Name: The Building Blocks of Better QA: How to Take a Modular Approach to Testing
Start: 2017-09-28T17:45:00Z
End: 2017-09-28T18:19:12.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Rainforest QA helps agile and continuous delivery engineering teams move faster with the industry’s only AI-powered crowdtesting platform. Our platform leverages 60,000 trained testers to deliver on-demand, comprehensive, and machine learning verified regression test results. Rainforest customers spend less time and money testing so they can ship better applications faster. Learn more at www.rainforestqa.com/

Over the years, techniques, methodologies, and ways of thinking have been introduced to the software testing industry that added value at one point, but they have now become stale, less impactful, or even downright counterproductive.

It’s time to update your testing views.

Watch this webcast to learn different approaches and recommendations to help you either remove these harmful strategies and replace them with more meaningful ones, or modernize them to ensure innovation is a driving force within your testing team.

In this session, we explore the top five don’ts of software testing:
-- Don’t be the enabler
-- Don’t automate everything
-- Don’t have QA-only sprints or cycles
-- Don’t own all testing
-- Don’t hide information

The Top 5 Don’ts of Software Testing

Developing a QA strategy that works well is challenging. Developing a QA strategy that continues to work well as your organization scales is even more difficult. While the market demands faster deployment cycles than ever before, QA teams are smaller than they have ever been, and many struggle to move as fast as they need to.

There’s no one-size-fits-all QA process, but the most successful teams have a few key characteristics in common. Join this web seminar to discover how organizations keep their QA teams and processes lean while gaining the insights they need to ship high-quality software.

You will learn:
Why taking a strategic approach to how you test helps optimize QA resources, no matter the size of your team
How to set up your QA process for fast, clear insights, from testing environments to workflow integrations
The role of automation in a highly efficient QA workflow
How to use quality metrics to measure and iterate your QA strategy

Scaling QA without Scaling Your QA Team

Test automation is often held up as the QA endgame. Teams mistakenly believe that if they can crack the automation code, all of their quality problems will be solved. But even when implemented perfectly, automated tests are brittle, flaky, and require significant upkeep.

Automation is a critical QA tool, but it's not a magic bullet. To get the most out of automated testing and deliver high-quality releases, QA teams must devise a strategy that balances cost management and speed.

In this webinar you'll learn more about:

- the true cost of test automation, 
- how to adapt your test automation approach to fit faster iteration cycles, and
- the best tools and processes to complement your automation strategy.

Crack the Automation Code: Create a Balanced Test Automation Strategy

In the software economy, innovation and speed are the new standards. However, teams cannot just focus on speed without considering the risk of delivering poor end-user experiences. How can teams create test strategies that prioritize and balance both quality and speed?

Join this web seminar to learn how teams can build strategies that balance the demands of a fast-moving release cadence with customer expectations for quality. 

You will learn how to:

-- Build test suites strategically to maximize impact
-- Cover all your bases without compromising time and resources
-- udit your QA strategy by asking yourself five critical questions
-- Fix gaps and bottlenecks in your testing processes by adopting agile principles

Developing with Quality in Mind: A Blue Print to Power Up Your QA Strategy

According to a survey conducted for the 2017-2018 World Quality Report, 29% of executive teams expect their QA and Software Testing strategy to contribute to business growth and outcomes. However, software quality leaders often struggle to tie their QA strategy to business goals. So how do you translate a business goal into a QA strategy component? 

Join “How Can I Tie My QA Strategy to My Business Goals?”, where Rainforest CEO, Fred Stevens-Smith, and Rainforest’s Director of Professional Services, Jeremy Bivaud, will share how to use the business data you already have available to create a QA process that drives positive business outcomes. In this webinar, they will cover:

1. How to tie high-level business goals to your QA strategy 
2. Tips on how to tap into your existing data for quality strategy success 
3. Tools and thought processes for leveling up your QA strategy

How Can I Tie My QA Strategy to My Business Goals?

Data scientists have spent decades trying to figure out how to qualitatively evaluate code quality to better understand what is “good” code and what isn’t - objectively, definitively and without emotion. While it is an interesting area to explore, is it a futile effort? After all, it isn’t uncommon for developers to disagree on how code should be approached to reach the same outcome. 

