May. 30, 2013

"Effective Unit Testing"

Stone Huang, Senior Java Developer and Team Lead at Quote Media Inc.

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Apl. 25, 2013

"The 5 Best Practices of the Modern Meeting"

Balraj Basi, IT Security Compliance Consultant, TELUS Information Security Solutions : Enabling Your Business

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Mar. 28, 2013

"Leveraging Science to Support Critical Decisions on Projects"

Jim Brosseau, Principal, Clarrus Consulting Group

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Feb. 28, 2013

"Process Performance Baselines and Process Performance Models for Software Testing"

Mikhail Pavlov, SQA manager and engineer

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Jan. 31, 2013

"Quality Contracting"

Brig Henry, PEng, CCMP, Contract and Business Management Executive QA Testing and Project Management Consultant

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Nov. 29, 2012

"QA – Positive Communication Messages & Productive Cooperative Mindset"

Jackson Lee, PMP, MBA, MASc, BASc, QA Testing and Project Management Consultant

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Oct. 25, 2012

"Best Practices are Social Practices"

Jim Brosseau, Principal, Clarrus Consulting Group

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Jun. 28, 2012

"Learn About Automation Challenges And How Our Team Overcame Them"

Joana Chis, Team Lead Automation & Carson Wilson, Senior QA Automation, Western Union Business Solutions

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May. 31, 2012

"Selenium in the real world (or where are the tests and how do I run them?)"

Iain Rose, Software Engineer in Test, xMatters

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Apr. 26, 2012

"It's Raid Night! Gamification for Software Test Teams?"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant, PQA

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Mar. 29, 2012

"Performance and Reliability 101"

Brent Cromarty, Senior Performance Engineer, Ping Identity

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Feb. 23, 2012

"The Importance of Single User Performance Testing"

Gihan Madawala, Senior System Engineer, Modular Mining Systems Canada

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Jan. 26, 2012

"Vancouver IT job market 2012: what is the outlook and opportunity?"

Glen Murray & Victoria Atkinson

Nov. 24, 2011

"xBTM: Taking Full Advantage of Exploratory Testing"

Christin Wiedemann, Tester, Trainer, Presenter

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Oct. 27, 2011

"Where ego's collide - How flawed decision-making can sink your project"

Robert Goatham, Principal, Calleam Consulting

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Sep. 29, 2011

"Formal Verification of Real-Time Data Processing of the CERN LHC Beam Loss Monitoring System"

Naghmeh Ghafari, Research Associate, Critical Systems Labs

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May. 26, 2011

Panel Discussion: "What is the biggest challenge that you have faced as a quality practitioner?"

Mike Day, Director of Software Quality Engineering, Ping Identity; Paul Vasak, QA Lead, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers; Robert Goatham, Calleam Consulting

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Apr. 28, 2011

"Performance Testing using HP LoadRunner"

Larry Ng, Technical Manager, Optimus Information

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Mar. 31, 2011

"Cognitive Biases: Can It Really Happen to Me?"

Jim Brosseau, Principal, Clarrus Consulting Group

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Feb. 24, 2011

"Role of Outsourcing: Finding Your Vision"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant, Professional Quality Assurance (PQA)

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Jan. 27, 2011

"Tune the Agile Process using Systems Engineering"

Mike Day, Director of Software Quality Engineering, Ping Identity

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Oct. 28, 2010

"Continuous Testing Improvements in Enterprise Software" &
"All Pairs Testing Methodology"

Roy Budhai, Senior Software Testing Manager, SAP
Amrit Kumar, Software Test Team Lead, SAP

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Jun. 24, 2010

"Project Management Processes (PMI) and Quality Management"

Grace Shi, Project Manager, Coast Capital Savings

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May. 27, 2010

"Analyzing Performance Test Data"

Carles Roch-Cunill, Test Lead for System Performance, McKesson Medical Imaging Group

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Apr. 29, 2010

"Usability 101 Testing Primer"

Elizabeth Snowdon, Business / Web / Usability Analyst, Consultant and Contractor

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Mar. 25, 2010

"Automated Testing of Web Services with SOAPUI"

Paul Vasak, QA Lead and Chris Clarke, Sr. DBA, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

