Are you ahead or behind? Research findings on Application Security in DevOps

Over the last few years, a major shift has occurred in the Quality Assurance (QA) and Software Testing Management space. Organizations are adopting smart test automation, but continue to find the need for traditional PMO-level reporting offered by tools like Micro Focus ALM and Quality Center. Often, this results in a tool mismatch that negatively impacts the ability to report in real-time across all phases of manual and automated testing.

Smart test automation is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a foundational aspect of the testing process, and this is impacting the toolchain. Organizations are adding new test management tools like Selenium, Tricentis Tosca and others to their suite to better align with their Agile and test automation efforts. Global QA Directors are recognizing a multi-vendor and multi-tool approach to software quality assurance with commercial and open-source tools yields the best results.

With test planning, design, execution, and reporting now split across multiple tools, organizations have lost their visibility into key QA metrics for measuring manual vs. automated test execution effectiveness, test automation progress, automated testing execution progress, and defect remediation for all phases of the software testing lifecycle.

Join Senior Value Stream Architect, Tina Dankwart, to learn how Tasktop can help you:

•Modernize test management by adding new, specialized tools for test automation
•Improve collaboration between QA teams working in their preferred tools of choice
•Eliminate the laborious effort of manual synchronization and report generation
•Centralize test data from automated and manual tests spanning multiple tools and instances for real-time reporting

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Automation and Cloud Builders Special Interest Group (SIG).

In this webinar, you will learn all about Micro Focus PlateSpin; what it is and how can this tool be used to migrate workload from one place to another. The speaker will also explain how the migration to different platforms is setup. After attending this webinar, you will know:

• The core principles of 'lift-and-shift" server migration
• How ATOS is using PlateSpin to successfully migrate customer applications to the cloud and other platforms
• What major features were recently added to PlateSpin and what the future road map looks like

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Testing Quality ALM Special Interest Group (SIG).

Join this webinar that will demonstrate how BNP Paribas started and performed evaluation of ALM Octane and is now using the tool to run complete agile testing lifecycles. The testing lifecycle will be presented as a live demo that follows Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) methodology and uses Gherkin notation for defining test suites.

The testing lifecycle starts with definition of requirements and user stories, heavily builds on test automation and advanced reporting, manages and synchronizes defects across tools, and feeds learnings from testing back into the requirements. It uses an integrated development and testing infrastructure including products like Confluence, Jira, Micro Focus ALM, Micro Focus ALM Octane, Jenkins, GIT, Cucumber, IntelliJ, TestCafe, and others.

BNP Paribas’s journey with agile test automation using ALM Octane started in 2017. The webinar presents in a nutshell how evaluation of ALM Octane was approached and conducted. It explains how new methods were introduced with the objective to leverage full tool functionality. The initiative has soon helped to increase testing efficiency and created important business value.

Webinar participants will learn:

• How BNP Paribas has conducted evaluation of ALM Octane
• Why ALM Octane is much more than just a successor of ALM/Quality Center
• How ALM Octane eases flexible management of its entire surrounding tool chain
• Why methodology like BDD shall precede tools, and not vice versa
• How Gherkin establishes a common language for the entire agile development lifecycle that helps integrating business, development, and testing
• How to use ALM Octane for pipeline management, reporting, defect synchronization, import of performance testing and BPT results, integration of in-sprint testing etc.

There are many challenges facing those who work in the ITSM field. It seems the most significant challenge is the constant changes, whether they are within the tools and customers you are supporting, the on-and-off boarding of employees, or the changes in your ITSM solution from upgrades or total replacement. The Micro Focus Adoption Readiness Tool can help you guard against these changes affecting your business.

• How to stop your knowledge leaving the building when the SME’s move on
• How to put together a knowledge repository and maintain your content efficiently
• How to create new content on the fly
• How to make this knowledge available for everyone at the point of need

As Enterprise DevOps adoption hits the mainstream, organizations are looking to streamline and simplify their Development and Testing practices through the use of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). Whilst CI and CD practices can provide significant benefits, such transformations are often led by Development teams, where little thought is given about the impact that the process and technology changes will have upon testing organizations, and the need to fully align all areas of the application delivery pipeline.
In this live webinar, join Micro Focus to understand:
• How development, test and release processes and pipelines can be easily and simply aligned
• How test automation can be a core component of your CD pipeline and why an orchestrated DevOps toolchain is key to successful DevOps transformation

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit DevOps Special Interest Group (SIG).

