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| | | | | See All On Demand Web Seminars | | | | | | Presented by: Brad Stoner, Performance and Testing Team Lead, H&R Block, and Steve Weisfeldt, Senior Engineer, Neotys Broadcast Date: 05/22/2012
Since launching H&R Block's Performance Testing division four years ago, the company has reduced its number of production performance issues by 90%. In this web seminar, H&R Block's Performance Test Lead Brad Stoner will discuss how they delivered superior application quality with a 50% improvement in productivity. Join us on this web seminar where you will learn first-hand from H&R Block and Neotys how to increase testing team productivity by 50%--even with a decreased budget, ensure quality and performance from new Web 2.0 applications, "elevate your game" and increase the value performance testing gives to the organization with a continuous improvement process, and provide both the business and operations with actionable insight into their applications.

| | | | | | Presented by: Pete DuPré, Chief Architect, Borland, a Micro Focus company, and Hollie Lopes, System Lifecycle Manager, Invertix Broadcast Date: 05/23/2012
How much rework results from poor requirements in your organization? Forty percent of the development budget is the norm. Yet organizations continue the practices that result in inadequate requirements because "they have always done it this way." Sixty-three percent of software projects are delivered late, over budget, missing required features, or are considered failures according to the Standish Group's CHAOS Manifesto 2011. However, rework can be significantly reduced and the effort reapplied to value-add activities. Join Borland and Invertix to explore the problems with current requirement processes and learn why most organizations continue to miss the mark. We'll also explore the latest innovation and concepts in Requirements Definition & Management, how agile development methods drive waste out of the system when accompanied by optimized RDM techniques, and ways to reduce software development costs and the immediate effect on your project's success by improving the quality of requirements.

| | | | | | Presented by: Beth Parrish, QA Manager, MetLife, and Sugam Srivastava, PMP and Project Manager, Infosys Broadcast Date: 05/24/2012
Today, most organizations are rapidly considering and embarking on the transformation journey of their legacy systems to modern, superior, and more efficient systems. This transformation enables organizations to easily embrace a current and dynamic business environment, better accommodate growing business demands, and deliver better service quality. In this web seminar, speakers Beth Parrish from MetLife Insurance and Sugam Srivastava from Infosys cover details on the impact of QA effectiveness in transformational programs, key learning, and recommendations. You'll also learn how to alight testing to architecture, layered integration, effective reporting and change management, and early and progressive automation.

| | | | | | | | | | | See All On Demand Web Seminars | | | | | | Presented by: Brad Hipp, Senior Manager of Solutions Marketing, Application Lifecycle Management at HP Software Broadcast Date: 04/18/2012
To truly enable business change, IT managers must examine their approach to planning, developing, deploying, and operating software applications. That’s what this web seminar (part one of a four part series) is about—an expanded application lifecycle that accounts for the impacts of recent trends such as Agile, cloud, and mobile. A lifecycle that begins with business strategy and carries through business results, so you can bring on the next generation of applications while better aligning IT efforts with the changing business.

| | | | | | Presented by: Bruce Randall, Director, Product Marketing of Project and Portfolio Management, HP Software Broadcast Date: 04/24/2012
Leading IT organizations have robust processes that enable the delivery of reliable, scalable services. In this web seminar, part 2 in this four part series, we will present Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Center--integrating and unifying portfolio and project managementactivities to support business strategy and metrics, with emphasis on how PPM supports applications developed and delivered in a Hybrid Cloud world.

| | | | | | Presented by: Mughees Minhas, Senior Director Of Product Management, Oracle, and Daniel Schrijver, Senior Principal Product Director, Product Marketing, Oracle Broadcast Date: 05/01/2012
Developing applications involves continual improvement and testing. With more than $4 billion in R&D spending, Oracle has gained invaluable experience in testing and optimizing its products. They’ve integrated this experience into their own application quality management solutions. Attend and interact with Oracle experts as they share the most efficient testing techniques for your Oracle applications and infrastructure components. They demonstrate how to increase testing quality using resources that are already available to you. You'll also learn how to reduce the time and risk of testing Oracle applications and infrastructure products, use replays of real user sessions to increase testing quality, improve testing efficiency by using industry standards and starter kits.

