Past Events

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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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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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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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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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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Rapid Software Testing in Agile Contexts

6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario

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 them.

There have been some discussion points, such as Mike Cohn’s Agile Testing Pyramid and Marick, Crisipin and Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants, and many people have found them helpful. Yet James Bach and Michael Bolton, authors of Rapid Software Testing, still hear testers expressing a good deal of pain over the role of the tester and the structures of testing activity in Agile projects.

Is there really such a thing as “Agile Testing”? Building on what has gone before, Michael Bolton will look at the testing in “Agile Testing”. He'll use the lens of Rapid Software Testing—an agile (but not necessarily Agile) approach to testing that focuses on the mindset, skill set, and role of the tester. Michael will show how

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