Archive for March 2020

Webinar Recap: How To Accelerate Software Testing, Validation & Compliance Of Your Medical Trials

March 30th, 2020

On March 25 2020, Inflectra's Adam Sandman headlined a live webinar called: How To Accelerate Software Testing, Validation & Compliance Of Your Medical Trials. The webinar focuses on compliance with HIPAA and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and discusses how SpiraPlan makes that compliance front and center of your software development and testing initiatives. 

If you missed the webinar, please enjoy this recap, complete with a video recording.

Webinar Agenda:

The webinar covered the following areas: 

  • The urgency around Software Validation & Testing
  • Best practices in Software Validation & Testing
  • SpiraPlan Compliance Features: Electronic Signatures, End-to-End Traceability, Audit Trails.
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Test Automation Training While You Are Teleworking

March 27th, 2020

As we discussed in our blog on Teletesting (testing while teleworking), working from home has its challenges, with difficulties in setting work/home boundaries, avoiding distractions and knowing when to take a break. However teleworking and being at home during a quarantine or lockdown is a perfect time to brush up on your skills and get some training. So, building on our new Rapise Quick Start implementation packages, we are pleased to offer some free training while you are sequestered.

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Webinar Recap: UI Automation 101: Tables, Grids and Trees

March 23rd, 2020

On March 18, 2020, Inflectra's automation champion - Alexey Grinevich, Ph.D. hosted a live webinar in the UI Automation 101 webinar series. This second webinar in the series explored the hows-to of automating tables, grids and trees

If you missed the webinar, please enjoy this recap, complete with a video recording.

Webinar Agenda:

The webinar covered the following areas: 

  • Grids and Tables automation - APIs, recording, playback
  • Trees automation - APIs, recording, playback
  • Useful hints and tricks.
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TeleTesting - 10 Tips for DevOps and Software Testing while Teleworking

March 19th, 2020

During the last couple of weeks, the world has been turned upside down with the onslaught of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. As part of our response plan, we have moved Inflectra to 100% telework to reduce the chance of community transmission. A lot of newspapers and blogs have great tips about how to work remotely and stay sane and be effective. However, we have found there are some specific tips that make things easier for software development teams working remotely - TeleTesting if you wish!

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Webinar Recap: UI Automation 101: Working with Navigation & Menus

March 16th, 2020

On February 19, 2020, Inflectra's automation champion - Alexey Grinevich, Ph.D. hosted the very first live webinar in the UI Automation 101 webinar series. This first webinar looked at ways of automating your navigation and menus. 

If you missed the webinar, please enjoy this recap, complete with a video recording.

Webinar Agenda:

The webinar covered the following areas: 

  • Overview of navigation methods
  • Practical examples of navigation
  • Useful tips and tricks.
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Webinar Recap: Why is Setting a PMO Necessary with the Growth of Agile?

March 13th, 2020

On March 10, 2020 Inflectra and Sriram Rajagopalan hosted a live webinar: Why is Setting a PMO Necessary with the Growth of Agile?

If you missed the webinar, here is a recap blog to catch you up.

WEBINAR TAKEAWAYS:

  • Why have a central body of excellence regardless of delivery framework
  • How to differentiate the various flavors of PMO structure
  • What are the essential characteristics of PMO
  • How to set up a PMO

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We Are In It Together: Compassion and Empathy for Our Conference and Event Partners

March 12th, 2020

One of the strange features of the Coronavirus epidemic is that we are being asked to limit social interaction to prevent the spread of the disease, while at the same time, the anxiety around what is happening is increasing our need to talk to each other and have social interaction. We were inspired by the recent article in the Washington Post - "Compassion in the time of coronavirus" to think about the people we normally work with, that are having a hard time, and try and send some much needed virtual love and support.

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Webinar recap: Spira v6.5 - Portfolios & Oauth Have Arrived

March 9th, 2020

On March 5, 2020 Inflectra hosted a live webinar: Spira v6.5 - Portfolios & Oauth Have Arrived.

If you missed the webinar, here is a recap of the most important take-aways 👇:

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Webinar Recap: Scream For Scrum or Scream At Scrum: What’s Going On?

March 9th, 2020

On February 7, 2020 Inflectra and Sriram Rajagopalan hosted a live webinar: Scream For Scrum or Scream At Scrum: What’s Going On? 

If you missed the webinar, here is a recap blog to catch you up.

WEBINAR TAKEAWAYS:

  • Discover management patterns that sow the seeds of Scrum failure
  • Understand the empirical principles of Scrum and its core values
  • Learn about the patterns of failure in Scrum implementation
  • Identify the team-specific patterns for Scrum success.

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SpiraPlan Brings Harmony to Jira and Azure DevOps

March 5th, 2020

During our InflectraCon conference last year, one of the key themes was Harmony, and how Inflectra's software and products can foster harmony in the software development and testing lifecycle. One of the key ways we do this is by making it easy for teams to work in their favorite tools and have the data be available to other teams seamlessly. Many customers have teams using a combination of different Atlassian Jira instances, Microsoft Azure DevOps instances and other tools. In this article I will be discussing how such heterogeneous environments can benefit from SpiraPlan.

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Testing MS Dynamics Through The UI Like A Pro - A Webinar Series

March 4th, 2020

On March 4th, 2020 Inflectra launched the 4th installment in its famous test automation webinar series series called: Testing MS Dynamics Through The UI Like A Pro. This step 4 webinar series builds on the earlier test automation series’: Test Automation, Demystified and Planet Test Automation: First Steps while also working in parallel with the current UI Automation 101 series.

Testing MS Dynamics Through The UI Like A Pro series aims to help you launch the testing of your MS Dynamics product. We will look at the following how-to's: bootstrap a testing framework and perform essential test automation tasks and organize your teamwork and create tests that are easy to enhance and maintain.

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Webinar Recap: Metrics in the Brand New World of Programs and Portfolios

March 3rd, 2020

On February 18, 2020 Inflectra and Sriram Rajagopalan hosted a live webinar: Scream For Scrum or Scream At Scrum: What’s Going On? 

If you missed the webinar, here is a recap of the webinar.

WEBINAR TAKEAWAYS:

  • Learn how to establish the value of metrics in the program and portfolio
  • Identify the most important principles around metrics
  • Choose the metrics that need to be in place for programs and portfolios
  • Apply and integrate metrics into agile and lean initiatives within programs.

The webinar recording is inside. 

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UI Automation 101 - A Webinar Series

March 2nd, 2020

On February 19th, 2020 Inflectra launched the 3rd installment in its famous test automation webinar series series called: UI Automation 101. This step 3 webinar series builds on the earlier test automation series’ - Test Automation, Demystified and - Planet Test Automation: First Steps. This series aims to strengthen participants' grasp of the major test automation activities and learn the essentials of Test Automation. 

Details are inside!

                                          

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