• Why you need to prepare now for the Web 2.0 enterprise
• How you should apply a risk-based testing strategy to SOA and Web 2.0 applications
• Why promoting visibility of providers and consumers helps you test more effectively
• How to create a test plan for a Web 2.0 application

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Steve Splaine
Author and Software Testing Consultant

Nick Bonfiglio
Vice President Worldwide Operations
CollabNet  

CollabNet

Details most current software projects, whether for medical systems, financial systems, defense, consumer products or embedded systems, cover several sites and include team members representing many different cultures and disciplines. This highly distributed nature of software projects often requires teams to create software in collaboration with one or multiple partners, off-shore vendors and remote customers. During this event you will hear about the operational challenges project teams face in a distributed development environment, how an integrated development infrastructure can effectively manage and govern the code, build and test release cycles of large scale systems, increase productivity of distributed teams, and improve quality of delivered systems, while ensuring that the projects are created in a secure environment.

Presentation

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Dion Johnson
Senior Test Consultant and Managing Partner, DiJohn IC, Inc.

Andy Gurd
Director of Product Marketing, Product Portfolio and Requirements Management
Telelogic  

Telelogic

Details In most projects, software requirements are viewed as an important initial step. Unfortunately, many projects treat requirements as a traffic signal that determines when development can begin. Once they have the green light, typical projects will speed past the requirements phase into development and never look back. Attend this Web seminar to learn why requirements are not a stop light, but rather a guiding light that leads the project through all of its phases to successful deployment.

Presentation

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Justin Gehtland
Co-founder of Relevance, LLC

Erez Barak
Senior Product Manager, Load Testing
HP Software

HP Software

Ajax is getting a lot of attention from the developer community as a new technology to deliver SOA-enabled composite applications using the prevalence of Web browsers. Gartner expects that 60 percent of all new application projects will use rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Ajax within the next three years.  Register for this Web seminar where Justin Gehtland, Co-founder of Relevance LLC, and Erez Barak, Senior Product Manager at HP Software, will discuss how developers need to focus on these new performance areas and develop new skills and techniques to tackle them.

Presentation

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Dale Perry
Consultant
Software Quality Engineering

Dan Koloski
CTO and Director of Strategy
Empirix

Empirix

In this Web seminar, some of the more common issues and examples of successful performance testing infrastructures/architectures.  In addition you will learn how to navigate the tradeoffs and implications of various performance test architecture configurations.

Presentation

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Andreas Golze, Charlie Li, Shel Prince
Authors of the new book, "Optimize Quality for Business Outcomes: A Practical Approach to Software"

Mercury

In this Web seminar, learn about a practical approach to product testing, as well as strategies for eliminating trial and error testing—with no additional time or financial resources.

Presentation

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst for ZapThink and John Michelsen, iTKO Founder and Chief Architect

iTKO

In this Web seminar, Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst for ZapThink, explores the full scope of considerations for SOA quality and how to address quality throughout the SOA software lifecycle.

Presentation

PowerPoint Presentation 1 (1.6 MB) or PowerPoint Presentation 2 (2.8 MB)

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Dale Perry, Consultant, Software Quality Engineering and Joe Fernandes, Director of Product Management, Empirix

Empirix

In this presentation, learn how creating a representative load profile is one of the key requirements for successful performance test planning and critical to effective tool usage.

Presentation

PowerPoint Presentation (1.0 MB)

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Tim Lister, The Atlantic Systems Guild and John Carrillo, Telelogic

Telelogic

Tim Lister of The Atlantic Systems Guild and John Carrillo of Telelogic discuss key strategies for building solid requirements that remain persistent from definition through development.

Presentation

Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Dan Downing, Mentora Group and Matt Morgan, Mercury

Mercury

During this complimentary Web Seminar, Dan Downing, Vice President of Testing Services from Mentora Group, shines the spotlight on key mistakes that ERP implementations should avoid. They’ve been distilled from multiple ERP testing projects as part of global enterprise implementations.

Wednesday, June 7, 2006, 2:00 p.m. EST

Jose Fajardo, founder of Octane Systems and Linda Hayes, CTO of Worksoft

Worksoft

Learn what the top challenges are to efficient and effective testing. Plan for success both during the original go-live project and future changes and updates. Discover the key factors that drive quality for enterprise application implementation and help assure the reliability of critical business processes.

Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 2:00 p.m. EST

Scott Barber, Chief Technologist, President, and CEO, PerfTestPlus, Inc. and Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Vice President Products, Mercury

Mercury

Learn how to further understand and effectively integrate two extremely complex technologies, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services, while effectively accelerating your application and performance testing. Gain further insight into tools, techniques and methodologies that will establish trust in both the individual components (services) and the application as a whole.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 2:00 p.m. ET

Timothy Korson, StickyMinds.com consultant and Korson Consulting Senior Partner and Irv Badr, Embedded Technology Specialist from Telelogic

Telelogic

Learn how to dramatically increase productivity while simultaneously eliminating one of the most error-prone parts of software development. It's long been the dream of software professionals to generate executable software code that fills the business need, works the first time and is maintainable over the long term. Model-Driven Development just might make this dream come true. Model-Driven Development shifts the focus of developers from constructing source code to building a model as the primary development effort focus. It can dramatically impact the way software is developed and the way we build automated test environments and design tests.

Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 2:00 p.m. ET

Lee Copeland and John Michelsen

iTKO

Join us in this exciting Webinar to learn more about the promises and challenges of Service-Oriented Architecture. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises a framework for integrating both business processes and the supporting IT infrastructure as reusable services, easily combined to solve business problems, and later easily modified and recombined as the business environment changes, creating agility in IT systems never before achieved. SOA is a strategic approach to IT development that integrates business needs with IT expertise. Following Software Quality Engineering Consultant Lee Copeland's presentation, John Michelsen, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of iTKO, Inc. will discuss why today's composite SOA software requires a collaborative approach to quality at the component and the system level.

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Dion Johnson

AutomatedQA

In this presentation, Dion Johnson provides a realistic approach to computing test automation ROI including specific benefit categories and calculations. In addition, he will share some helpful tips for increasing your organization’s automation ROI.

October 18, 2005

Lee Copeland and Roy D'Souza

Akimbi Systems

While many organizations use automation to help with other parts of development and test—automated code analysis, test execution, defect tracking and build management—most still create their environments manually. The net effect is that multiple, complex environments become a huge bottleneck that slows system delivery, reduces system quality and steals your personal life.

July 19, 2005

Rick Craig

Telelogic

When most people think of testing, they usually think of executing tests, finding defects and reporting to management on the quality of the software. However, by using Preventive Testing techniques, the same people who do this work can help reduce the number of defects created during development. By using a preventive testing approach, your testing and QA staff “test” the requirements specifications before developers start the design and begin coding. You will identify obvious ambiguities and omissions in the requirements very early in the lifecycle, saving time and money in development. On projects with very limited requirements specifications, test inventories can be created and used as the basis for execution-based testing later in development.

June 9, 2005

Lee Copeland and Chris Belthoff

Segue

In this Web seminar, we’ll discuss ways to define objective release criteria and use those criteria to decide when to release your software product. Learn how to use requirements traceability, test coverage, and defect data, and risk analysis to take the guess work out of software releases.

April 12, 2005

Rick Craig and Joe Fernandes

Empirix

This Web seminar will dissect the commonly used measures of test effectiveness and identify practical, valuable metrics your organization can use to measure testing. It will also discuss what code and requirement coverage can tell you about the effectiveness of your testing effort.