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Host a Testing Meet-up

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Have you ever thought about hosting a local meet-up? Here is the kick-start you need to host your first local software testing meet-up!

It can be difficult to start the planning process. So here is a quick and simple, step-by-step guide to help you get started. With the help of the TeamSTAR Competition, your first meet-up is destined for complete success!

Take the 1st step by choosing the event idea. Here are some meet-up ideas:

🌟Coffee shop meet-up
🌟Storytelling session
🌟Speaker presentation
🌟Inclusion & diversity discussion
🌟Working well
🌟Pizza and beer
🌟Software testing Scrabble

Step 2 is to register your event on Meet-up.com. This is a great way of letting people in your locality know about your event and to confirm attendance.

Step 3 is to Enter the TeamSTAR Competition (Register before Sept. 13th) You will receive an awesome goodie box to share with attendees, along with the chance to win 4 tickets to #EuroSTARConf

Step 4 – Get Social! Use your own social media channels to promote the event online and spark an interest in your local area. Take pictures, videos, Instagram stories, tweets using #EuroSTARConnects, so we can see all your hard-work. We will help by re-sharing all your posts.

Final step – Do a write up, tell the world how successful your first meet-up was, what was discussed, what was done, who was there etc. Spark the interest for the next event!

There you have it, your first software testing meet-up! Best of luck with starting your first testing meet-up, we can’t wait to hear all about it.

Register a testing meeting with us before Sept 13th to be part of the TeamSTAR CompetitionTeamSTAR Meetup Competition EuroSTAR Conference

The Skills You Will Learn

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This month at EuroSTAR we have planned some great webinars to ensure that your testing is ahead of the testing game.

 

We are excited to have Paul Gerrard back with us with his webinar Future Skills of Software Testers. With the software testing industry constantly evolving, the tester needs to evolve too. Change in the industry means testing and tester skills need to change too. The current training that is there for testers is simply not enough- certification and courses available will not excel your testing and Paul is currently working on building a tester skill programme designed to meet the current and future needs of the testing community. With this webinar, learn to think for yourself!

We are also thrilled to have Ken Johnston with us from Microsoft with his webinar AB Testing is Hard: But You Should Do it Anyway. Experimentation, often called A/B Testing, has been around as a common practice for web sites for more than 20 years.  With Microsoft Windows and Office, people now AB test not just UX Changes but also bug fixes.  One thing we find all the time, it’s easier to mess up an AB test than it is to get it right.  Everything from designing the test to actually prove the hypothesis to getting a proper distribution.  It really is hard but even so, you need to get great at it and you just need to do it. Join Ken Johnston this month to learn how to build an experimentation culture, design good experiments and develop actionable data.

Register for all upcoming webinars this month and next and sign up to our newsletter to be the first to hear about the latest content coming your way!

 

Automation Tools you’ll find at EuroSTAR 2019

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The EuroSTAR Conference is home to Europe’s Largest Software Testing Expo, attracting the leading testing tool and services providers each year with over 1,000 software testing & QA professionals attending. 

Delegates get the most out of their EuroSTAR experience when they visit the Expo and meet the excellent partners showcasing their testing tools and services.  You will discover new automation tools and services that will benefit your day to day work, your company’s goals and objectives and find news ways to improve working well practices for you and your team.

Here are some of the top automation tools that you will find at the EuroSTAR Software Testing Expo:

Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is on of the top-rated Atlassian Jira app for quality assurance and test management. It’s a full-featured, enterprise test case management solution that is seamlessly integrated in Jira. It offers end-to-end traceability across issues, requirements, test cases, and execution. Test Management for Jira has been designed to meet the needs of testers, developers, QA directors and Jira admins. There is no need to switch between environments as you can do everything right inside Jira. 

Applitools provides commercial-grade, visual AI-based test cloud that validates application under interfaces in a fully automated manner. It is built to test all the elements that appear on a screen with just one line of code. Using AI powered cognitive vision, you can automatically verify that your web or mobile app appears correctly across all devices, all browsers and all screen sizes.

