Just in Time Testing Matinée 2 with Rob Sabourin

The AST is pleased to bring back Rob Sabourin’s Just in Time Testing Matinée:

Overview

Turbulent development projects experience requirements change almost daily. Keeping your testing effort on track whilst reacting to fast-changing priorities, technologies, and user needs can often seem nearly impossible.

Just-in-Time (JIT) Testing: Workflow, organisation and ‘getting things done’ is a highly interactive learning experience that provides you with effective techniques to implement software testing in chaotic environments. You will learn how practical dynamic test planning and scheduling along with exploratory, scripted, automated and performance testing can be successfully and systematically implemented in many different contexts.

This course focuses on real techniques applied to real projects; the approaches discussed have been applied to many different software projects. Agile, Iterative or Waterfall development environments have all benefited from JIT testing to help get things done. Companies purchasing commercial off the shelf (COTS) applications have tested with JIT Testing techniques.

Real examples demonstrate how JIT testing either replaces or complements more traditional approaches. Numerous examples are drawn from industry sectors such as insurance, banking, telecommunications and medical.

Learning topics include test planning and organisation techniques, how to focus testing, exploratory testing, tracking, scheduling, and triage.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for anyone who works in fast-paced development environments, including test analysts, test managers, software developers and all software managers.

Format

The Just in Time Testing Matinée will be delivered over a four-week period. There are sessions each Saturday and Sunday from October 16th to November 7th, 2021. Weekend sessions will be from 8am GMT to 11am GMT, with an optional session on Wednesdays at 5pm GMT.

Delegates will have weekend sessions composed of half day morning workshops each Saturday and Sunday. A take home assignment, (individually or by small groups), will be assigned between weekend sessions.

A one hour meet up is available each Wednesday during the course. This gives delegates a chance to discuss questions and concerns with the instructors.

Rob Sabourin will carefully select examples and case studies based on delegates specific context and areas of concern. Rob blends elements of business, technology, organization, and cultural factors addressing issues with real world examples and case studies.

Electronic copies of all examples and training materials are made available to delegates.

This workshop is aimed at European timezones. We expect to have additional workshops in other timezones in the near future. You can register now, or scroll down to learn more!

Dates

• October 16th to November 7th
• Saturday and Sunday from 8am GMT to 11am GMT,
• Wednesday with an optional session on at 5pm GMT.

Prerequisites

None – but some testing or development experience is a plus.

Learning Objectives

In this course you will learn how to:

Test turbulent projects that have changing, few, or no written requirements

• Generate a wide variety of relevant in scope test ideas
• Conduct testing “triage” to focus on important bugs faster
• Learn to plan and implement testing in a dynamic, unpredictable world
• Practise session-based testing
• Find important bugs quickly
• Adapt testing based on what you learn
• Gain the confidence you need to succeed
• Learn to blend exploratory, scripted, and automated testing
• And much more

Who Should Join?

• Anyone who works in fast-paced development environments.
• Anyone who works in fast-pace test analysts, test managers, software developers and all software managers.
• Anyone who wants to learn to plan and implement testing in a dynamic, unpredictable world.
• Anyone who wants to learn to blend exploratory, scripted, and automated testing.

Why should I Join?

Just-in-Time (JIT) Testing: Workflow, organisation and ‘getting things done’ is a highly interactive learning experience that provides you with effective techniques to implement software testing in chaotic environments. You will learn how practical dynamic test planning and scheduling along with exploratory, scripted, automated and performance testing can be successfully and systematically implemented in many different contexts.

This course focuses on real techniques applied to real projects; the approaches discussed have been applied to many different software projects. Agile, Iterative or Waterfall development environments have all benefited from JIT testing to help get things done. Companies purchasing commercial off the shelf (COTS) applications have tested with JIT Testing techniques.

Real examples demonstrate how JIT testing either replaces or complements more traditional approaches. Numerous examples are drawn from industry sectors such as insurance, banking, telecommunications and medical.

About Rob Sabourin

Robert Sabourin, P. Eng.

Robert Sabourin has more than thirty-nine years of management experience, leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Robert has managed, trained, mentored, and coached thousands of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization. The author of I am a Bug! the popular software testing children’s book, Robert is an adjunct professor of Software Engineering at McGill University. Robert is the principal consultant (&president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc.

How much does it cost and how do I Join?