Join “Data Science Digest: Source Code Metrics that Matter,” where Dr. Maciej Gryka, Sr. Data Science Manager at Rainforest, shares his compiled learnings on the topics of Data Science, Machine Learning and Software Quality. In this session, he’ll cover: 
 
- Quantitative source code metrics that matter
- How these quality metrics are useful in actual day-to-day work
- How people are trying to solve this problem with machine learning

This is the first in his series of literature reviews for people who are interested in learning about notable research journals.

Data Science Digest: Source Code Metrics that Matter

As products and organizations mature, testing and QA become more critical to the overall success of a business. The ideal QA strategy should be fast, reliable, and fit right into a modern continuous integration pipeline. This leads many technical leaders to conclude that everything should be automated.

In reality, not everything can, or should, be automated. Leaders must make difficult, high-impact decisions on behalf of their teams by asking: What should be automated? When should investments in automation be made? Is automation the most cost-effective solution to delivering quality?

Join this web seminar to learn:

1. How to mitigate risk and create a plan to proactively manage the biggest automated testing threats
2. Ways to identify gaps in your current testing strategy and address them with solutions that complement CI/CD practices
3. How to deliver working solutions to customers quickly to achieve business objectives in a crowded market

What Technical Leaders Should Know about Automation Before Biting the Bullet

An agile QA process is essential for any development team or organization's success. Creating an effective QA process is challenging, even for small organizations. As organizations grow in size and complexity, they must adapt their QA strategy to keep up with and stay ahead of development and product goals. 

How can fast-growing teams scale their QA processes efficiently, without creating a bloated, time-consuming or expensive processes?

Join this webinar to learn how to develop an agile QA process that scales and avoid common growing pains. You'll also learn:

1. The key characteristics of agile QA at scale 
2. Tips on how to set up for scaling success 
3. Strategies to avoid critical growth mistakes

Common Pitfalls When Scaling Agile QA and How to Avoid Them

Most developer testing strategies require developers to pull double-duty, juggling both writing code and testing it. Although adding testing tools and procedures to developer processes can increase code quality and ownership, it slows down productivity significantly. 

How do organizations empower their developers to own quality without creating distractions that take them away from building and releasing innovative, new features?

In this webinar, we’ll cover:
1. Trade-offs to consider between standalone vs. embedded QA teams 
2. How a developer-owned QA team can effectively collaborate on testing ownership and code quality
3. Tools and setups that enable individual developers to manage their QA processes end-to-end

Should Developers Own Quality? Pros and Cons of Developer Testing

To Automate or Not to Automate: 
5 Things to Consider when Building a Test Automation Strategy

Test automation is often seen as the driving force behind continuous delivery and agile practices in the application era. However, while test automation can help speed up the building and testing of apps, not every test case is a great fit for automation.

Whether teams are developing a new QA strategy or optimizing an existing process, testing should be fast and reliable. But how do teams determine how to use test automation to the greatest impact, and when is human input critical to delivering exceptional customer experiences?

Join this web seminar to learn key considerations for test automation and why some tests are better left to manual testers. You’ll also learn:

1. When and how to get started with test automation
2. How to identify which tests should be automated
3. Risks and expectations to consider with automated testing
4. How to implement manual testing and automated testing techniques where each is most applicable

To Automate or Not to Automate

Development cycles are moving faster than ever, and many teams now design QA processes to keep up with that speed. But what can teams with legacy code and older test databases do to bring their existing features up to speed? 

In this webinar, we’ll discuss QA strategies and tools that teams can use to address the challenges of maintaining legacy features and applications.

We'll also cover:
1. How to effectively strategize what types of tests to add to legacy software
2. What cost-effective tools and testing strategies you can adopt in your organization
3. Approaches to incorporating testing into your organization’s build pipelines

Maintaining Legacy Code Quality: How to Work Effectively with Legacy Code

Development teams are shipping more features, faster than ever, and each release carries the risk of introducing bugs to your users. To ensure customer happiness, teams must have confidence that their QA process will catch any existing issues before they reach production. An effective strategy for identifying and addressing bugs is an essential component of any healthy QA strategy. 

