ISTQB User Group Meeting

Session Overview

Testing in Agile Team Environment

As a QA professional, I have worked in both traditional and Agile development team with a QA background. I understand my new responsibilities to deliver value to the customer sooner and with high quality and less difficulty. The core principle of the Agile team is to build quality in to the product. On other hand, to develop with test based approach. Agile team are highly cross functional, whole-team thinking approach and works in shorter sprint to build, test and integrate continuously, so that quality can be built in to the product.

Address/ Time:

Microsoft Canada Head Office

1950 Meadowvale Boulevard
Mississauga, ON L5N
Canada

Thursday, September 12, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Register soon as seats are limited.

Why Should I Attend?
As more and more organizations are adopting to Agile approach from traditional Waterfall approach, it has become very important to understand how Agile team works and delivers together in a shorter sprint cycle with customer and quality in mind.

The International Software Testing and Qualifications board (ISTQB) also understands the significance of the Agile approach and are working towards implementing Agile Examination to certify as Certified Agile Tester.

Speaker Biography

Sammy Kolluru brings rich experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance with proven track record of leadership and commitment to delivering quality software with his unique perspective: effectiveness, efficiency, measurement, visibility. 

Sammy joined CSTB as Executive Board Member in January 2010 and ISTQB as Agile Working Group member in 2012. He also provides his expertise as Sr. Analyst, Quality Assurance for Oracle Inc. Prior to this position, Sammy worked at Sitel Corporation and Dell Canada Inc.

Sammy holds PG Diploma certificate in Business Management from George Brown College and Bachelors degree in Engineering from Bangalore University. He also holds Diploma in Software Engineering and is certified as Certified Tester-Foundation level (CTFL).

Sammy publishes his blog “Software Quality Matters” at http://www.istqbcourses.ca/featured-blogs.html

2000 software testers are now certified by the CSTB in Canada

The Canadian Software Testing Board (CSTB), a leader in software testing certification in Canada, is excited to announce that it has certified its 2000th software tester in Canada, including Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), Certified Tester Advanced Level- Technical Test Analyst (CTAL-TTA), Certified Tester Advanced Level- Test Analyst (CTAL-TA) and Certified Tester Advanced Level- Test Manager (CTAL-TM).

CSTB certified software testers are being recognized as the most successful software testers in Canada because the practical certification scheme, focuses on the software testing knowledge and skills that software testers need every day.

The CSTB was founded on January 12, 2007 offering ISTQB certification exams in English. On January 15, 2008 the CSTB introduced certification exams in French. Since then, candidates have an option to register for certification exams in either English or French.

In a survey conducted by the ASTQB (American Software Testing Qualifications Board), 89% of the software testers that took the survey indicated that they are more valuable to their organization since receiving their first ISTQB software testing certification.  83% of the software testers also indicated they are more systematic in their testing.

An evening with the Software Testing Experts sponsored by Sela Canada and Microsoft Canada

Sela Canada, an ISTQB accredited training provider and Microsoft Canada sponsored an open event  at Microsoft headquarters in Mississauga, ON. This event  featured " Requirements-Based Testing including Cause-Effect Graphing" by Gary Mogyorodi, President of The Canadian Software Testing Board .

I, as an Executive CSTB Board Member and Raymond Rivest, Senior Advisor at CRIM were present in the Expert panel. I presented the benefits and importance of the ISTQB and CSTB certification and also introduced CSTB social media activities to about 100 audiences. This event was also telecasted live on www.istbbcourses.ca.

Eran Barlev, Director of Sela Canada and Jody Mooney, Executive CSTB Board Member also participated in this event.

This event covered following topics:

• The 12 point Requirements-Based Testing (RBT) process.
• How the RBT process stabilizes the completeness of the specifications early in the development    process.
• The two components of RBT, Verification and Validation including a verification technique called Ambiguity Reviews to drive out ambiguities from requirements.
• Tools to translate Cause-Effect Graphs into logical test cases and evaluate previously existing test libraries to cover the problem description. 
• Gaining perspective of this calibre will help you be an indispensable resource in the software testing process

For more information and pictures, please visit  http://www.istqbcourses.ca/2012-mar.html

ISTQB® Software testing certifications exceed 200,000

ISTQB® announces that as of Dec 31, 2011 more than 200,000 software testing certifications have been issued world-wide.

ISTQB® would like to congratulate to all the stakeholders that have been involved in this achievement, making ISTQB® the world leader, with certifications issued in more than 70 countries.

The full press release can be found at http://www.istqb.org/newsevents/news/news-2012.html

CSTB launched its new website

The CSTB (Canadian Software Testing Board) is the Canadian national branch of the ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board). As such, it advocates education and examination as a practical means to excel in the software testing field. The CSTB is one of many national boards participating in the ISTQB.

During the CSTB bi-monthly meeting  held at the CSTB office in Toronto on 19th March, 2012, the board of directors unanimously approved the new website and is released to the public. The new website address remains unchanged as www.cstb.ca.   The new website has been upgraded to include new functionalities and the ease of access for information's. 

The transition to the new website should be relatively transparent to the testing community . All the previously existing information is still available to the public.

Key features of the new website:

• More professional looking website and improved site organization to handle both current and future  information's.
• Improved user-friendly site design,  graphic  design and navigation to schedule and register for an exam.
• More information about the  CSTB and its ongoing social media activities in the software testing community.
• One stop shop for all the questions related  to scheduling and registering for an exams.
• Easy access to exam information's, ISTQB training providers, ISTQB syllabi, glossary and related links.