Posts Tagged 'How To'

How To Convince Your Boss To Send You To InflectraCON 2022 | A Cheat Sheet

January 25, 2022

If you are like me, you probably have a number of conferences that you'd love to go to but are put off by the idea of having to plead your case with your boss. It is daunting, it takes time to research the benefits of attending, it is a distraction from your day job, it is yet another email you need to write. ARGH....  Long story short - you can not be bothered. 

Enter Thea from InflectraCON and her ready-made email template you can use to justify why it is an excellent idea to send you to InflectraCON - Inflectra's global user conference taking place in Washington DC on May 5-6, 2022.

I know you are busy, so let's dive in! 

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How to Use Boards in Spira for Your Agile Ceremonies

September 28, 2021

This is Part 3 of the larger paper on Good Agile Product Backlog by Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan, Enterprise Agile Evangelist, Inflectra.

Introduction

Readers are recommended to review my earlier blogs in this series for context and to understand this blog better. The first part of the series focused on demystifying a good agile product backlog - emphasizing how a good product backlog promotes stakeholder alignment. The second part of the series focused on ensuring alignment between business stakeholders and the delivery team highlighting the need for the refined, risk-adjusted, and prioritized backlog. In this final blog of the trilogy, I will review the use of the planning and tracking boards in the four agile ceremonies.

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How To Leverage #TestBowl 2021 To Crowd-Test Your App

November 16, 2020

If you have a new app, software, or website that is ready for testing, we have a free and fun way to help you out. As part of the Inflectra-run software testing competition - #TestBowl, we are offering to crowd-test your software for free! 

All you need to do is apply before February 1, 2021!

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Webinar Recap: How To Test MS Dynamics Unified Service Desk Through The UI

June 26, 2020

On June 24th, 2020, Denis Markovtsev hosted the last live webinar in the MS Dynamics series called: How To Test MS Dynamics Unified Service Desk Through The UI Like A Pro. The webinar focused on the following learning objectives: 

  • How to start testing Unified Service Desk with Rapise,
  • How to launch Unified Service Desk from an automated test
  • How to automate navigation within Unified Service Desk
  • How to record a test case and make it a part of the framework for regular execution

If you missed the webinar, here are some of the highlights!

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Webinar Recap: How To Test MS Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations

June 1, 2020

On May 27th, 2020, Denis Markovtsev hosted a webinar called: How To Test MS Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations focusing on the following learning objectives: 

  • How to start testing Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations with Rapise
  • How to launch Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations from an automated test
  • How to automate navigation within Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
  • How to record a test case and make it a part of the framework for regular execution.

If you missed the webinar, here are some of the highlights!

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Webinar Recap: How To Leverage A Risk Register To Manage Risks

May 22, 2020

On May 13, 2020, Inflectra's agile champion - Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D. hosted a live webinar in the Risk Management webinar series. This second webinar in the series explored the how-tos of Leveraging a risk register to manage risks in programs and portfolios. 

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

Webinar Agenda:

The webinar covered the following areas: 

  • How to establish the context of risks in projects, programs, and portfolio 
  • A review of the important principles of risks in project delivery 
  • How to differentiate the various elements of a risk register 
  • How to evaluate tools that can be used for managing risks in larger initiatives.
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Webinar Recap: How To Test MS Dynamics 365 for Sales Through The UI

May 4, 2020

On April 29th, 2020, our automation champion - Denis Markovtsev, Ph.D took us on a journey exploring the testing of MS Dynamics 365 for Sales Through the UI.  The webinar focusing on the following how-to's: 

  • Start testing Dynamics 365 for Sales with Rapise
  • Launch Dynamics 365 for Sales from an automated test
  • Automate navigation within Dynamics 365 for Sales
  • Record a test case and make it a part of the framework for regular execution.

If you missed the webinar, here 👇 are some of the highlights!

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Webinar Recap: How To Test MS Dynamics AX through the UI Like A Pro

April 3, 2020

On April 1, 2020 Denis Markovtsev took us on a journey exploring the testing of MS Dynamics AX through the UI focusing on the following learning objectives: 

  • understanding how to start testing Dynamics AX with Rapise,
  • practicing launching Dynamics AX from an automated test
  • automating the navigation within Dynamics AX
  • learning how to record a test case and make it a part of the framework for regular execution. 

If you missed the webinar, here are some of the highlights!

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New Ways To Use Project Management Software for More Efficient Projects

April 1, 2020

Project management software has been around long enough that it’s fairly ubiquitous for businesses of all types. Teams from sales and marketing to manufacturing and software development use project management software to organize the myriad moving parts of business projects. But modern project management software doesn’t stop at tracking projects. Valuable features and reporting built right into today’s PM platforms make it easy for teams to use the software to help them build better processes, save time, and increase profitability across an organization.

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

March 30, 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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Webinar Recap: How To Incorporate Lean & Kanban in Product Lifecycle Management

February 4, 2020

On January 23, 2020 Inflectra hosted a live webinar: How To Incorporate Lean & Kanban in Product Lifecycle Management. If you missed the webinar, here is a recap of the most important take-aways 👇:

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Webinar Recap: How To Write Good User Stories

December 19, 2019

On December 17, 2019 Inflectra and Sriram Rajagopalan hosted a live webinar: How To Write Good User StoriesIf you missed the webinar, here is a recap of the most important take-aways:

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Blog: How To Write Good User Stories

December 19, 2019

In the following blog post, Sriram Rajagopalan - Inflectra's Enterprise Agile Champion explores how-to's of writing good user stories and gives practical recommendations on how to achieve just that.

This blog complements Inflectra's December 17th webinar on the same topic, with the webinar recording available inside. 

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We've Built an AI-Powered Robot for Salesforce with Rapise - A Webinar Recap

December 17, 2018

Our last free webinar of 2018 had an ambitious goal: to use Rapise to build an AI-powered robot that can mine Salesforce contacts from email signatures. The presenter was Inflectra's senior automation architect - Denis Markovtsev who showed us how to design a robot that can read emails from Exchange mailbox, send emails to a third-party Machine Learning powered REST service for contact extraction, and how to create new contacts in Salesforce via the UI.

Some of you may have missed the webinar, so we made a recording for you, which is enclosed.

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How to Create a Data-Driven End-to-End Sales Order Test for Microsoft Dynamics NAV using Rapise

November 19, 2018

Dynamics NAV is all about Purchase and Sales orders. Therefore many end-to-end testing scenarios involve creation of an order at a certain step. Sales Order, for example, requires to fill in customer name and order lines. If there is a need to use different data in different testing scenarios then there is a requirement to make the Sales Order test data-driven. The enclosed video explains how to do just that using Rapise

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9 Easy Steps to Start Automating Software Testing

May 1, 2018

Innovations in technology have become synonymous with business growth and development. Regardless of whether a company specializes in software or application development, all businesses now have some interaction with software or application testing.

Software or application testing involves executing a program or app to find bugs or glitches. Whether creating a new responsive website, building a new mobile application, or developing a new software component, the system must be tested. The rate of software development, in general, and testing in particular, is rising for many enterprises, which has increased the need for more automated software testing. Those pre-scripted software tests can come in handy when a lot of software or applications need testing. Here are nine ways businesses can start automating software testing.

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