding of Blockchain and cryptocurrency space. He has worked as a Product Owner, Consultant for Enterprises and an Educator for Blockchain implementations.
He has been leading complex Enterprise grade Digital Transformation initiatives for Canadian Banks as a Project Manager and Business Analyst.
Kiran is also a Public speaker and explains the tech behind cryptocurrencies in simple words to all types of audiences. He is on the Advisory board of Blockchain Canada and Transformation Worx.
Kiran is the author of education-focused blog on Blockchain exploring guides and case studies and has contributed to the Ethereum section for Enterprise Blockchain book by Manav Gupta.
Kiran is Scrum certified and holds multiple certifications in the blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
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October, 2018
STARCANADA—Software Testing and Review
7:30 a.m. Hyatt Regency Toronto, 370 King Street West Toronto, ON, Canada M5V 1J9
STARCANADA (October 14-19, 2018) is the premier Canadian software testing event, the sister conference to the most popular and longest-running events in the software industry, STAREAST and STARWEST.
Use exclusive member code TASSQ to save 25% off your registration fees by September 14 to increase your savings with early bird pricing.
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This year at STARCANADA there will be a heavy dose of agile testing topics, a focus on test automation, testing in DevOps, AI and Data Analytics, and so much more.
The program includes more the 50 learning sessions with 4 keynot
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September, 2018
President's Dinner and TASSQ 25th Anniversary
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
The President's dinner will be with a panel discussion about AI and Machine Learning, and how they can impact the world of Quality Assurance.
Patrick Egbunonu will act as our event moderator. Patrick is an Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Applied Researcher, Entrepreneur, Coach and Professor.
Dr. Jeremy Bradbury is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Science (Computer Science) at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) where he also leads the Software Quality Research Lab.
Shawn (Suresh) Chand P.Eng. , CEM®, Certified GBE™, is a Solutions Architect forJMP Solutions. He focuses on Machine Learning, Quality Control & Reliability of Enterprise Software Applications.
Kundan Joshi is the award-winning founder and CEO of TheAppLabb, a leading product innovation firm focused on strategy, design and development of transformative experiences with Apps, Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality.
Dr. Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University in Toronto, Canada.
Last but not least, 2018
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June, 2018
Accessibility - What is it, and why is it important?
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: David Best
Usability, Inclusion, Design!
The accessibility challenge is the deficit gap between the disability of the user and the system capabilities, and the goal is to bridge the accessibility gap, through inclusive design, that will create the best possible end-user experience.
Accessibility is a measurement of productivity not disability, and accessibility is a subset of Usability. Usability is concerned with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction through multiple means of representation, multiple means of expression, and multiple means of engagement. So, design is the bridge between information and understanding, built upon three pillars of security, performance, and accessibility.
If you do not understand the information then it is just noise, and if any one of the pillars is weak then people are put at risk. That is, cognitive considerations for visualization and the information interface design, are important for making products and services accessible and usable. The bridge design must conside
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June, 2018
Rapid Software Testing - three-day course June 4 - June 6, 2018
9:00am to 5:00pm The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Michael Bolton
You're a tester, a developer, a business analyst, or someone who manages them. No matter what kind of development model you're using Agile, DevOps, Lean, Scrum, or something more traditional and no matter what kind of business you're in; an established financial institution, big telecom, a medical device company, or a social media startup; the essential mission of testing is always the same. Managers, developers, and the other clients of testing have a central question: are there problems that threaten the on-time, successful completion of our task? Rapid Software Testing answers that question.
Rapid Software Testing (RST) is a complete testing methodology, designed for a world of barely sufficient resources, information, and time. It's is a mind-set and a skill-set focused on performing testing more quickly and less expensively while still completely fulfilling the mission of testing.The approach begins with developing personal skills and extends to the ultimate purpose of software testing: lighting the way of the project by evaluating the product for problems that threaten its value.
RST isn't just testing with a speed or sense of urgency; it's mission-focused testing that eliminates unnecessary work while assuring that necessary work gets done and important questions get answered. RST asks what testing can do to help lower cost, defends value, and speed the project as a whole in any development.
If you are an experienced tester, developer, business analyst, or manager, you'll find out how to reframe and articulate those intellectual processes of testing that you already practice intuitively. You'll discover how to model risk, how to design and describe your test coverage, and how to report problems and progress effectively. You'll learn how to talk about the product and your work clearly without resorting to unhelpful and misleading metrics. If you're a new tester, hands-on testing exercises will help you gain critical experience.
Although Michael lives in Toronto, this is the only public offering of Rapid Software Testing scheduled for Canada this year. Don't miss out on this rare opportunity!
Early Bird Price (Register by May 11)
Member before May 11: $1300
Non-member before May 11: $1350
Regular Price (Register after May 11)
Member after May 11: $1450
Non-Member after May 11: $1500
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May, 2018
Test Optimization Strategy by leveraging Model Based Testing and Scriptless Test Automation
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Joe Larizza
Model based testing (MBT) is a methodology and toolset designed to accelerate the creation of test scripts. The tools let users describe the system under test using process models which then automate the generation of test cases. With model based testing, experienced testing professionals with domain knowledge can reduce testing time for commercial software by as much as 30%.
MBT enables proper traceability of requirements to test cases as all requirements are converted to models & Test cases are generated automatically from those models.
MBT helps achieve maximum coverage with optimized minimum t
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