Pre-Conference Training

Enhance your conference experience by attending one of our pre-conference training classes. Taught by industry leaders with years of practical experience, combining training and the conference is the best way to maximize your learning experience.

*NOTE: Training classes at STARCANADA can also be attended without a full conference registration by visiting SQETraining.com.

Agile Tester Certification - IC Agile (2-day)

Rob Sabourin

Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Rob Sabourin

Discover how testing is implemented in different in agile environments
Learn about user stories and how to test them
Explore key agile testing practices—ATDD, BDD, TDD, and ET
Examine technical and team skills you need for success
Recognize the main agile testing challenges and how to address them

Agile software practices are being employed within many development organizations worldwide. More and more test teams and testers are participating in agile projects or are embedded within agile teams.

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Requirements-based Testing Workshop (3-day)

Richard Bender

Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Richard Bender

If your testing efforts are not achieving the payback you and your organization expect, this course is for you. Requirements-Based Testing (RBT) delivers a proven, rigorous approach for designing a consistent and repeatable set of highly optimized test cases. Companies employing RBT practices have achieved twice the requirements coverage with only half the tests they previously maintained.

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Fundamentals of Agile Certification (2-day)

Jeff Payne

Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Jeff Payne

Fundamentals of Agile Certification will present a roadmap for how to get started with agile along with practical advice. It will introduce you to agile software development concepts and teach you how to make them work. You will learn what agile is all about, why agile works, and how to effectively plan and develop software using agile principles. A running case study allows you to apply the techniques you are learning as you go through the course.

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Software Tester Certification—Foundation Level (3-day)

Claire Lohr

Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Claire Lohr

Are you looking for an internationally recognized certification in software testing? Delivered by top experts in the testing industry, Software Tester Certification—Foundation Level is an accredited training course to prepare you for the ISTQB® Certified Tester—Foundation Level exam. ISTQB® is the only internationally accepted certification for software testing, accredited through its network of national boards. The ISTQB®, a non-proprietary organization, has granted more than 200,000 certifications in more than 70 countries around the world.

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Using Visual Studio® to Improve Software Quality (3-day)

Anna Russo

Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Anna Russo

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to use the latest testing tools provided by the Visual Studio® family of tools to improve their software quality. Test case creation and management will be covered, as well as test execution and automation practices. Creating and managing virtual lab environments using Visual Studio Lab Management will be discussed within the context of test planning and execution. By the end of the course, students are equipped to begin planning the implementation of Visual Studio® 2012 and Team Foundation Service 2012 for improving testing practices within their organizations.

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