Become A Software Test Expert

Web application testing does not need to be difficult when you have the right knowledge in your hands. I called on my friends to start a series of conversations titled "Web Application Tester Workshop Series, Become A Software Test Expert" In the next 6 weeks you will hear from:

		Create Robust Selenium Tests With PageObjects The Page Object Pattern is a strong and efficient way to create, maintain and reuse test scripts for testing Web applications. PageObjects bring object oriented programming to test scripts. Selenium PageObject is a software and test development pattern to represent Web pages or parts of Web pages. PageObject is an approach to building test scripts that break when the application changes. For Test Case developers and testers, PageObjects brings a component approach to organize test code and avoid having to always focus on the implementation details. In this screencast, Adam Goucher, maintainer of Selenium IDE, who had demonstrated working principles of Selenium in the popular Selenium, You are Doing It Wrong Workshop will discuss and demonstrate PageObjects with Frank Cohen, Founder at PushToTest. Watch The Screencast
		Agile Performance Testing: Managing Software Projects With Agile Methodology When an organization moves to agile software development methodology it becomes easier to forget about agile performance testing. Many organizations depend on PushToTest to educate agile teams on agile load and performance tests. Agile got developers and testers talking to one another. Agile performance testing gets business managers and technical team members communicating. Join Frank Cohen and Todd Bradfute on a discussion on how to implement Agile Performance Testing Register For The Webinar
		Avoid The Complexities of Unmanageable SOA Principles in Large Scale Deployments Today's complex application development processes consists of multiple phases of software development where teams of architects, developers, testers and administrators co-create services for large scale applications which serves millions of users globally. The success of an application largely depends on the tools used to deploy and manage these services.Join Frank Cohen of PushToTest for a conversation with Greg Hoeltzer, Sr. Consultant at TIBCO to discuss the overall state of SOA applications as well as challenges and approaches to service enable existing systems for large scale high-volume deployments. Watch the Screencast
		Where Agile Testing and Test Management Collide When organizations adopt pure agile testing, many forms of testing - including load and performance testing, stress testing, and integration testing - can get lost. In this live webinar, Frank Cohen, Keith Cook and Sanjay Zalavadia will discuss a new testing approach that will change your world view on how you do testing today Watch The Screencast
		Selenium, You Are Doing It Wrong! In this live webinar, Adam Goucher and Frank Cohen discuss Selenium adoption in the enterprise: Selenium best practices, Selenium infrastructure, and the evolution of Selenium IDE and RC. Adam demonstrates what teams are doing wrong when it comes to using Selenium for browser automation. Watch The Screencast
		Outsourcing Your Test Projects: The Near Shore Advantage In this live webinar, Frank Cohen, of PushToTest and William Martinez and Juan Esteban, Senior Quality Assurance leads from the Avantica Group discuss global and near shore services for functional testing, load and performance testing, and on-going service delivery (SLA) compliance monitoring. Watch The Screencast
		Open Source Adoption in Enterprise IT: How Maturity drives Innovation In this live webinar, Andrew Aitken, of Olliance group and Frank Cohen, of PushToTest discuss ways to define, measure and analyze ways to bring open source innovation into your organization. You will learn how to strategize and leverage open source software to the benefit of your organization. Watch The Screencast Now
		The Automated Tester Speaks on Selenium Join Frank Cohen for a conversation with David Burns, a world expert at Selenium testing. David's testing experience led him to write “Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools” a new comprehensive guide to creating automated tests using a Web browser and Selenium. David Burns is Senior Developer at Mozilla, and chief contributor of “The Automated Tester.” In this conversation David will discuss the most effective test automation techniques and strategy for using Selenium, including dozens of practical tips on how to accelerate Selenium and test automation adoption in organizations. Watch The Screencast Now
