Past Events

Risk Based Testing

6PM EST Online Event - Zoom

Does Software Testing regularly hold things up? In this talk, Johnston Harris will show how Automatic Risk Based Testing helps QA Teams alleviate common pain points, such as Slow Test Cycles, Flaky Tests, Lengthy Overnight Testing, Delayed Feedback, and Missed Releases.

Risk Based Testing allows your team to automatically select and execute only the few tests impacted by recent code changes on a Per Commit Basis, rather than run the full test suite of mostly unaffected tests.

Accelerate automation te

Test Automation Tools are Idiots - One reason it is hard to Automate Testing (...and what to do about it)

6:00PM EST Online Event - Zoom

In the software testing game, it is all about the details. Testing is really a simple thing to describe; does the software behave as expected? The complexity comes in knowing the details of what to expect and then designing tests to verify the behavior is as expected. Human brains are great at testing

Can/Should You Measure Testing Productivity?

6:00PM EST Online Event - Zoom

Measuring software engineering productivity in general is controversial. Many feel it can't be done, while others strongly resist even trying. As just one part of software engineering, testing presents special additional productivity and measurement concerns. Explore what makes measuring productivity difficult, especially for testing, and why and how to measure testing (and testers') productivity.

• Why management wants to measure testing productivity and teste
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5 QA metrics that have no value (and 5 that have a lot of value)

6:00PM EST Online Event - Zoom

Quality Assurance is about finding issues and helping resolve them. To do that, one of the key tools used is METRICS. Using metrics allows for emotions to be taken out of the equation, because it is all about the numbers and numbers don't lie.

Now the issue is: are you using the right numbers to get to the truth of what is going on, or are you using metrics that have no real value. The problem is that over the decades of QA metrics some of them have been ingrained into organizations that they are needed and tell a story on how well things are going. In some cases those low value metrics could give the audience an idea and have them make a decision, but there is a strong probability that the decision will not really make any positive change.

This session, we will go through a set of reg

Virtual TASSQ Event - Higher-Value Checking

6:00 p.m. EST 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!

Machines pushing virtual buttons at inhuman rates appears impressive. Someone who doesn’t look too closely, or doesn’t understand what testers do, could see the flashing, flickering screen and believe “Lo, there be testing!”

Automated output checking at the GUI level can be tricky. Products and services intended for human users are sometimes not so friendly to machines. It can take a lot of time to write code that successfully works around the unfriendliness—for a while. To show some kind of progress, testers sometimes install a simple check that examines one or two simple factors in the output on a screen.  When the check returns a happy result, everyone breathes a sigh of relief, then moves on to the next screen. Yet this might not be the greatest idea, because the time and effort required to program automated GUI checks may displace the search for problems that matter more to people than to machines—and those problems are where the business risk lives.

Why not use the power of tools to investigate the product? How about combining the power of the machine with the human capacity for recognizing new problems?

How can we use tools effectively to lower cost, increase test coverage, and find problems that matter? What help might we need to

The Top Testing Trends for 2022

6PM EST The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario

Global conditions have impacted how software is being built with accelerated digital transformation, increased cybersecurity and higher adoption of modern iterative practices. The work-from-home trend has impacted the relative importance of software testing practices like application performance testing, scalability, security, and software resilience. Additionally there is a trend toward treating nonfunctional requirements with the same importance as functional so they will not create ongoing issues in your organization in safety, security, reliability, or quality.

Test automation is key to keeping pace in this environment, product better software at the pace of your competitors. Testing tools are necessary to take your strategy forward and achieve testing maturity, but making sure that they work effectively in your CI/CD environment is crucial to success.

Learn why you should:

• Ensure nonfunctional requirements get hig
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Balancing Manual and Automated Tests: Finding the Right Mix

6:00PM EST Online Event - Zoom

Manual testing has long been the cornerstone of software quality, relying on the expertise of software testers to ensure an excellent user experience. However, high-velocity teams often struggle to keep up with frequent releases, demanding a hybrid or even fully automated approach. To manage, quality teams are turning to low-code test automation solutions. But, the line between what to automate and what to test manually is blurred. Understanding the role of each - and their impact on UX - is critical to building an effective quality strategy. In this session, Damon will explore ways to combine manual and automated functional testing to create a high-impact quality engineering strategy. Attendees will hear about how to:

• Connect your strategy
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SSSS of DevOps

6:00pm to 7:30pm EST Online Event - Zoom

Next Generation Functional & Visual Testing Powered by AI

12:00 noon EST Online Event - Zoom

Teams are embracing Shift-Left practices and doing Continuous Testing to get early feedback of the quality of the product. Tools are evolving to assist in this transformation as well by making it easy to implement new tests, execute them faster and on-demand for each new build via Continuous Integration. That said, there is still a gap in the ecosystem - as the User Experience validation needs to be done manually. This manual validation is slow, tedious, error-prone and simply cannot scale for all the supported browsers, viewports and devices.

Attend this session to see how Applitools, the inventor of Visual AI, provides a solution to this problem for Web, Mobile-Web, Native Apps and PDF documents, and in the process, also makes your functional testing easier, faster, more reliable, and scalable.

You will learn:

• The importance of Visual Testing
• See how Visual Assertions make your test code learner, faster, and more stable
• Easy
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Why TMMi?

6:00pm EST Online Event - Zoom

Many people ask why they would bother looking at a model for testing. Why add the expense and effort to implement a model when the current process works and all the testing is proceeding well (save for those few nasty bugs that made it out to production and cost us several customers and a lot of good will).

Join TASSQ for a brief overview of the TMMi model; three reasons why you might want to consider a model with associated ROI; and a way of implementing