Past Events

Applying AI to static code analysis and unit testing

6:00 p.m. Online Event - Zoom

Speaker: Igor Kirilenko, Parasoft VP of Development

It’s a well-known fact you can achieve high software quality by starting your quality efforts early in the development lifecycle, aka “shift-left”. Still, it’s all too common for software to be promoted to QA environments with many easily preventable defects,  often for alleged reasons such as “lack of time” or “it’s not our job to do QA”.

After thoroughly studying the issue, and its root causes, Parasoft applied carefully chosen algorithms and machine learning to maximize effective static code analysis, based on dynamically learned behaviour from each project team. We then addressed the perennial problem of low code coverage for unit tests, using AI to guide dev/QA professionals as they create effective and open source unit test code for their b

Mobile Testing – Market Update

6:15 p.m. Online Event - Zoom

Due to the current situation with Coronavirus the TASSQ Board has decided to continue with monthly free online events until further notice, in support of the QA community!

Speaker: Joe Larizza

Mobile testing is a challenging field which requires a well thought out plan to achieve desired results.  This presentation will focus on helping you to build a strategy to deliver a high quality testing service. Whether you are an independent contractor or work for small or large size enterprises, this presentation will help you discover the key ingredients for successful testing results. You will also  gain

Creating a Quality Playbook

6:15 p.m. Online Event - Zoom

Due to the current situation with Coronavirus the TASSQ Board has decided to continue with monthly free online events until further notice, in support of the QA community!

Speaker: Dawn Jardine

Want to improve quality processes across your project delivery teams, standardize best practices, reduce ramp-up time, and make your QA team more autonomous?

Create a Quality playbook.

A playbook contains all the pieces and parts that make up our go-to approach for getting things done. The playbook provides step-by-step quality guidelines and actions, along with practical templates and examples from prior projects that can be adopted on future projects. When there are successful ways of working that bring proven results, creating a "how to" playbook can provide a guide for delivery teams that can be used, adapted and improved upon with each project.

In this presentation, we'll talk about what a Quality playbook is, how to create one, how to implement, as well as introduce you to better practice

Avoiding common pitfalls while implementing BDD

6:15 p.m. GoToMeeting

Due to the current situation with Coronavirus the TASSQ Board has decided to continue with monthly free online events until further notice, in support of the QA community!

Speaker: Bernd Bornhausen

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is a very powerful tool when implemented correctly; if not, it becomes a nightmare.
Organizations are driven by the buzz words around BDD: shift-left, test-driven, code reuse, clarity, automation; to name just a few. While these are some of the benefits of BDD, they can only be realized when implementing BDD correctly; and that means organizations have to not only understand what BDD is, and what it is not, but they also have to plan properly.

In this talk, Bernd Bornhausen will describe some of the common pitfalls an organization can encounter while implementing BDD. These can be enc

The Foundational Change Toolkit for Quality Professionals

6:15 p.m. Go To Meeting Conference

Due to the current situation with Coronavirus the TASSQ Board has decided to continue with monthly free online events until further notice, in support of the QA community!

Event Speaker: Peter de Jager

Every manager involved with Quality, regardless of industry sector, will agree on the validity of this simple statement: “Quality is an ongoing process. There’s no final destination where we can stop and rest on our laurels.”

This statement comes with a hidden imperative: Constantly increasing Quality requires Constant Change.

This is evident in the overlapping S-Curves in Maturity models. We reach Quality limits within existing approaches and must shift to new process to achieve greater levels of quality.

Each process shift requires a Change to processes that allowed us to achieve existing Quality levels.

This means that while much of Quality Assurance is about making sure processes become part of the Culture, there’s a critical requirement for bringing Change about, sometimes having to disrupt processes and cultures that have resulted in huge gains with respect to Quality. In these situations, Machiavelli’s quote always comes to mind;

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

There are good reasons for the popularity of this quote, changing what’s working, in order to work better… is difficult.