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Jan. 28, 2010

"Inter-cultural Issues in the Workplace"

Jim Brosseau, Principal, Clarrus Consulting Group

Nov. 26, 2009

"Applying Dynamic Content to Quality Courses"

Dan Zrymiak, CSSBB, CMQ/OE, CSQE, IT OpEx Lead, Accenture AUBPOS

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Oct. 29, 2009

"Test Automation: Building Your Business Case"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant, Silverpath Technologies

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Sep. 24, 2009

"Formal Task Management Process Using Group Estimations Based On Time-Boxing"

Gihan B. Madawala, Test Lead, Modular Mining Systems

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Jun. 25, 2009

"Leading and Managing QA Testing Teams - A Panoramic View"

Jackson Lee, MBA, MASc, BASc, QA Testing and Project Management Consultant

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May 28, 2009

"The Benefits of Automation"

Justin Hollander, QA Developer/Analyst, Squirrel Systems of Canada

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Apr. 30, 2009

"The Essence of Performance and Load testing"

Gihan B. Madawala, Test Lead, Modular Mining Systems

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Mar. 29, 2009

"Ways to Deal With Stress in the Current Economic Volatility"

Dr. Yaya de Andrade, Registered psychologist with the B. C. College of Psychologists (#613), and a listee with the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology (# 04667)

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Feb. 26, 2009

"Metrics - Thinking In N-Dimensions"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant, Silverpath Technologies

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Jan. 29, 2009

"Making Health IT a Team Player"

Ken Wong, Senior Systems Analyst, McKesson Medical Imaging Group

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Nov. 27, 2008

"Beyond Agility - Are There Gaps In Our Thinking?"

Robert Goatham, Calleam Consulting

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Oct. 30, 2008

"Capturing Wild Requirements for Testing"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant, Silverpath Technologies

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Sep. 25, 2008

"Maximize Your QA Team's Contribution to Successful Project Delivery"

Grace Shi, PMP, MBA, MEng

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Jun. 26, 2008

"Write Your Quality Story"

Dan Zrymiak, CSSBB, CMQ/OE, CSQE, IT OpEx Lead, Accenture AUBPOS

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May 29, 2008

"Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant, Silverpath Technologies

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Apr. 24, 2008

"Testing the Extreme"

Jay Marino, Eclipsys Corporation

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Apr. 24, 2008

"A Match Made in Heaven", "GO Recruitment"

Raymond To and Maryann Boychuk, Martyne Lacoste, GO RECRUITMENT, Ventyx

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Feb. 28, 2008

"The Value of Web Application Security Testing"

Rodrigo de Carvalho, Rational Technical Specialist, IBM Software Group

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Jan. 31, 2008

"Actually, It IS All About You!"

Jim Brosseau, Principal, Clarrus Consulting Group

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Nov. 29, 2007

"The Day You'll Look Forward to Receiving/Conducting a Quality Audit"

Rob MacNeil, Manager Quality and Regulatory Affairs, McKesson Medical Imaging Group

Oct. 25, 2007

"QA the EA Way. It's in the game because we made sure it was!"

Mike Butler, Matt York, Kayla Kinnunen, Edwin Yiu, Tamara Sciamanna, Electronic Arts (EA)

Sep. 27, 2007

"Sharepoint 101"

Medhat Elmasry, Instructor, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

Jun. 28, 2007

"Patterns in the Decision Engine"

Robert Goatham, Project Manager, IBM

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May 24, 2007

"Quality Attributes Primer"

Jim Brosseau, PMP, Principal, Clarrus Consulting Group

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Apr. 26, 2007

"Borland's Strategy For Quality Management Lifecycle"

Erik Schultz, Senior Solutions Engineer, Borland

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Mar. 29, 2007

"Software Safety: An Oxymoron?"

