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SoftEd Update
February 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE...
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UPCOMING TRAINING COURSES...
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SKILLS CRISIS
- Solving Your Skills Crisis
MASTERCLASS - Advanced Test Analyst (ISTQB
Advanced) with Rex Black
MASTERCLASS - Test Automation the
Smart Way
STANZ PREVIEW - All you want to know about Software Testing
USEFUL ARTICLES - Seven
Truths about Peer Reviews
TIPS AND TRICKS -
Software Requirements Templates and Examples
HANDY TOOL -
Several useful utilities for .NET developers, including .NET
Reflector
iPOD DRAW - How to win an iPod
Download a PDF Course Schedule
SKILLS CRISIS
It’s common knowledge that there’s a global shortage of IT professionals and
many of our customers are talking about a skills shortage, especially in the
areas of Business Analysts, Software Testers and Project Managers for
software projects. The question is what to about it. At a personal level,
it’s a great time to invest in developing your own skills and increasing
your value within your own organisation. For managers of teams, it’s more
problematic …to staff, the grass always appears greener somewhere else. What
can be done in a market where jobs outnumber people? Well, as Terry Shubkin,
head of account and service delivery management at Unisys NZ, recently said
…”employers need to develop tailored, progressive career paths within their
companies” (Dom Post, 4 Feb). He’s right! The key, I believe, is to
demonstrate to staff that you are interested in helping them grow. Career
paths coupled with training events are the way to demonstrate and get
commitment.
Please contact
us if there’s a specific training need you’d like to address and we’ll
tailor a plan to suit you and your team.
Martyn Jones (Managing Director)
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SMALL TEAM LEADERSHIP
18 - 19 February, Auckland
20 - 21 February, Wellington
BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING
17 - 19 March, Wellington
31 March - 2 April, Auckland
Martyn Jones
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SDC 2008 - Conference For Business Analysts and Project Managers
At SDC 2008 Soren Lauesen, author of Software Requirements: Styles and
Techniques will deliver a half-day workshop about producing requirements
that match with business objectives. For full detail of Soren’s
workshop in Auckland
and Wellington visit
the sdc web pages at
www.softed.com/sdc
Speakers and sessions include:
Tim Lister, Atlantic Systems Guild (USA)
Thoughts on "Gathering" Requirements
Your Patterns of Project Management
Peopleware 20 Years Later, and It’s Still All About Teams
Soren Lauesen, IT University, Copenhagen (Denmark)
How Do You Design A Good User Interface? A Software Engineering
Perspective
From Demands to Solution: Requirements That Match With Business Objectives
Chris Rupp, SOPHIST Group (Germany)
Knowledge Transfer And Communication In IT Projects
Patterns In Systems Development - How You Avoid Success-impeding Patterns
Of Behaviour in Your Project
SDC CONFERENCE 2008
10 - 11 March, Wellington, InterContinental
11 - 12 March, Auckland, Crowne Plaza
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Tim Lister
Soren Lauesen
Chris Rupp
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MASTERCLASS - Rex Black (USA), President International Software
Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) will personally deliver the first ISTQB Advanced
Test Analyst course in March 2008.
If you want to achieve ISQTB Advanced Level certification (ISTQB
Certified Tester – Advanced Test Analyst), we strongly recommend that you
attend this comprehensive, practical 5 day course covering the relevant
sections of the ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus. The
ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus 2007 is available
here.
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Rex Black
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ADVANCED TEST ANALYST
(ISTQB ADVANCED)
3 - 7 March , Wellington
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ISTQB - Software Testing Advanced Exam Announcement
This exam is expected to be available from the
Australia and New Zealand Testing Board (ANZTB) in May.
Visit the ANZTB website here
"MASTERCLASS - Dorothy Graham (UK)
will deliver "Test Automation the Smart Way"
A one day course in February 2008 in Auckland, Wellington and
Christchurch. Don’t miss this unique
opportunity to learn from one of the world’s leading software testing
experts. Dorothy will explain and show you how to get the most effective
results from any automation tool that you decide to use.
TEST AUTOMATION THE SMART WAY
11 February, Auckland
13 February, Wellington
15 February, ChristchurchRECOMMENDED READING
- Software Test Automation
by Mark Fewster and
Dorothy Graham, Addison Wesley (1999).
The authors describe how to build and implement an automated
testing regime for software development. They present a
detailed account of the principles of automated testing,
practical techniques for designing a good automated testing
regime, and provide advice on choosing and applying off-the-shelf
testing tools to meet specific needs.
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Dorothy Graham
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STANZ PREVIEW - All you want to know about Software Testing
Come to STANZ , the region’s premier event for everyone with an interest in
software testing or software. Get the latest tips and techniques. Attend
keynote addresses and workshops with our International speakers.
Elisabeth Hendrickson (Quality Tree Software, USA) Returning by popular
demand, Elisabeth is internationally recognised as one the leaders in the
Agile testing space.
Erik van Veenendaal (Improve Quality Services, Netherlands), Vice President
ISTQB, author of Testing According to TMap and The Testing Practitioner.
Michael Bolton (DevelopSense, Canada), Top rating speaker at STANZ 2005 and
co-author of the Rapid Software Testing course.
Julie Gardiner (UK), (Grove Consulting, UK) Extensive experience as a marker
for the ISEB Practitioner Certification and committee member for the British
Computer Society’s Specialist Group in Software Testing and received the
Best presentation award at STAREast 2005 and Best tutorial award at EuroSTAR
2006. First time in New Zealand!
USEFUL ARTICLES -
Seven Truths about Peer Reviews
In this succinct article, Karl Wiegers highlights the necessity of
conducting Peer Reviews to achieve a quality outcome.
Click here
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TIPS AND TRICKS -
Software Requirements Templates and Examples
Soren Lauesen, speaker at SDC 2008 offers you, as
an added extra for those who attend this session a booklet of templates and
examples. There’s over 70 pages of rich, useful information. You can view a
sample of the booklet
here
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HANDY TOOLS -
Several useful utilities for .NET developers, including .NET
Reflector
The latter allows you to examine the contents of
any .NET assembly and review the code that it contains
(reverse engineering the code to one of several languages
including C# and VB.NET). In particular, the internal .NET
assemblies can be inspected in this way, helping to track
down obscure behaviour. Visit
Lutz Roeder's
Programming .NET
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iPOD DRAW - Each quarter
someone will win an iPod!
Every person who attends a Software Education course during each quarter will go into a draw to win an iPod. Use promotion code NKW018 when you register to
enter the draw. Winners will be notified by email and announced in the
newsletter following each draw.
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