SecOps teams are always looking to strike a balance between staying ahead of new threats and not getting burned by older ones, all while having to do a hundred other things at once. The SecOps team at VMware will share their experience adopting a DevOps process for continuous improvement, while working to reduce the extreme utilization level of the Security Operations Center (SOC) team and to improve the overall security posture. The session will offer practical lessons learned, from a real 24/7 global SOC, without all the fancy buzzwords and feel good tips that don’t actually work in the real world.

Join this webinar to learn:

• How shifting the method of working has improved Security Monitoring, without having to spend more money
• What to be aware of when adopting new methods or techniques
• How to plan out goals and achieve them in environments where priorities constantly are shifting

If data is king, then better make sure you collect ALL data types, right? How slow are the DB calls, is the container host strangled, are those VMs saturated, is the cloud vendor quality of service random? These can and will impact your business. Collect Once - Store Once (COSO): our intelligent data lake makes sure that your precious data lives in one place which means you can do great things with it.

In this session, we’ll start with a look at some of the new features that do this in OpsBridge 2019.02:

•See why it has been awarded leader status by EMA for advanced IT analytics, and gold medal by InfoTech for APM, amongst others
•Learn what COSO really is and how you can use BYOBI tools to exploit what it governs
•Watch short demos with these new features in action

Join us to hear about the hot new technology trends and topics in the world of cyber security and how Micro Focus tools can help you stay ahead of the game with your cyber hygiene.

This webinar is the first of its kind, as we are combining the Vivit Automation & Cloud Builders Special Interest Group and the Vivit Security Special Interest Group. This gives us an opportunity:

•To align our thoughts and common practices
•To learn from each other
•To ensure we are all being cyber resilient

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology creates digital factories to automate and integrate any repetitive administrative tasks. RPA reduces labor-intensive processes by imitating human effort to complete tasks, thereby boosting the capabilities of companies that perform high-volume transactional processes. Operating non-invasively on the surface (UI layer) without compromising the underlying IT infrastructure, RPA bridges the technology gap between fragmented, semi-structured legacy systems. The RPA solution is based on industry leading products Operations Orchestration (OO) and Unified Functional Testing (UFT). During this session, you will learn more about this RPA solution with a live demonstration.

At this session we will cover the What and Why of RPA, as well as, hear how some customers are already benefiting:

•Save time and money and learn how growth in adoption of RPA technology by organizations is allowing for greater speed and scalability while at the same time reducing risk
•Overcome manual limitations and gain efficiencies; RPA helps IT eliminate human errors introduced by workarounds and manual data entry, all while completing tasks in record time

Sponsored by Tasktop Technologies, the leader in connecting best-of-breed software delivery tools.

Enterprise Agile, DevOps, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), and now a new buzz word has emerged in software development and delivery known as ‘Value Stream Management’. Join us for a round-table discussion with industry leaders from Deloitte, Micro Focus, and Tasktop Technologies to chat about:

• What is “Value Stream Management”?
• Why are companies still struggling to prioritize and focus on business
value?
• How can companies develop and deliver application at speed with
quality?
• What is the relationship between quality and value stream
management?
• How to optimize the pipeline to accelerate delivery using “Value
Stream Management”?
• Does Value Stream Management help to “mind the gap”?
You can bring your own questions about ‘Value Stream Management’
to share and discuss! Don’t miss out on this opportunity for an action-
packed virtual roundtable with the biggest names leading the Value
Stream Management movement across Software Delivery.

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Service Management Special Interest Group (SIG).

Join us to hear about a company's journey to retire multiple Service Management tools with the rapid deployment of Micro Focus SMAX, and how they drove its adoption. Duplicate software capabilities are expensive to maintain and deny organizations a single source of truth. In this webinar, you will learn:

• About the SMAX transformation journey that became a swift success that saved millions of dollars
• About a successful deployment of SMAX across multiple countries

Brought to you by the Vivit Application Performance Management Special Interest Group (SIG).

After merging monitoring teams for consolidation and cost reduction opportunities, a larger retailer was faced with the challenge of merging the tools into one unified platform. We had two APM instances, both underutilized, that were good candidates to start with. The environments consisted of BSM 9.26 w/Oracle database and APM 9.40 w/SQL server.

This webinar will walk through the deployment plan, problems, and successes we had along the way.

