Upcoming Events

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: Dinner

Presentation only is free for members and $10 for non-members, presentation and 3 courses dinner is $40 for members and $55 for non-members.

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ISTQB - Certifications and More

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

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: Dinner

Presentation only is free for members and $10 for non-members, presentation and 3 courses dinner is $40 for members and $55 for non-members.

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Parasoft Virtualize Training - 2 Days Course

9:00 am The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario

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

Early bird pricing $900, non TASSQ member (Valid until March 13, 2020)

Early bird pricing $850, TASSQ member (Valid until March 13,2020)

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Testing Deep and Shallow

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

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 the capacity of testing to find elusive bugs that matter.

Agenda

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

Presentation only is free for members and $10 for non-members, presentation and 3 courses dinner is $40 for members and $55 for non-members.

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QA Guilds, True Agile and the Spotify Model

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

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 implementing a QA Guild in an enthusiastic but inexperienced organization.

Agenda

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

Presentation only is free for members and $10 for non-members, presentation and 3 courses dinner is $40 for members and $55 for non-members.

Register