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28 January, 2020

Verification, Validation and Certification of Embedded Software

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

Speaker: Dr. Akramul Azim, Assistant Professor in software engineering at Ontario Tech University

We want embedded software to be verifiable. However, if all the interactions of the software with its associated system are not known, we may not be able to provide evidence of predictable and deterministic system behavior. The evidence is crucial for any safety-critical functionality, such as autonomous driving. The behavior of a system represents not only functionality but also architectural and execution properties such as resource consumption and timing. Non-determinism might arise for unpredictable input or output, which makes a system uncontrollable.

Automated verification is useful for verifying properties, even for large programs. However, validating complex functions such as embedded machine learning algorithms often tend to be difficult because of the large software size of the current embedded system (size can be measured in lines of code, number of system inputs and outputs, and/or number of classes/modules). The code size also constrains the functional safety certification process, such as IEC 61508 (generic), ISO 26262 (automotive), and IEC 62304 (medical). This talk will cover some guidelines to test software systems ranging from automotive to medical device software to accelerate the functional safety certification process.

Agenda

  • 5:30pm-6pm: Welcoming and Networking
  • 6pm-7pm: Conference
  • 7pm-7:30pm: Discussion and Networking
  • 7:30pm:

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26 November, 2019

Cybersecurity and privacy trends and its impact to the Canadian market

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

Speaker: Carlos Chalico

Based on cybersecurity and privacy studies prepared international consultants, we will navigate through the trends on how organizations around the world are responding to these challenges to understand as well how the Canadian market is being affected by this and how it is reacting to it.

Agenda

  • 5:30pm-6pm: Welcoming and Networking
  • 6pm-7pm: Conference
  • 7pm-7:30pm: Discussion and Networking
  • 7:30pm:

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29 October, 2019

The Power of Design Sprints for Product Team

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

Speakers: Leah Oliveira and Carlos Oliveira

Today, product teams are under pressure to be more creative, innovative and delight customers sooner, but lack the knowledge and skills to know where to start. Agile product teams have frameworks and methods for rapid feedback, but generally, lack real data from real users to make good business decisions. As product release cycles run longer and longer, team members lose enthusiasm and focus on the customer.

As a tool, Design Sprints offer Agile teams an effective and transformative formula for testing ideas with real people, whether you’re on a small team at a start-up, scale-up, or inside a large portfolio of projects at an enterprise organization. Within five days, teams move from idea to prototyping/testing, to better business decisions, ultimately saving time, effort, and energy over the long-run. Join Leah Oliveira and Carlos Oliveira, co-founders of AdaptiveX, as they introduce both the business side (Leah) and technology side (Carlos) of design sprints for product teams, a process for rapid experimentation and learning that helps teams solve big problems and test new ideas in less than five days.

Originally created by three partners at Google Ventures, the process has been proven at hundreds of companies. Both Leah and Carlos have been involved in many organizational transformations and have run dozens of design sprints for the Fortune 500, witnessing how product teams can harness the power of design sprints to focus their efforts and deliver more appropriate solutions to market sooner.

Agenda

  • 5:30pm-6pm: Welcoming and Networking
  • 6pm-7pm: Conference
  • 7pm-7:30pm: Discussion and Networking
  • 7:30pm:

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04 October, 2019

STARCANADA—SOFTWARE TESTING AND REVIEW

7:30AM Location: Hyatt Regency Toronto 370 King Street West Toronto, ON, Canada M5V 1J9

Registration Note: please use the following link: https://well.tc/5oi. Explore the conference and all that STARCANADA  (https://well.tc/5oi3) has to offer. Plus, don’t forget that TASSQ email subscribers will also receive this exclusive discount: 25% off with promo code TASSQ19 

Date: October 20-25, 2019

Keynotes
-A Framework for the Whole Team to Own Quality by Dr. Jess Ingrasselino

-The Logic of Verification by Michael Bolton

-The Lazy Student’s Guide to Test Automation by Chris Loder

-and more

Tutorials

-Selenium Test Automation: From the Ground Up (full-day)

-Quality and Testing Measures and Metrics (half-day)