Agenda:

•BSM9.2x to APM Comparison
•Deciding on a Migration Path
•Path of least resistance and down time
•Prep work
•Executing Plan
•Checklist
•Moving things over
•Shutting down decomd instance
•Things you should know
•Integrations
•Q and A session

Brought to you by the Vivit Testing Quality and ALM Special Interest Group (SIG).

In this webinar, you will learn about how Southern Company approaches automating testing, the automated testing framework we created, why we created it, and how it has been used. There will also be a demonstration of UFT being used to run tests using the framework.

Some key take-aways from this webinar will include ideas the following:

• Approaches to automated testing
• How to create a framework that most anyone can understand how to use
• How to create a framework with very readable instructions that can be used for manual testing and automated testing
• How to start building tests in advance of the application or new application elements (buttons, links, input boxes, etc.) being available
• Ways to create automated test result reports

Brought to you by the Vivit Performance Engineering Special Interest Group (SIG).

Most of you may have heard about or experienced Micro Focus Service Virtualization (SV) by now. This webinar is not about explaining what it is or what value it brings to an IT organization. Instead, it is about sharing one team's collective experience with implementing Service Virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) practices at a major pharmacy retail chain company located in Chicago, Illinois.

For insight into this webinar, you may view this three minute video to get a preview of what's coming. Some key take-aways from this webinar include:

• Making the SV business case to leadership
• PoC Guidelines
• Choosing a SV Tool
• SV Beyond the Tools
• SV methodology for Waterfall / Agile models
• SV impact on Microservices, multi-tiered architectures
• SV in Dev Ops
• SV Housekeeping. What's involved?
• ROI samples

Join our panel of experienced Vivit Local User Group (LUG) leaders discussing real world use cases of how to bring Micro Focus customers, partners and field marketing teams together to network, work through software issues, share best practices, and advance your career opportunities.

Why you should attend:

• Hear from four seasoned LUG leaders about their Vivit experience
• Learn how to gain access to Micro Focus software, business leaders, product engineers and developers - all while leading valuable presentations to help your LUG members exchange information about new products and services
• Tips and Tricks on how to expand your visibility into Micro Focus and your network base to further advance your career

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Software Lifecycle Integration Special Interest Group (SIG).

Anyone who has ever attempted to enforce alignment across many domains/projects/teams in order to allow for global reporting will be well aware of its drawbacks and problems.

The list of issues includes:

•Changing processes and tools
•Having to retrain a large number of people
•Delays and disruption
•Resistance from the users and leads who are busy trying to get on with their day-to-day work

In this webinar, we will explore another way of achieving global reporting across different domains by well thought through synchronization.

•Real time reporting with virtually no lead-times
•Teams can keep their own customizations, definitions and processes with no need for change
•No input and hence no time required from team leads/end users
•No disruption, no delays
•No expensive re-training, restructuring, systems changes

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series.

Join Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK and Bob Crews, Co-Founder and CEO of Checkpoint Technologies, as they discuss the ins and outs of founding a tech company.

Topics include:

- Juggling the challenges of being a practitioner, sales rep, marketer and CEO simultaneously
- What to look for in a great vendor partnership
- Application security validation, its trends, and what to look out for

Easily Get 3rd Party Metric, Event, Topology, and Log Data into Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite (OMi) … in 3 minutes (for real)!

StreamWeaver liberates ‘operations data’ (metric, event, topology, and log) to help IT achieve high availability and optimizing the performance of critical business services. To do this, we automate the distribution of the data from all domains and all clouds to the applications (including Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite – OMi) and teams best positioned to achieve the desired business outcomes.

Visualize, Monitor, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Environments with Operations Bridge – A Look At The Next Generation From Micro Focus

Speakers: Gary Brandt, Saumya Upadhyaya and Carol Park
Visualize, Monitor, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Environments with Operations Bridge – A Look At The Next Generation From Micro Focus: Today’s reality is that Hybrid IT demands more from IT Operations. 88% of organizations are sharing data between cloud and on premise applications, and 64% are finding that problem resolution takes longer and is more difficult in these environments. IT Operations teams must be able to visualize, monitor, and remediate issues across virtually any environment before end users are impacted. Please join us to learn how Micro Focus can optimize your Hybrid IT operations.

Here’s what our agenda looks like:

•Learn about how Hybrid IT is changing the demands of IT Operations
•Hear about what’s new in OpsBridge 2018.08
•See an executive demo of automated hybrid IT monitoring with OpsBridge
•Learn how to utilize BVD-in-3 to create business value dashboards in a flash