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STARWEST 2018 - Pre-Conference Training Certification

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. Explore all of our conference plus training/certification packages and discounts on the Pricing and Ways to Save page.

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Sunday, September 30

Foundations of DevOps—ICAgile Certification (2-Day)

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Monday, October 1, 2018 - 5:00pm

DevOps combines development, testing, and operations and includes continuous integration, automated testing, continuous delivery, and rapid deployment practices. Because DevOps practices require confidence in nearly all changes, automated testing is an essential ingredient that is integrated into the process and relied upon for enforcement of quality gates and to ensure overall delivery quality. This two-day course will teach you how to avoid the common mistakes of DevOps implementations and to leverage DevOps best practices. Test professionals, operations...

Mobile Application Testing (2-Day)

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Monday, October 1, 2018 - 5:00pm

Many testers attempt to apply what they know to mobile testing, and while that may work for some functional testing, it often leaves many critical features untested. Critical errors that go untested can mean a swift end to a mobile application. Learning how to identify common issues in mobile applications and how to test the unique aspects of a mobile application is the only way to be truly successful. This two-day course will cover usability across multiple platforms and resolutions, network and security testing, creating application unit tests, mobile UI...

Python® for Testers (2-Day)

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Monday, October 1, 2018 - 5:00pm
This is a course for testers who are frustrated by the laborious and manual work that makes up day-to-day test work, anyone who has tried or wants to try scripting and programming in order to help them focus more on the sapient test activities and let the computer do the repetitive work. During the course we will work with a strong focus on practical knowledge and learning by doing with much hands-on coding. This so that attendees can work independently with Python after the course. A large amount of exercises are built to give the opportunity to build simple but...

Performance, Load, and Stress Testing (2-Day)

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Monday, October 1, 2018 - 5:00pm

Designed for system testers, system designers, system tuners, software engineers, QA professionals, and project leaders, this course provides an introduction to the complexities of software performance testing and delivers testing skills that participants can immediately apply back on the job.

Security Testing for Test Professionals (2-Day)

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Monday, October 1, 2018 - 5:00pm

Explore security testing in an interactive workshop setting. This course is appropriate for software development and testing professionals who want to begin doing security testing as part of their assurance activities. 

Software Tester Certification—Foundation Level (3–Day)

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 5:00pm

Accredited training for the ISTQB® Certified Tester—Foundation Level (CTFL) certification, aligned to the new 2018 syllabus. ISTQB is the only internationally accepted certification for software testing and has granted more than 500,000 certifications in more than 110 countries around the world. In this three-day course, learn what it takes to be a successful software tester and learn about the relationship of testing to development, test levels, black-box methods, white-box testing, experienced-based testing, and more. This course is appropriate for...

Real-World Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio® (3–Day)

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 5:00pm

Gain real world software testing techniques and technical skills using the latest Microsoft Test Manager 2017®, Visual Studio 2017®, and Team Foundation Server 2017® tools. This hands-on course covers manual testing features such as test case management, execution and reporting, and how Visual Studio® makes these processes powerful and organized. You will also learn about the newly released Visual Studio® Web Test Manager and be introduced to automated testing with Visual Studio®.

Agile Test Automation—ICAgile (2-Day)—SOLD OUT

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Monday, October 1, 2018 - 5:00pm

Explore the many ways automation supports agile testing in this two-day course with real-world, vendor-neutral examples of agile test automation approaches and tools. In addition, successful attendees are awarded the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Test Automation (ICP-ATA).

Agile Tester Certification (2-Day)

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Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 8:30am to Monday, October 1, 2018 - 5:00pm

Agile software practices are being employed within many development organizations worldwide, and as a result, many testers struggle to understand the agile development process and their place in it. In Agile Tester Certification, both novice and experienced testers learn the fundamentals of agile development, the role of the tester in the agile team, and the agile testing processes. Learn technical and team skills testers need for success in the world of agile development, as well as the techniques of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-Driven...