Analysis expert Christopher Ma provides on overview of the consulting services available from Hawk Ridge Systems. Visit http://www.hawkridgesys.com/services/analysis-consulting/ for more information.
Design Analysis - Planning for Your Next SOLIDWORKS Simulation ProjectHawk Ridge Systems
Have you ever started a SOLIDWORKS Simulation analysis that you thought was pretty straightforward, but after 6 months (including several missed deadlines and scope changes) ended up right back where you started? Well, you aren't alone. One of the main topics we teach in our Analysis Mentoring sessions is how to properly plan your analysis before you start, which will increase your productivity and minimize headaches down the road.
Clamp force is an important factor when designing plastic parts. The Analysis Consulting team at Hawk Ridge Systems worked with Stamco Specialty Tool to identify whether or not a design could be molded, and clamp tonnage was the main goal. Watch the webinar here: http://bit.ly/1BcJa1J
Fantastic Tests - The Crimes of Bad Test DesignWinston Laoh
The document discusses why testing is important and what causes bad tests. Testing provides comfort and confidence by knowing if new code breaks existing functionality. Bad tests have a wide scope so it's unclear what they test, depend on specific orders or system states, are too similar to the product without the same fragility, or are not similar enough to the user experience. The key is for tests to be independent of order or system state and balance similarity to the product with enough differences to reliably fail when bugs are present.
Pushing the Bottleneck: Predicting and Addressing the Next, Next ThingIBM UrbanCode Products
Finding bottlenecks in our software delivery processes is often pretty easy. But once we squash one bottleneck, another team becomes the limiting factor. This presentation looks how bottlenecks work, and how to predict the next bottleneck you'll need to work on.
You want to integrate skilled testing and development work. But how do you accomplish this without developers accidentally subverting the testing process or testers becoming an obstruction? Efficient, deep testing requires “critical distance” from the development process, commitment and planning to build a testable product, dedication to uncovering the truth, responsiveness among team members, and often a skill set that developers alone—or testers alone—do not ordinarily possess. James Bach presents a model—a redesign of the famous Agile Testing Quadrants that distinguished between business vs. technical facing tests and supporting vs. critiquing―that frames these dynamics and helps teams think through the nature of development and testing roles and how they might blend, conflict, or support each other on an Agile project. James includes a brief discussion of the original Agile Testing Quadrants model, which the presenters believe has created much confusion about the role of testing in Agile.
The document provides guidance for managing a team of junior testers. It discusses challenges such as lack of skills and experience in junior testers. It recommends setting clear expectations, providing frequent communication and feedback, ensuring knowledge sharing, and protecting the team to help them succeed. Patience and structure are important, as is repeating key messages, to help junior testers learn and improve. The goal is for the team to work cooperatively toward a common objective.
The document describes a Project Control model based on control theory for solving obstacles through iterative creation of tests and solutions. Boolean logic is used to represent the status of tests and solutions. An error signal drives the creation of additional tests and solutions until all obstacles are resolved when the error equals zero. The process is repeated at each stage and level of a project to systematically solve problems through verification and validation.
The Test Coverage Outline: Your Testing Road MapTechWell
To assist in risk analysis, prioritization of testing, and test reporting (telling your testing story), you need a thorough Test Coverage Outline (TCO)—a road map of your proposed testing activities. By creating a TCO, you can prepare for testing without having to create a giant pile of detailed test cases. Paul Holland says that a comprehensive TCO helps the test team to get buy-in for the overall test strategy very early in the project and is valuable for identifying risk areas, testability issues, and resource constraints. Paul describes how to create a TCO including the use of heuristic-based checklists to help ensure you don’t overlook important elements in your testing. Learn multiple approaches for critical information gathering, the artifacts used as input for creating a TCO, and how you can use a TCO to maintain testing focus. Take back a new, lightweight tool to help you tell the testing story throughout your project.
Design Analysis - Planning for Your Next SOLIDWORKS Simulation ProjectHawk Ridge Systems
Have you ever started a SOLIDWORKS Simulation analysis that you thought was pretty straightforward, but after 6 months (including several missed deadlines and scope changes) ended up right back where you started? Well, you aren't alone. One of the main topics we teach in our Analysis Mentoring sessions is how to properly plan your analysis before you start, which will increase your productivity and minimize headaches down the road.