This webinar will address two topics:

1. The Virginia Satir Change Process – with attention paid to the inevitable connection to Maturity Models.

2. A Template for communicating any type of Change.

Who should attend? : Anyone and everyone mandated to make things better.

Takeaways: The additions to their Quality Assurance Toolkit they will take away?

1. An understanding of a Change Process Model that explains WHERE resistance originates, and the different phases involved in accepting a Change – whether it is externally imposed, or internally demanded.

2. A Communications framework supported by the Change Model, that focuses o

Teaching Testing to Programmers. What Sticks, And What Slides Off? A Journey from Teflon To Velcro.

6:15 p.m. GoToMeeting

Due to the current situation with Coronavirus the TASSQ Board has decided to continue with monthly free online events until further notice, in support of the QA community!

Guest Speakers

Robert Sabourin – AmiBug.Com, Inc. and McGill University

Mónica Wodzislawski – Centro de Ensayos de Software (Software Testing Center), Uruguay and Universidad de la República, (University of the Republic), Uruguay

There is a lot of interest in teaching programming skills to testers, but Rob and Mónica suggest that it is even more important to teach testing skills to programmers. Corporate initiatives to “shift left” and Agile “test-driven” development approaches are only effective if a skilled programmer is also a skilled tester.

Agile training emphasizes soft skills and collaboration between team members with diverse skills. While appreciating such training, Rob and Mónica think that great testing does not naturally follow from team-building exercises; pragmatic hard skills such as programming, test design, troubleshooting and debugging must be taught.

In this presentation, Rob and Mónica will discuss two phenomena observed in thei

AGILE PRACTICES AND TESTING: The Art & Science of Testing the Unknown.

6:15 p.m. GoToMeeting

Due to the current situation with Coronavirus the TASSQ Board has decided to continue with monthly free online events until December 2020, in support of the QA community!

Guest Speaker: Ardita Karaj, Agile Coach and Trainer.

Testing what we know, or have a clear understanding of, is relatively straight forward, as is making decisions based on the expected result. But today’s world is presenting us with the Unknown and the Ambiguous, which can only be approached by hypothesizing and experimenting - a lot! This requires intentional thinking, and a different strategy to observe in context.

This session will uncover how testers are helping their teams and product owners, by basing their testing on the science behind creating hypotheses and running experiments. A tes

RPA, AI and Automation Testing

6:15 p.m. GoToMeeting

***September 22 Update: Registrations are closed - EVENT IS SOLD OUT!!!***

Due to the current situation with Coronavirus the TASSQ Board has decided to continue with monthly free online events until December 2020, in support of the QA community!

Speaker: Jaideep Kala, RPA/AI Evangelist, Thought Leader, Speaker, Trainer and Principal at Onbotix Services

According to the Anatomy of Work Index Report, conducted recently among more than 10,000 people around the world by Asana, the team-based work management platform provider, the average knowledge worker spends about 60 per cent of their time on mundane duties that add little real value. Most of these activities are rule based, time intensive and repetitive. Humans are not particularly good at performing such activities. What if all these could be hived off to a software robot?. This would allow workers to focus on value-added tasks and become more productive, energized, and motivated.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the technology that accomplishes this. Increasingly, we are seeing developments in AI such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) making these robots become more intelligent and complex. Testing and implementing them requires a new approach, that is more agile and automated itself.

This presentation will look at all three aspects of robot development: RPA for building, Artificial Intelligence for making it more intelligent, and Automation Testing. The goal is stable and resilient robots. The speaker will discuss vendo

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

ISTQB -- CERTIFICATIONS AND MORE

6:15pm GoToMeeting

Due to the current situation with Coronavirus and need for social distancing, the TASSQ board has decided, to continue sharing knowledge and support the QA community, to make the June 23 conference a free online event!

Speaker: Gary Mogyorodi

Come to learn about the ISTQB Certification scheme and the new certifications being offered by the ISTQB.  Gary will discuss the history of the Canadian Software Testing Board (CSTB) since its inception in 2007.  He will also be talking about the additional opportunities that are available to testers who are interested in being part of the ISTQB Working Groups.

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