-Integrating Automated Testing into DevOps (half-day)

-Test Design for Fully Automated Build Architecture (half-day)

- And more

Concurrent Sessions Topics

-Continuous Testing

-Automation

-API Testing

- Security Testing

-And more

Explore the conference and all that STARCANADA  (https://well.tc/5oi3) has to offer. Plus, don’t forget that TASSQ email subscribers will als

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24 September, 2019

President's Dinner - V2X (Vehicle to Everything) Communications

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

Speakers: Charles Finlay, Peter Watkins, Tony Hui, Ysni Semsedini

Moderator: Colin Dhillon

V2X (vehicle-to-everything) communications technology allows vehicles to directly communicate with each other, roadside infrastructure, and other road users to deliver an array of benefits in the form of road safety, traffic efficiency, smart mobility, environmental sustainability, and driver convenience.

In addition, V2X is also helping pave the way for fully autonomous driving through its unique non line-of-sight sensing capability which allows vehicles to detect potential hazards, traffic, and road conditions from longer distances and sooner than other in-vehicle sensors such as cameras, radar, and LiDAR. So who is involved in the V2X sandbox? The ecosystem includes cellular communications companies like Bell, Infrastructure technology companies like Siemens, Miovision and Electromega. Cybersecurity specialist providing a cloud of protection over this ecos

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25 June, 2019

Is Digital Transformation a Buzz Word or Is It a Business Evolution?

6:00PM The Albany Club, 91 King St E, Toronto, ON M5C 1G3

Speaker: Kyle Hulme

Important note for registration: Increased security requirements on the part of Paypal are causing a temporary disruption to our ability to process payments. We will inform you when payment processing is re-enabled.  We apologise for the inconvenience. In the meantime please register as indicated below:

- For TASSQ Members who wish to attend the presentation only, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tassq-june-meeting-presentation-only-member-tickets-63032251160

- For TASSQ Members who wish to attend the presentation and dinner, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tassq-june-meeting-dinner-member-tickets-63032084662

- For non-members who wish to attend the presentation only, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tassq-june-meeting-presentation-only-non-member-tickets-63032231100 

- For non-members who wish to attend the presentation and dinner, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tassq-june-2019-meeting-dinner-non-member-tickets-63031970320

The phrase Digital Transformation is being used to describe technology, change and innovation in every which way in today’s market. This presentation will attempt to filter through the overused phrase to carve out what “digital transformation is” and

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28 May, 2019

The need for cybersecurity in the 21st century

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

Presenters: Jeremy Critch and Pranav Mehndiratta

Important note for registration: Increased security requirements on the part of Paypal are causing a temporary disruption to our ability to process payments. We will inform you when payment processing is re-enabled.  We apologise for the inconvenience. In the meantime please register as indicated below:

- For TASSQ Members who wish to attend the presentation only, click on REGISTER below

- For TASSQ Members who wish to attend the presentation and dinner, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tassq-may-meeting-dinner-member-tickets-62027627303

- For non-members who wish to attend the presentation only, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tassq-may-meeting-presentation-only-tickets-62027408649

- For non-members who wish to attend the presentation and dinner, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tassq-may-meeting-dinner-non-member-tickets-62027567123

The 21st century has created an ever increasing and innovative society. Technology has made leaps and bounds, and will continue to do so moving forward. However, with technological inventions increasing, the opportunity for cyber threats also grows. Many organizations developing new tech remain unaware of the extent of damages that can be caused by a cyber attack. Some of these disruptions can easily be avoided by taking the time to have the right discussions around cyber security within an organization. By understanding what the attackers are after and how organizations are exposed, companies can begin to mitigate some of the risk they face from these threat actors.

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30 April, 2019

A Blockchain and AI Primer

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

Speakers: Eric Osuorah and Patrick . C. Egbunonu

Outline:

In this presentation, Eric will present an overview of Blockchain, along with benefits and challenges with this technology. In addition, he will highlight the various types of Blockchain, using practical applications and use cases to demonstrate blockchain technology. Patrick will then present a quick overview of Artificial Intelligence Read More

26 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

26 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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