		Avoiding Test Gridlock Using Test Management Testing Rich Internet Applications (RIA, using Ajax, Flex, and Flash) often requires a combination of manual and automated testing. The number of test cases grows dramatically. Just seeing your test coverage, test results, and test risks become increasingly difficult. Test Management is a category of tools to help organize and understand the overall testing effort. In this live Webinar, Manish Mathuria, of QMetry and Frank Cohen of PushToTest discuss successful ways to manage tests within your organization. You will learn how to evaluate test management tools and processes. Watch The Screencast Now
		Can Test Suite Authoring Be Fun and Easy? Web Services using SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, Flex, and Ajax challenge testers everyday: Interface definitions are often wrong, services need to be tested continuously for SLA compliance, and operating environment differences add complexity to tests. The soapUI Open Source Test tool removes complexity and makes test suite authoring fun and easy. In this live Webinar, Niclas Reimertz and Ole Lensmar of Eviware and Frank Cohen of PushToTest discuss the real world of Web Services and how to tame them with the soapUI test authoring tool. Watch The Screencast Now
		An Unexpected Way To Put The Cloud To Work For You The idea of Cloud Computing - where scalability is limitless and automatic, and users/groups are billed for their use as it happens - is marvelous. But, there is nothing quite like seeing and holding your server equipment behind your firewall. New open source solutions for building private Clouds emerges from Eucalyptus Software. Brady Murray of Eucalyptus and Frank Cohen of PushToTest will discuss the emerging types of private Clouds, how hybrid Clouds adapt to Business Service Management (BSM,) load testing, and production monitoring. Watch The Screencast Now.
		What Goes Wrong In Ajax Testing, And How To Solve These Problems Narayan Raman, inventor of the Sahi open source test tool and founder at Tyto Software, knows more about Javascript in Ajax applications than anyone else I have met. The Sahi test tool is a winner for functional testing of Web applications and Rich Internet Applications (RIA, using Ajax, Flex, and Flash.) Narayan and Frank will discuss the things that typically go wrong when creating test scripts for Ajax applications and how to work around the problems. Watch The Screencast Now
		Selenium Load Testing and Monitoring Workshop Frank Cohen, Founder of PushToTest, Author of FastSOA, has been practising Selenium for the last three years. Through his speaking, writing and consulting, Frank Cohen is the expert that information technology professionals and enterprises go to when they need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Modern Internet Applications (RIA, Ajax, Flex/Flash,) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,) and Web services. Frank is Founder of PushToTest, the open-source test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source project. PushToTest customers include Ford, Sprint, Tribal DDB, Pepsi, and dozens of global enterprises. Frank is the author of several books, including FastSOA, the way to use native XML technology to build scalable service oriented architecture, and Java Testing and Design. For the past 25 years he has developed and marketed some of the software industry's most successful products, including Norton Utilities for the Macintosh, Stacker, and SoftWindows. Watch The Screencast Now
		9 Tips To Encourage Collaborative Testing Lanette Creamer is popular in the QA blogosphere under the pen-name Testy Redhead. Her 10 years in the software industry, including her current role as Sr. Consultant for Sogeti and formerly with Adobe, makes her a cheerleader to the tester community. She gave an outstanding presentation titled 9 Tips To Encourage Collaborative Testing at STPCon last month. Lanette and Frank Cohen will discuss practicle ways for testers to show leadership, get raises, and improve the reliability of the applications their organizations launch. Watch The Screencast Now.
		Solving Database And Application Server Performance Bottlenecks Automated application performance management (APM) tools and methodology for solving performance bottlenecks in modern Internet applications is great. Many times we need to rapidly identify the location of a bottleneck: Is it in the application server, database server, or load balancer? Ron Warshawsky built Enteros to provide the knowledge, best practices, and expertise to use Business Performance Optimization (BPO) technology in your organization. Ron Warshawsky and Frank Cohen of PushToTest discuss the best tools, methodology, and best practices to identify and solve performance problems. Watch The Screencast Now.
		Moving Data Storage Into The Cloud Rob Schneider is the go-to-guy for organizations needing to design the architecture of a new system all the way to training the team members on how to build and test it. Rob is founder of Think88 and co-founder at WiseClouds, the experts at building solutions using Cloud Computing technology. Rob will talk about the risks and benefits of using Amazon S3 services for cloud-based storage. Watch The Screencast Now.