In this webinar, our QA experts will cover:
1. How teams can increase the efficacy of their QA process and reduce the number of bugs that reach customers
2. How frontend teams can quickly triage bugs found in production
3. Different types of testing that help teams deliver products and experiences that customers love

The True Cost of Shipping Defects: Find Bugs Before Your Customers Do

With shorter sprint cycles and more aggressive release cadences, many agile teams feel forced to choose speed over quality. However, the impact of poor software quality on a company’s bottom line proves that quality is a critical component to consider when trying to get new features to the market.

By embracing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), many teams are able to perform continuous testing and successfully adapt to shorter sprint cycles while maintaining the quality of their code.

Join this web seminar to discover how agile teams can strike the right balance between software quality and speed to achieve their goals while keeping customers happy.

You will learn:

1. How the adoption of CI/CD has changed the way developers ship software
2. The trade-offs to consider between speed and quality
3. The benefits of moving faster for developers and customers
4. How to maintain quality in a high-velocity environment

Continuous Testing: Striking a Balance Between Quality and Speed

QA budgets are getting bigger but QA teams are getting smaller, with many fast-moving organizations forgoing a QA hire for as long as possible. But how do you keep quality high without a QA team? In this webinar, Rainforest engineers discuss how they’ve successfully implemented a developer-owned QA process at Rainforest. 

In this webinar, discover...
1. How Rainforest manages the QA process without a dedicated QA headcount
2. What the development teams must know about owning quality
3. How teams can integrate testing into their workflow without increasing their workload

QA without a QA Team

Implementing a more strategic approach to testing can have a huge impact on product quality, but measuring exactly how your QA strategy has made a difference can be challenging. The long-term success of any QA strategy depends on measuring change and communicating that change to the team at large, so it’s important to measure the right metrics. 

In this webinar, discover...
1. Five essential metrics that QA teams should track 
2. How to avoid common pitfalls when it comes to measuring the success of a QA strategy
3. Techniques to level-up product quality by taking a data-driven approach to software testing

5 Essential Quality Metrics that Matter: Measuring the Quality of Your Product

It’s easy to get into the mindset of testing-all-the-things. But aiming for quantity over quality will still leave you with coverage gaps, while also dragging down the speed of your QA cycle. In this webinar, we’ll talk about how to determine how much you should be testing, and how to design your QA strategy to fit the needs of your team and product. 

In this webinar, learn how to...
1. Balance the number of tests against your assurance
2. Build test suites strategically to maximize impact. 
3. Cover all your bases without compromising time & resources.

How Much Do I Need to Test? Creating a Custom QA Strategy

Agile teams are beginning to test earlier than ever before in order to improve quality, shorten test cycles and reduce the possibility of releasing bugs. To successfully move fast without breaking things, teams must integrate quality assurance into their CI/CD processes.  

In this webinar, you will learn: 

1. The fundamentals of automatable QA strategies
2. How to successfully integrate quality into your CI process
3. How to shorten the feedback loop between catching and fixing bugs

Integrating Quality into Software Development

Test automation is often held up as the QA endgame. Teams mistakenly believe that if they can crack the automation code, all of their quality problems will be solved. But even when implemented perfectly, automated tests are brittle, flaky, and require significant upkeep.

Automation is a critical QA tool, but it's not a magic bullet. To get the most out of automated testing and drive high-quality releases, teams must devise a QA strategy that balances management costs and testing speed.

Join this web seminar to learn how to create a balanced test automation strategy that satisfies your team’s needs.

You’ll also learn:

- The true cost of test automation
- How to adapt your test automation approach to fit faster iteration cycles
- The best tools and processes to complement your automation strategy

Crack the Automation Code and Create a Balanced Test Automation Strategy

Growing teams often hit a ceiling when scaling QA. Writing and maintaining the number of tests required to comprehensively test a complex product can easily become a major time and resource sink. By taking a modular approach to testing, QA and development teams can more effectively integrate testing into their development cycles and reduce management overhead significantly.

In this webinar, discover how to... 
1. Adopt a modular approach to test case management
2. Build test coverage that provides the greatest ROI
3. Improve QA efficiency over time

The Building Blocks of Better QA: How to Take a Modular Approach to Testing

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