Inflectra: SpiraTest is a test management software that lets you create and run all of your tests from a single QA powerhouse. Easily generate tests from requirements, and bugs from tests.

Jamo Solutions– Jamo Automator is a code-less cloud-based tool that allows the user to focus on the tester without needing a develop implementation. It uses an artificial intelligence-based engine to recognize uniquely UI objects. This tool facilitates the creation of automated test cases, report reading and test case maintenance.

JetBrains creates professional software development tools for coding in Java, Kotlin, C#, C++, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript and more languages, as well as advanced team collaboration tools. By automating routine checks and corrections, their products speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover and create.

Leapwork: is a great solution provider for intelligent, out-of-the-box software automation that everyone can use. With its unique visual flow designer, the LEAPWORK Automation Platform hides all unnecessary complexity from the end-user, works across technologies, and comes with on-demand, personal support from automation experts. With their tool, build automated tests from day one with codeless UI automation & eliminate the maintenance burden that’s holding back QA.

Mabl is changing the way QA is done with an auto-healing automation framework and cloud-based test infrastructure that eliminates the burden of test script and infrastructure maintenance. mabl is delivered as a robust, codeless, intelligent, all-in-one platform that allows QA teams to test continuously and at scale in DevOps. Using proprietary machine learning models to automatically identify application issues like visual regressions, increased latency, javascript errors, broken links and more, mabl brings traditional UI and regression testing to the modern age

Maveryx is a Test Automation Company that provides world-class innovation in software testing and automation to help improving quality of software applications, reducing complexity, saving time and costs. The Maveryx Test Automation Framework is an automated functional, regression, GUI, data-driven and keyword-driven testing tool. It provides powerful and easy-to-use automated capabilities to beginners (scriptless) and experts (scripting) for testing a wide range of Desktop and Web applications. This tool eliminates the need for recording actions, GUI Maps, Object Repositories and so on, cutting the connected expensive maintenance costs.

Microfocus provides critical tools to build, operate, secure and analyse an enterprise in a constantly changing world. useMango™ is a functional test automation tool that integrates with HPE ALM to test Oracle EBS, SAP GUI, and web applications. For organisations implementing, upgrading, patching or enhancing SAP, Oracle EBS, and web applications who are dissatisfied with their current level of test automation.

Parasoft SOAtest brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to functional testing to support users test applications with multiple interfaces, in-turn allowing simple end-to-end testing. The efficiency of Parasoft SOAtest can transform the functional testing artifacts into security and performance test, while building a foundation of automated tests to execute as part of Continuous Integration and DevOps pipelines.

Progile – TestResults.io automation service provider provide access to Test Automation by delivering Automated Testing to small, medium and highly regulated businesses such as MedTech. This service allows these companies to automate their regression, performance & stability tests as well as their live monitoring in a plug & play fashion combined with a simple pay-as-you-go approach.

Sauce Labs is one of the world largest cloud-based platforms for automated testing of web and mobile applications. Sauce labs enables companies to accelerate software development cycles, improve application quality and deploy with confidence over a vast range of browsers and OS platforms. They provide services to Fortune 500 businesses, worldwide.

Smart Bear – TestComplete is an automated UI testing tool that makes it fast and easy to create, maintain, and execute functional tests across desktop, web, and mobile applications. It can increase test coverage and ensure you ship high-quality, battle-tested software.

Xray is a highly rated manual & automated test management app for Quality Assurance in Jira. Developed by Xpand IT, a Platinum Atlassian Solution Partner, it’s a full-featured tool that lives inside and seamlessly integrates with Jira. Its aim is to help companies improve the quality of their products through effective and efficient testing.  Xray integrates directly with the leading SDLC software: Jira. With your development and test teams working in the same tool, you never ship untested or broken code again.

If you are interested in showcasing your company at the 2019 EuroSTAR Conference, download the Expo Brochure today.  Limited spaces left for this years event.  We look forward to welcoming you to Prague, this November!