Ken Wong, Senior System Analyst, McKesson Medical Imaging Group

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Feb. 22, 2007

"How Requirement Management Can Impact Product Quality"

Grace Shi, PMP, MBA, MEng,

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Jan. 25, 2007

"SW Quality Assurance in CMMI"

Josip Pajk, BScEE

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Nov. 30, 2006

"Effective Software Testing - Tools And Strategies For Project Success"

Rodrigo de Carvalho, Rational Technical Sales Specialist, IBM Software Group

Nov. 16, 2006

"A Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas"

Linda Rising, Consultant

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Oct. 26, 2006

"Attacking Code Quality Issues"

D'Arcy Smith, Instructor, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

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Sep. 28, 2006

"Quality Assurance across the Software Development Lifecycle"

Chris Strand, Subject Matter Expert, Compuware

Jun. 29, 2006

"Team Driven Automation Using Commercial And Locally Developed Tools"

Ken Creamore, Senior QA Manager, Simply Accounting Group of Sage Software (Canada)

Download Presentation: Automation-TheGreatHope2.zip, AutomationBuilderforWinrunnerTraining2.zip

May 25, 2006

"Why Safety-critical Software needs more than Software Quality Assurance to Manage Safety Risk"

Jeff Joyce, President and Co-founder, Critical Systems Labs

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Apr. 27, 2006

"Are IBM's New Test Tools Worth Considering?"

Brian Pidcock, Computer Science Technology Instructor, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

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Mar. 30, 2006

"Test automation and metrics in multi-site development environment"

Roy Budhai, Software Testing Manager, Enterprise Reporting Group of Crystal Decisions

Download Presentation: Test Automation and Quality Metrics.zip

Feb. 23, 2006

"Building a test automation system incrementally using Mercury's tools"

John Smith, President, MAR Computer Systems

Jan. 26, 2006

"Software Quality Assurance with VSTS"

John Bristowe, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Canada

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Nov. 24, 2005

"Optimize Your Defect Lifecycle - Philosophy of Resolution"

Trevor Atkins, VP Operations, QA Labs

Download Presentation: QALabs-VANQ.zip

Nov. 3, 2005

"Lessons in Incremental Improvement of a Quality System for Developing Medical Image Management Systems"

Rob MacNeil, Manager of Quality and Regulatory Affairs, McKesson Medical Imaging Group

Download Presentation: Lessons_in_Incremental_Improvement_of_a Quality_System_for_MIMS.zip

Sep. 29, 2005

"Testing of Web Applications: HTTPUnit and JUnit - An Introduction to Open Source Tools"

Jay Marino, IT QA Engineer, CityXpress

Download Presentation: WebAppTestingHTTPUnit.zip

Jun. 23, 2005

"Implementing a prototype keyword library as a first step toward automated testing"

Veronika Smolik and Brian Pidcock, Active Community Solutions (Class Software) and BCIT

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May 26, 2005

"Come Play Project Manager"

Robert Goatham, IT Manager, VCS

Download Presentation: comeplay_project_manager.zip

Apr. 28, 2005

"Rocky Path To Test Automation"

Ken Creamore, Simply Accounting Group of ACCPAC International

Feb. 24, 2005

"Testing Web Services"

Ajay Sidda, CypressLogic Systems

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Jan. 27, 2005

"Establishing a Quality Culture in an Organization"

Lisa Toth, QA Labs

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Nov. 25, 2004

"Problems or Challenges? A look at our shared experiences"

Robert Goatham, and panelists

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Oct. 27, 2004

"Awards Presentation"

Dan Zrymiak

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Sep. 30, 2004

"Quality Is Dead(?)"

Robert Goatham

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Jun. 23, 2004

"Improving Software Quality with Six Sigma"

Dan Zrymiak, Neoteric Technology

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Mar. 31, 2004

"General Automated Test Result Checking with Log File Analysis"

Jamie Andrews, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario

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Feb. 18, 2004

"Testing of UML Driven Systems"

Miroslav Novak, Systems Engineer, Borland Canada

Jan. 13, 2004

"Right Up Front: Strategies for Prioritizing Test Activities"

Jim Brosseau, Clarrus Consulting Group

Download Presentation: Test_Prioritization_Strategies.zip

Oct. 28, 2003

"Automated Build and Test with the .NET Framework"

Mark Allen, Director, Architech, Pangaea Systems

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Sep. 26, 2003

"Advanced Modeling, Model Based Test Generation and Abstract State Machine Language"

Keith Stobie, Test Architect, Microsoft

Download Presentation: Basics_Of_Modelling_ASML_Vancouver.zip