Past Events

ISTQB - Certifications and More

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

Update from March 13: considering the continuing news regarding the coronavirus, and in accordance with the recommendations of health authorities regarding public gatherings in Ontario, TASSQ has decided to cancel this event. Existing registrations will be refunded in the coming days. We are continuously monitoring the situation, if there are further postponements or cancellations we will communicate accordingly. Thank you for your understanding and continued support as we do our part to help flatten the curve.

The TASSQ board

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.

Mr. Mogyorodi is the President of the Canadian Software Testing Board.

Agenda

• 5:30pm-6pm: Welcoming and Networking
• 6pm-7pm: Conference
• 7pm-7:30pm: Discussion and Networking
• 7:30pm:
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How to Choose the Right Service Virtualization Solution

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

Speaker: Chris Colosimo

To realize the benefits from agile and DevOps initiatives, many organizations are turning to service virtualization to implement Continuous Testing and keep up with shortened delivery cycles. By simulating services that are out of control or unavailable for testing, service virtualization enables users to “shift-left” and access complete, realistic test environments, enabling teams to develop and test their applications earlier and more completely. Organizations that have adopted the practice report fewer defects, better test coverage, greater test execution rates, and dramatically less time spent testing.

Once an organization decides to “take the plunge” and evaluate service virtualization solutions, there are many factors to consider to ensure a successful deployment and ROI. On the surface, all service virtualization solutions might look the same, but that’s far from true and there are many pitfalls that can turn a deployment into a disaster. In this presentation, product manager Chris Colosimo will share the tips, tricks, and traps of service virtualization. We’ll discuss the key features and capabilities that have proven successful in deployments, and give you a checklist to help you evaluate solutions against your needs.

In this presentation, attendees will learn:

• Industry-shaping protocols and message formats to create virtual services for simple to complex use cases, like open banking and microservices
• Key features to handle the size, scale, and complexity that a modern enterprise requires
• Scriptless virtual service creation of stateful, simulated services (without intimate knowledge of the real service)
• Understanding and remediating changes to services with automation, reducing the TCO traditionally associated with service virtualization

Relevant links

• Blog Link: https://blog.parasoft.com/service-virtualization-key-capabilities
• Link to Guide: https://alm.parasoft.com/a-guide-to-choosing-the-right-service-virtualization-solution

Agenda

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