Clamp force is an important factor when designing plastic parts. The Analysis Consulting team at Hawk Ridge Systems worked with Stamco Specialty Tool to identify whether or not a design could be molded, and clamp tonnage was the main goal. Watch the webinar here: http://bit.ly/1BcJa1J
Fantastic Tests - The Crimes of Bad Test DesignWinston Laoh
The document discusses why testing is important and what causes bad tests. Testing provides comfort and confidence by knowing if new code breaks existing functionality. Bad tests have a wide scope so it's unclear what they test, depend on specific orders or system states, are too similar to the product without the same fragility, or are not similar enough to the user experience. The key is for tests to be independent of order or system state and balance similarity to the product with enough differences to reliably fail when bugs are present.
Pushing the Bottleneck: Predicting and Addressing the Next, Next ThingIBM UrbanCode Products
Finding bottlenecks in our software delivery processes is often pretty easy. But once we squash one bottleneck, another team becomes the limiting factor. This presentation looks how bottlenecks work, and how to predict the next bottleneck you'll need to work on.
You want to integrate skilled testing and development work. But how do you accomplish this without developers accidentally subverting the testing process or testers becoming an obstruction? Efficient, deep testing requires “critical distance” from the development process, commitment and planning to build a testable product, dedication to uncovering the truth, responsiveness among team members, and often a skill set that developers alone—or testers alone—do not ordinarily possess. James Bach presents a model—a redesign of the famous Agile Testing Quadrants that distinguished between business vs. technical facing tests and supporting vs. critiquing―that frames these dynamics and helps teams think through the nature of development and testing roles and how they might blend, conflict, or support each other on an Agile project. James includes a brief discussion of the original Agile Testing Quadrants model, which the presenters believe has created much confusion about the role of testing in Agile.
The document provides guidance for managing a team of junior testers. It discusses challenges such as lack of skills and experience in junior testers. It recommends setting clear expectations, providing frequent communication and feedback, ensuring knowledge sharing, and protecting the team to help them succeed. Patience and structure are important, as is repeating key messages, to help junior testers learn and improve. The goal is for the team to work cooperatively toward a common objective.
The document describes a Project Control model based on control theory for solving obstacles through iterative creation of tests and solutions. Boolean logic is used to represent the status of tests and solutions. An error signal drives the creation of additional tests and solutions until all obstacles are resolved when the error equals zero. The process is repeated at each stage and level of a project to systematically solve problems through verification and validation.
The Test Coverage Outline: Your Testing Road MapTechWell
To assist in risk analysis, prioritization of testing, and test reporting (telling your testing story), you need a thorough Test Coverage Outline (TCO)—a road map of your proposed testing activities. By creating a TCO, you can prepare for testing without having to create a giant pile of detailed test cases. Paul Holland says that a comprehensive TCO helps the test team to get buy-in for the overall test strategy very early in the project and is valuable for identifying risk areas, testability issues, and resource constraints. Paul describes how to create a TCO including the use of heuristic-based checklists to help ensure you don’t overlook important elements in your testing. Learn multiple approaches for critical information gathering, the artifacts used as input for creating a TCO, and how you can use a TCO to maintain testing focus. Take back a new, lightweight tool to help you tell the testing story throughout your project.
This talk sets out the thinking behind the Gerrard Consulting Business Story Method. The slides present background, an overview of the method and introduces the Testela Business tool that supports Gerrard Consulting services.
Michael Bolton - Heuristics: Solving Problems RapidlyTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2008 presentation on Heuristics: Solving Problems Rapidly by Michael Bolton. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Ho Chi Minh City Software Testing Conference January 2015
Software Testing in the Agile World
Website: www.hcmc-stc.org
Author: Nhat Do, Vu Duong
Context-Driven Testing (CDT) rejects the notion of generalized “best practices” that apply to all projects, and instead accepts that different practices work best under different circumstances. The third principle of the seven defined in CDT states that people are the most important part of any project’s context. Less of a focus on processes and tools, with more emphasis on people and their collaboration empowers testers with the freedom to make choices about how best to do their job without following a restrictive plan.
In joining the game of workshop and some theory sharing in slides, you will a better understanding of Context-Driven Testing practices, principles and its benefits as well as know how is a nice Marriage of Agile and Context-Driven Testing.