| | | | | | Presented by: Russ Queen, Program Manager in QA, Nordstrom, and Vasudeva Naidu, Client Relationship, Infosys Broadcast Date: 04/24/2012
Risk-based testing helps address the rise in business and technological complexity and the growing amount of applications in testing by prioritizing test cases based on the defined criticality of a function, encouraging impact assessment of an application functionality failure, and increasing testing effectiveness. Despite these benefits, risk-based testing is still used or deployed in a limited manner across organizations. In this web seminar, speakers Russ Queen and Vasudeva Naidu discuss the two most common reasons that limit the adoption of risk-based testing. You’ll also learn in full detail how Infosys addressed these challenges and developed a risk-based testing framework that helps improve quality, time to market, and reduced testing costs.

| | | | | | Presented by: Theresa Lanowitz, Industry Analyst and Founder, voke Inc., and Jim Mondi, Process and Quality Consulting, Cognizant Technology Solutions Broadcast Date: 04/26/2012
Lifecycle virtualization, development testing, and infrastructure test optimization help to deliver inventive ways of solving traditional software development challenges. Today's modern solutions work and can help to alleviate tactical activities and transform organizations of all types to more strategic teams with better technology and business alignment. In particular, as mobile devices and tablets "consumerize" the business application, quality, time-to-market, and costs all need to be optimized relative to the risks of new initiatives. In this web seminar Theresa Lanowitz and James Mondi share examples across industries where strategic quality initiatives have been implemented to drive business outcomes and generate incrementally more business value. This web seminar will help you contextualize the strategies and processes around end-to-end quality with real life experiences and challenges.

| | | | | | Presented by: Ajay Gehani, Vice President of Enterprise-specialized Testing, SunTrust, and Arun Kumar Mishra, Testing Centralization Strategist, Infosys Broadcast Date: 03/29/2012
SunTrust had to find a way to quicken its time to market and reduce test effort, while increasing defect detection during development. They teamed with Infosys to come up with a solution: Implement a progressive test automation process that enabled automation of functional test cases throughout the application development lifecycle. In this event, speakers Ajay Gehani and Arun Kumar Mishra explain the details of this plan and how they leveraged tools like HP QuickTest Professional and Quality Center to reduce test effort, improve defect detection, and increase time to market. You'll learn steps to incorporate a progressive test automation process in your software testing lifecycle.

| | | | | | Presented by: Matt Nunn, Senior Product Manager for Visual Studio, Microsoft Broadcast Date: 03/20/2012
Visual Studio 11 Beta brings much more to the table than just enhanced testing tools. It introduces a whole new range of agile tool support for all members of the team. Now testers and other team members who do not spend their time writing code (business analysts, product owners, ScrumMasters, agile testers, stakeholders, etc.) can be even more integrated into the process of developing software, from testing requirements to providing feedback, and participating with the whole team from planning to execution. In this event, get a detailed look into Visual Studio 11 Beta's new exploratory testing tools, enhancements to IntelliTrace, new debugging and diagnostic tools, and tools that ensure the highest quality code possible is built.

| | | | | | Presented by: Edwin "Ed" J. Reynolds, Director of Consulting Services, ALP International Broadcast Date: 02/28/2012
Developers and testers usually work in related but divided teams and use tools that aren't integrated and don't communicate well when issues are discovered. The result is erratic code quality dependent on the individual developer with a high escaped-bug rate, frequent regressions, and performance problems. Microsoft's application lifecycle management toolset—which includes Microsoft Test Manager, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010—have introduced capabilities that enable testers and developers to work together at a new, more-productive level of collaboration. Attend this event to learn how implementing these tools promises higher software quality through fewer bugs and less regression tests, faster time-to-market by addressing defect root cause quickly and accurately, and enhances work relationships that foster a new level of respect between testers and their development peers.

