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27 October, 2020

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

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29 September, 2020

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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21 August, 2020

DON'T REGISTER - TASSQ NEW WEBSITE TESTING IN PROGRESS

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

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23 June, 2020

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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26 May, 2020

QA Guilds, True Agile and the Spotify Model

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 May 26 conference a free online event!

Speaker: Richard Strang

In 2018, Element Fleet Management committed to implementing "True Agile" into their entire software development organization. With the assistance of Boston Consulting Group, they embraced the "Spotify Model" of Agile which includes organizing Guilds for each role on the Squad.

In early 2019, Richard Strang was hired as the QA Guild Leader for Element. He found an organization with the will, but not the experience to best apply the Agile Principles into their software development processes. Over the last year, Richard has instituted a QA Guild at Element that endeavors to provide a forum for the 90+ testers currently working at Element to discuss the projects, practices, tools, and strategies that we all need to provide a quality service to our clients.

You are invited to attend a model QA Guild Meeting where we will discuss typical topics that come up with the testers currently working at Element. Richard will also present his experience and challenges imple

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28 April, 2020

Testing Deep and Shallow

6:15 p.m. Go To Meeting Conference

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 April 28 conference a free online event!

Speaker: Michael Bolton

One of the most fundamental questions you can ask about testing is "Did I test that?" But there isn't a binary answer to that question. We know when we haven't tested at all, but there is no such thing as infinite testing, so we can’t every test completely. We test in different ways, at different times, in different situations, for different reasons. And so, responsible testers must be able to reason about and assess the relative depth of their testing. How do we do that?

In this talk, Michael Bolton offers some suggestions on how to think about testing depth. That’s not simply about structural depth — “unit testing”, “sub-system testing”, “system testing”, or “end-to-end testing”. Instead, it’s about the thoroughness of testing — and t

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06 April, 2020

Parasoft Virtualize Training - 2 Days Course

9:00 am 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


Trainer

  • Venkata Penmetsa

Description 

  • The Parasoft Virtualize Training course covers basic and intermediate skills necessary to get acquainted with Parasoft Virtualize including real-life examples of SOAP/REST services, which the students will follow on their workstations. The examples are selected to showcase capabilities of Parasoft Virtualize to control virtual service response behavior and performance.
  • Students will learn service virtualization fundamentals, the application of Parasoft Virtualize for creating, configuring, and managing complex virtual assets to simulate the required components within the client’s infrastructure
  • Delivered by a Parasoft Technical Consultant, it is a fast and convenient way to learn the functionality of Virtualize for Service and Database Virtualization.

Prerequisites 

  • Students attending the course should have strong problem-solving skills and an understanding of debugging (logical approach to problem solving and debugging), XML, JSON, and Web Services familiarity with any special topics requested for the training such as WS-Security, JMS, EJB, etc.
  • Students are required to bring their own workstations
  • Google Chrome Browser installed on the workstations

Benefits 

  • Equip teams with the Parasoft Virtualize skills necessary to be highly productive
  • Enable teams new to service virtualization to effectively simulate API behavior
  • Improve service virtualization competency for teams with previous service virtualization experience
  • Understanding how to best engage in supporting application teams with virtual services

Training Curriculum 

Day 1 - April 6 2020 

  • Understanding Application Behavior Virtualization and related integration and messaging technologies
    • Understanding Service Virtualization concepts
    • Gathering virtualization behavior requirements
  • Introduction to Virtualize
  • Virtualize Interface 
  • Parasoft Virtualize components
  • Creating your First Asset
  • Understanding and Working with Message Proxies
  • Monitoring Traffic
  • Creating Assets from Traffic
  • Creating Assets from a Service Definitions
  • Configuring Assets for Dynamic Responses
    • Correlating messages
    • Using data sources to correlate responses with dynamic values
    • Passing values from the request to the response
    • Use of scripted extensions to customize behavior
  • Building stateful virtual assets
  • Setting Performance Profiles
  • Use of Parasoft SOAtest with Parasoft Virtualize
    • To help model and adjust virtual asset behavior
    • Execute use case scenarios on the application under test to generate traffic
    • Create and run tests and monitor Parasoft Virtualize events

Day 2 - April 7, 2020 

  • Database virtualization
    • Deploying and configuring the Parasoft JDBC proxy driver
    • Recording JDBC interactions
    • Generating database virtual assets with SQL responders
    • Maintaining and modifying result set data with Excel
  • Understanding XPath
  • Data Management strategies
  • Working with Secure Services
  • Capturing and modeling virtual assets for JMS and MQ connections
  • Creating Hierarchical XML Data from Excel
  • Persisting and versioning asset definitions in a change management system

Overflow Topics (Optional) 

The following topics may be demonstrated if there is extra time, and interest from the audience.

  • API Test Automation with Parasoft SOAtest
  • Environment Manager Concepts and Terminology
  • Systems and Environments; versioning and defining for re-use
  • Connecting to and managing Parasoft Virtualize Servers
  • Using Environment Manager to provision Test Environments and Virtual Assets
  • Environment Manager defined roles and artifact access control

Participants 

This program is limited to up to 12 participants.

  • Technical Leads / Architects
  • Web Service/SOA Developers
  • QA and Test Engineers
  • Performance Engineers

Duration 

This program is for 2 consecutive days (8 hours/day) of training

Deliverables 

Printable Training Guide that outlines Parasoft Virtualize topics.

Pricing 

Regular price $950, non TASSQ member

Regular price $875, TASSQ member

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31 March, 2020

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
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25 February, 2020

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
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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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