This document discusses different approaches to accelerated life testing (ALT). It introduces the thought process for selecting an ALT approach, discusses trade-off decisions, and enables selecting the right approach for a given situation. The key approaches discussed are: real-time testing with no constraints; time compression testing using increased usage cycles; applying an acceleration model relating stress to life; step stress testing; degradation testing; and Weibull success testing. Guiding principles are to respect constraints, use real usage conditions, minimize assumptions, and focus on failure mechanisms.
- The speaker proposes 16 "test axioms" that are intended to provide a framework for testing approaches and represent principles that are context-insensitive and self-evidently true.
- The axioms are grouped into three categories: stakeholders, design, and delivery. The speaker argues the axioms can help testers think critically about testing and identify flaws in arguments.
- It is argued that process improvement models are not effective for improving testing because there is no consensus on best practices and processes must be tailored to context. True improvement requires understanding why current approaches are used given the context.
Maelscrum / Business Story Manager OverviewPaul Gerrard
The document provides an overview of the Business Story Method, Story Platform, and Maelscrum tool. It describes how the method is used for requirements analysis, planning, execution and reporting. The Story Platform brings together the Business Story Manager and Maelscrum tools to support the method. Maelscrum allows users to create requirements, stories, scenarios, processes and link them to enable traceability and testing.
Joseph Beale, an automation lead, aims to convince others of the benefits of test automation over manual testing. He argues that automation saves significant time, increases testing capacity, allows for more frequent testing, and helps teams implement continuous integration and delivery. However, some resist automation due to concerns over time, resources, costs and skills. Beale counters that automation pays off with proper planning and teamwork, and that maintaining automated tests is better than the risks of manual testing. He closes by stating that as IT professionals, automation is something teams should embrace.
Erkki Poyhonen - Software Testing - A Users GuideTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2008 presentation on Software Testing - A Users Guide by Erkki Poyhonen. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Gerlof Hoekstra - OMG What Have We Done - EuroSTAR 2013TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2013 presentation on "OMG What Have We Done" by Gerlof Hoekstra.
See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
This document discusses software testing and provides guidance on best practices. It defines software testing as empirically investigating a product to provide stakeholders with quality information. The key aspects of testing discussed are modeling the system, making observations, asking useful questions, using logical reasoning, and taking a process of discovery approach. Testing is distinguished from checking and the importance of test design, exploratory testing, and testability over large automated test suites is emphasized. Credits are given to influential thinkers in the field.
As a CAD manager you are responsible for implementing new software tools and motivating users, but how do you do that when you have to train, implement standards, and deal with everything else? By establishing a CAD proving ground, you can treat your super users like test pilots and build a strong software development environment that benefits your users and your company. The proving-ground concept starts identifying new tools and customization through testing, training, standardization, constant improvement, and broad user adoption. In this class we will challenge you to think about software implementation in a totally different way than you have in the past, but the change will be worth it when you build a powerful proving ground. If you have to develop and/or deploy new software tools, you can’t afford to miss this class.
Neotys organized its first Performance Advisory Council in Scotland, the 14th & 15th of November.
With 15 Load Testing experts from several countries (UK, France, New-Zeland, Germany, USA, Australia, India…) we explored several theme around Load Testing such as DevOps, Shift Right, AI etc.
By discussing around their experience, the methods they used, their data analysis and their interpretation, we created a lot of high-value added content that you can use to discover what will be the future of Load Testing.
You want to know more about this event ? https://www.neotys.com/performance-advisory-council
by Alan Taylor (Innodev)
Test Driven Development is an engineering concept with practices that has great benefit to business. For example, if your business wants to have idealised and revered products, you will have:
- an ability to deliver high quality products which keep up with the latest customer wishes;
- products which are constantly updated with the latest cool features; and
- ability to very quickly resolve any issues that do occur – and they do for even the best organisation
We will share with you why Test Driven Development is a pivotal tool in the fight to be one of those inspiring organisations. We will cover the practices at a high level and go into the outcomes of those practices. We will include not only how the business should benefit directly from them, but also how they provide indirect benefits for the team and the organisation. Every positive has some negatives, whether they are perceived or actual, long term or short term). We will touch on how they are like any form of exercise – they will be hard work at times, but afterwards the results will include fitter, stronger and faster teams able to delivery consistently better results.