| | | | | | Presented by: Byron Goodman, National Director of Quality Assurance, Neudesic Broadcast Date: 02/14/2012
The feature-rich capabilities of coded UI tests in Visual Studio 2010 may be overwhelming, but there are practices you can employ to simplify the code, resulting in easy-to-read and maintainable automated tests. Join us to learn how Neudesic's National Director of Quality Assurance Byron Goodman simplifies test scripting by implementing test classes that use a different pattern than the standard option offered in Visual Studio 2010, constructs a UI map with simplified navigation, and which logging techniques to use to enable more freedom for long-term data gathering and sharing. If you're responsible for implementing a framework automated testing solution, interested in simplifying your test scripts, and want to improve your tests asset reliability and usability, then be sure to join this web seminar.

| | | | | | Presented by: Ian Holdsworth, Senior Visual Studio Consultant, Testhouse Broadcast Date: 02/02/2012
A frequent reaction to poorly performing applications is to add additional infrastructure, increase bandwidth, or make architectural changes, which can be expensive and ultimately may fail to solve the problem. Alternatively, a company may try but fail to identify their performance bottlenecks due to lack of expertise, use of unsuitable test tools, test data, or simply because of its environments. Testhouse specializes in performance testing and has executed numerous projects based on its performance testing methodologies across various technologies using Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010. In this web seminar, Testhouse's Senior Visual Studio Consultant Ian Holdsworth shares the company's successful load and performance test methodologies.

| | | | | | Presented by: Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought-leader and Chief Technologist at PerfTestPlus, and Christian Romero, Senior Performance Consultant at Hexaware Technologies Broadcast Date: 01/31/2012
Let's not kid ourselves. Conducting performance testing, and conducting it well, is difficult. And most of us are stuck running performance tests in suboptimal environments, from which results are often difficult to extrapolate in terms of predicting the behavior of a future production environment. No one can afford to run effective performance tests this way, especially if you're faced with timeline and budgetary constraints. Join Scott Barber, an internationally recognized thought-leader in the field of performance testing, and Christian Romero, senior performance consultant for Hexaware Technologies, as they discuss some of the challenges of internally building and maintaining both load generation and performance testing environments. You'll also gain insight on available software in the clouds.

| | | | | | Presented by: Kris Lankford, Principle Consultant, Sirk Technologies, a Microsoft ALM Gold Competency Partner Broadcast Date: 01/17/2012
Do you have the right hardware and resources to properly load test your web sites? Now you have the ability to use only the solutions you need from Microsoft's newest, open-cloud platform, Windows Azure. Combined with Visual Studio 2010, Windows Azure gives you additional ability to create a load testing platform to fit any scale or size. This web seminar offers you the knowledge on how to deploy test agents to Windows Azure "Worker Roles" to create test environments as an extension of Visual Studio 2010. This event is a must attend for QA engineers, developers, and mangers that are interested in leveraging Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure to create the ultimate load testing platform.

| | | | | | Presented by: Adrian Cho, Software Development Manager, IBM Broadcast Date: 12/14/2011
What is the one thing that can truly enable individuals and teams to collaborate and innovate with agility? Technology companies claim that you need the latest and greatest tools while consultants say you need a rigid process of best practices. These things will make a difference but they are useless without a culture that promotes the right principles. Much can be learned from successful teams in other domains such as jazz, basketball, and even special forces military units. In all of these fields, multi-disciplined teams integrate innovative contributions from highly capable individuals into group and individual behaviors. In this web seminar, jazz musician and IBM software development manager Adrian Cho describes the ways in which software developers can learn from jazz musicians and great performers in other domains.

| | | | | | Presented by: James Whittaker, Test Engineering Director, Google Broadcast Date: 12/06/2011
James Whittaker unveils the secret sauce of Google's test practices in this web seminar. From developer-oriented unit testing, to the mystical role of the software engineer in test, and to the role of test engineer that even a lot of Googlers don't fully comprehend, no testing topic is off limits in this event. James shares how Google achieves high quality in a developer-centric company where the developer-to-tester ratio is incredibly lopsided. He then explores how Google executes with a test organization that is independent of product teams. At the end of the session, James previews the tools Google testers are releasing to the open source community and what all this can mean for testing in your organization.

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