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10 things you’ll learn in DevOps, Quality & AI [Webinar Series]

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Join our May Test & Quality webinar series with our 3 testing experts, on 3 hot topics

Quality for DevOps teams with Rik Marselis

‘Deliver business value with the right quality at speed’. That’s what organizations ask of their IT teams. To achieve this, cross-functional IT teams need to work closely together. The DevOps culture is the enabler for this way of high-performance IT delivery, using an automated CI/CD pipeline to deliver at speed. But how do you deliver value with the right quality using DevOps?

Rik shares approaches, practical examples and concise explanations, to enable teams to implement quality engineering practices.

What You’ll Learn

  1. Deliver business value with the right quality at speed
  2. Incorporate quality engineering in the cross-functional teams
  3. Automate everything – as long as it is useful

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Agile Testing with Leanne Howard

COVID-19 has made us all look at the world in a different way, and many of us have been forced to change. We have all heard about websites crashing; the rise in hacking; apps not being accessible to everyone, and the strains on IT services. This all points to getting the cost of quality model right, and a higher focus on our customers’ needs.

Leanne will share experiments that you can try to accelerate your testing whilst still maintaining high quality and customer focus.

What You’ll Learn

  1. Some simple experiments to try
  2. Accelerating testing whilst maintaining quality
  3. How to focus on what the customer needs, now and into the future

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Quality and AI-based Systems with Adam Leon Smith

Looking to improve the quality of AI-based systems?

AI is a complex topic and is the biggest technical renaissance to impact testing for at least two decades. Adam will talk about intrinsic quality issues with AI, challenges in testing AI-based systems, and new techniques and methods.

He will also cover emerging AI-enhanced testing tools that are yet to get much coverage.

What You’ll Learn

  1. Key quality issues with AI
  2. Testing challenges with AI
  3. New ways of testing AI
  4. New tools that you won’t have heard of

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The Test & Quality Webinar Series is the latest series of online talks brought to you by EuroSTAR Conferences. For 2020, we will be taking the entire EuroSTAR Software Testing & Quality Conference online. See more details about the incredible talks you can attend.

4 Software Testing Webinars You Cannot Miss

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Software testing is evolving at a rapid pace. You need to learn more, know more, test more – but that’s OK, As long as you are keeping up with it, you won’t be left behind.

There is a few great ways to keep up to date with software testing news. One would be to follow your favorite software testers on social. The other one is to check software testing websites and blogs run by experienced testing people. And last but not least you can register for webinars and download eBooks. 

This is where EuroSTAR Huddle comes in. We are in close contact with the best minds in software testing and our goal is to provide our readers with fresh content, great webinars and awesome eBooks. And today, we want to show you our 4 webinars that you can register for. Our guests will share their testing knowledge an pass it on to you. Learn from top testers in the game with EuroSTAR Huddle. 

 

Future Skills of Software Testers

Webinar Description: How do you build a tester skills program that matches the requirements of the software industry? Paul will describe how he is helping a consortium of software companies in the Cork area to build a tester skills programme designed to meet the current and future needs of their testing community. The Tester Skills Program encourages and helps testers to think for themselves.

Webinar Info: 23rd July, 2pm BST with Paul Gerrard

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AB Testing is Hard: But You Should Do it Anyway

Webinar Description: 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 we 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.

Webinar Info: 25th July, 3pm BST with Ken Johnston

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Working Well with Test Design Techniques & Test Approaches

Webinar Description: 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 we 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.

Webinar Info: 20th Aug, 2pm BST with Rik Marselis

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 Re-Shaping The Test Pyramid for App Teams

Webinar Description: In this session Jennifer Bonine and Rick Faulise will explore new shifts in testing paradigms.  Demonstrate an AI first testing method that integrates with your current manual and automation testing, and understand AI that aids your app teams.  Re-think where you want to spend time and money in your testing team in a challenge that plagues most companies of too much to test and too little time.

Webinar Info: 22nd Aug, 2pm BST with Jennifer Bonine & Rick Faulise

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6 Benefits of Exhibiting at a Conference

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Does your company offer a service or product that is critical to delivering a decision advantage? The opportunity to meet with and showcase your services to prospective clients should be viewed as a distinct marketing advantage. Knowing what your audience and business goals are, exhibitions provide a great platform to build strong relationships. with key people in your industry. Although social media is a booming industry, nothing beats a face-to-face marketing that can help gain quality leads. Exhibitions can also provide the opportunity to meet new faces and open your business to new markets. 

By exhibiting at a business expo you also have the opportunity to meet a large target audience under one roof and in one day, that could take your sales team a number of months to reach. This saves time and reduces the period required to close a sales lead.

Here are the top 6 reasons why you should exhibit at a conference Thinking of exhibiting at a Software Testing Conference in 2019? Here are 6 reasons why you should. Let’s use EuroSTAR Expo as an example. 

 

Promote Yourself

In today’s world, people tend to gravitate toward experiences that are authentic and real. And potential customers are more likely to believe a real person standing in front of them over an advertisement about how good a certain product or brand is. This is where exhibitors come in.

 

Brand Trust 

Let’s face it -if you exhibit then you are more likely to be considered a serious business player. According to new marketing trends for 2019, personalized promotion, face-to-face promotion is going to be more crucial than ever. Additionally, if you exhibit regularly your product can be perceived to be popular and indeed successful.

 

Educate Customers and Prospects

Exhibiting at EuroSTAR, for example, can help you reach out to potential customers and tell them why your business is the right choice for them. You will educate and help them understand what your business is about. 

 

Visibility

In a world of strong competitors that are growing at a rapid pace, you need to be constantly looking for new ways to get out there and be visible. So you may you a fantastic online presence but to strengthen and grow there also needs to be a level of real visibility. Exhibitions can be ideal 

 

Network with Testers 

What better way to build strong connections than meeting and networking with software testers? At EuroSTAR, tea and coffee during breaks and lunch time is served at the expo. And this is where the amazing expo has time to shine. 

 

Generating Customers

At the end of the day or conference, you want to gain more customers for your business! At EuroSTAR we have a long list of exhibitors that showcase their business for years now and at a satisfactory rate. You can see some of the 2019 exhibitors that have already signed up here. 

 

These are just some of the many benefits associated with exhibiting your business at an expo.  It’s important to spend some time doing the research needed for potential expos to find opportunities that will reap the greatest benefit for your business.