As a manager or leader, you will be able to walk away with insight that will enable you to determine how TDD is worth following up in your domain.
As someone within the delivery team, you will leave with deeper understanding of how you, your team and your company can effectively benefit from Test Driven Development.
Why you should stop using the generic term “Technical Debt” and start resolvi...Alex Fedorov
Do you feel like you are accruing all this Technical Debt every week and it slows your whole team down? Do you want to deal with it so badly, but you don’t know where even to start? Did you have “refactoring/rewriting sprints” in the past, and they have failed, and you had to revert?
The first advice is to stop calling it “Technical Debt.” And instead, sit down with your team and figure out the list of specific problems that are causing the most trouble in your software right at this moment. Attack the first problem on the list then only. Repeat on a regular basis.
In this talk, you will learn WHY you should do that, and HOW to do that. Moreover, you are going to be able to apply it tomorrow at your workplace!
by Dave Bales
This presentation aims to raise awareness that default Product Ownership (that uses only ordering and prioritising PBI’s) is not enough to be successful. A higher level of consciousness is required to appreciate the challenges and dynamics of the work at hand. Devising evolutionary strategies to cater for the undercurrents, changing landscape and the opposing dynamics in the product and its backlog, may help to tip the balance in favour of being more successful.
Project dynamics can include:
Releasing a new insurance app to millenials on a smartphone platform. The challenge with this is that more customer testing and an exploratory approach of how milenials think will be required, hence each sprint goal may include working toward a customer testing objective;
A compliance risk project where compliance objectives are static. How those objectives are satisfied is variable, hence an evolving strategy to use an iterative approach is to be considered. The first iteration would be to neutralise the compliance risk, starting with a manual process. Successive iterations would then be run by automating and adding more value;
An integration risk project, where a central framework has to integrate with several other systems. An evolving strategy would focus on setting sprint goals to achieve integration, as well as regression testing objectives to neutralise the integration risk early
Creative Problem Solving for Business - http://metabiz.com.au
Sometimes business owners get caught up in day to day operations and allow opportunities to pass them by. Developing new ways of solving problems can help you identify innovative solutions to save you time and money.
This webinar will introduce quick and easy problem solving techniques that emphasise creative thinking and highlighting opportunity. Topics this interactive webinar will cover:
• Five whys - quick and easy root cause assessment
• Fish bones and other diagrams to create creative solutions
• Using root cause analysis to develop amazing innovation
• How to know if you are thinking inside or outside of the box
About Joseph Ours' Presentation – “Bad Metric – Bad!”
Metrics have always been used in corporate sectors, primarily as a way to gain insight into what is an otherwise invisible world. Organizations blindly adopt a set of metrics as a way of satisfying some process transparency requirement, rarely applying any statistical or scientific thought behind the measures and metrics they establish and interpret. Many metrics do not represent what people believe they do and as a result can lead to erroneous decisions. Joseph looks at some of the common and some of the humorous testing metrics and determines why they are failures. He further discusses the real purpose of metrics, metrics programs and finishes with pitfalls into which you fall.
This document provides an overview of root cause analysis (RCA) and common RCA tools. It discusses the CPAR/SCPAR process for documenting problems, determining root causes, and implementing corrective actions. Three commonly used RCA tools are described: 5 Why's analysis involves repeatedly asking why to drill down to the root cause; affinity diagrams group detailed causes into major categories; and fishbone diagrams illustrate the relationship between causes and effects. The document encourages using the appropriate tool based on the problem complexity and provides examples of applying each tool.
PHX Session #3 - "It Works on My Machine!" Closing the Loop Between Developme...Steve Lange
The document discusses closing the loop between development and testing. It emphasizes that quality is a shared responsibility of both developers and testers. Effective communication between these teams is important, and automation can help reduce manual testing effort. The document argues that by working together and applying lessons learned through each iteration, development and testing teams can improve their process and deliver high quality software.
Simulanis Solutions is a company dedicated to deliver excellence in the domains of Process Engineering. We provide world-class technical-consulting and professional-development services in this specialist field with a constant thrust on tackling complex problems and overcoming them through the application of specialist technical knowhow. With a leadership team having a rich experience exceeding 100 man-years within the EPC sector, Simulanis brings together a unique blend of solid theoretical, unrelenting passion for exhibiting excellence, and relevant practical conversance in the core realm of Process Engineering.
Our aim is to deliver services of the highest technological advantages and efficient asset utilization using industry leading practices backed by intensive research. We aim to meet the demand of clients and bring in change in the conventional methodology by presenting our very own innovative model like SCISSORTM (Simulanis Collaborative Integrated Simultaneous Simulation for Optimum Results) technique. The bouquet of our service delivery encompasses domains of Process Research, Process Modelling, Process Simulation, Process Integration and Process Optimization, all of which also form fundamentally vital elements of our approach to tackle challenging assignments.
A Complete Study Guide for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Examinfosec train
An AWS Solutions Architect helps an organization to deploy complex applications on the AWS platform. Ever since Cloud computing gained popularity, companies worldwide have started to migrate their physical infrastructure onto the Cloud.
https://www.infosectrain.com/courses/aws-solutions-architect-training/
This talk sets out the thinking behind the Gerrard Consulting Business Story Method. The slides present background, an overview of the method and introduces the Testela Business tool that supports Gerrard Consulting services.
Michael Bolton - Heuristics: Solving Problems RapidlyTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2008 presentation on Heuristics: Solving Problems Rapidly by Michael Bolton. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Ho Chi Minh City Software Testing Conference January 2015
Software Testing in the Agile World
Website: www.hcmc-stc.org
Author: Nhat Do, Vu Duong
Context-Driven Testing (CDT) rejects the notion of generalized “best practices” that apply to all projects, and instead accepts that different practices work best under different circumstances. The third principle of the seven defined in CDT states that people are the most important part of any project’s context. Less of a focus on processes and tools, with more emphasis on people and their collaboration empowers testers with the freedom to make choices about how best to do their job without following a restrictive plan.
In joining the game of workshop and some theory sharing in slides, you will a better understanding of Context-Driven Testing practices, principles and its benefits as well as know how is a nice Marriage of Agile and Context-Driven Testing.
This document discusses different approaches to accelerated life testing (ALT). It introduces the thought process for selecting an ALT approach, discusses trade-off decisions, and enables selecting the right approach for a given situation. The key approaches discussed are: real-time testing with no constraints; time compression testing using increased usage cycles; applying an acceleration model relating stress to life; step stress testing; degradation testing; and Weibull success testing. Guiding principles are to respect constraints, use real usage conditions, minimize assumptions, and focus on failure mechanisms.
- The speaker proposes 16 "test axioms" that are intended to provide a framework for testing approaches and represent principles that are context-insensitive and self-evidently true.
- The axioms are grouped into three categories: stakeholders, design, and delivery. The speaker argues the axioms can help testers think critically about testing and identify flaws in arguments.
- It is argued that process improvement models are not effective for improving testing because there is no consensus on best practices and processes must be tailored to context. True improvement requires understanding why current approaches are used given the context.
Maelscrum / Business Story Manager OverviewPaul Gerrard
The document provides an overview of the Business Story Method, Story Platform, and Maelscrum tool. It describes how the method is used for requirements analysis, planning, execution and reporting. The Story Platform brings together the Business Story Manager and Maelscrum tools to support the method. Maelscrum allows users to create requirements, stories, scenarios, processes and link them to enable traceability and testing.
Joseph Beale, an automation lead, aims to convince others of the benefits of test automation over manual testing. He argues that automation saves significant time, increases testing capacity, allows for more frequent testing, and helps teams implement continuous integration and delivery. However, some resist automation due to concerns over time, resources, costs and skills. Beale counters that automation pays off with proper planning and teamwork, and that maintaining automated tests is better than the risks of manual testing. He closes by stating that as IT professionals, automation is something teams should embrace.
Erkki Poyhonen - Software Testing - A Users GuideTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2008 presentation on Software Testing - A Users Guide by Erkki Poyhonen. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Gerlof Hoekstra - OMG What Have We Done - EuroSTAR 2013TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2013 presentation on "OMG What Have We Done" by Gerlof Hoekstra.
See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
This document discusses software testing and provides guidance on best practices. It defines software testing as empirically investigating a product to provide stakeholders with quality information. The key aspects of testing discussed are modeling the system, making observations, asking useful questions, using logical reasoning, and taking a process of discovery approach. Testing is distinguished from checking and the importance of test design, exploratory testing, and testability over large automated test suites is emphasized. Credits are given to influential thinkers in the field.
As a CAD manager you are responsible for implementing new software tools and motivating users, but how do you do that when you have to train, implement standards, and deal with everything else? By establishing a CAD proving ground, you can treat your super users like test pilots and build a strong software development environment that benefits your users and your company. The proving-ground concept starts identifying new tools and customization through testing, training, standardization, constant improvement, and broad user adoption. In this class we will challenge you to think about software implementation in a totally different way than you have in the past, but the change will be worth it when you build a powerful proving ground. If you have to develop and/or deploy new software tools, you can’t afford to miss this class.
Neotys organized its first Performance Advisory Council in Scotland, the 14th & 15th of November.
With 15 Load Testing experts from several countries (UK, France, New-Zeland, Germany, USA, Australia, India…) we explored several theme around Load Testing such as DevOps, Shift Right, AI etc.
By discussing around their experience, the methods they used, their data analysis and their interpretation, we created a lot of high-value added content that you can use to discover what will be the future of Load Testing.
You want to know more about this event ? https://www.neotys.com/performance-advisory-council
by Alan Taylor (Innodev)
Test Driven Development is an engineering concept with practices that has great benefit to business. For example, if your business wants to have idealised and revered products, you will have:
- an ability to deliver high quality products which keep up with the latest customer wishes;
- products which are constantly updated with the latest cool features; and
- ability to very quickly resolve any issues that do occur – and they do for even the best organisation
We will share with you why Test Driven Development is a pivotal tool in the fight to be one of those inspiring organisations. We will cover the practices at a high level and go into the outcomes of those practices. We will include not only how the business should benefit directly from them, but also how they provide indirect benefits for the team and the organisation. Every positive has some negatives, whether they are perceived or actual, long term or short term). We will touch on how they are like any form of exercise – they will be hard work at times, but afterwards the results will include fitter, stronger and faster teams able to delivery consistently better results.
As a manager or leader, you will be able to walk away with insight that will enable you to determine how TDD is worth following up in your domain.
As someone within the delivery team, you will leave with deeper understanding of how you, your team and your company can effectively benefit from Test Driven Development.
Why you should stop using the generic term “Technical Debt” and start resolvi...Alex Fedorov
Do you feel like you are accruing all this Technical Debt every week and it slows your whole team down? Do you want to deal with it so badly, but you don’t know where even to start? Did you have “refactoring/rewriting sprints” in the past, and they have failed, and you had to revert?
The first advice is to stop calling it “Technical Debt.” And instead, sit down with your team and figure out the list of specific problems that are causing the most trouble in your software right at this moment. Attack the first problem on the list then only. Repeat on a regular basis.
In this talk, you will learn WHY you should do that, and HOW to do that. Moreover, you are going to be able to apply it tomorrow at your workplace!
by Dave Bales
This presentation aims to raise awareness that default Product Ownership (that uses only ordering and prioritising PBI’s) is not enough to be successful. A higher level of consciousness is required to appreciate the challenges and dynamics of the work at hand. Devising evolutionary strategies to cater for the undercurrents, changing landscape and the opposing dynamics in the product and its backlog, may help to tip the balance in favour of being more successful.
Project dynamics can include:
Releasing a new insurance app to millenials on a smartphone platform. The challenge with this is that more customer testing and an exploratory approach of how milenials think will be required, hence each sprint goal may include working toward a customer testing objective;
A compliance risk project where compliance objectives are static. How those objectives are satisfied is variable, hence an evolving strategy to use an iterative approach is to be considered. The first iteration would be to neutralise the compliance risk, starting with a manual process. Successive iterations would then be run by automating and adding more value;
An integration risk project, where a central framework has to integrate with several other systems. An evolving strategy would focus on setting sprint goals to achieve integration, as well as regression testing objectives to neutralise the integration risk early
Creative Problem Solving for Business - http://metabiz.com.au
Sometimes business owners get caught up in day to day operations and allow opportunities to pass them by. Developing new ways of solving problems can help you identify innovative solutions to save you time and money.
This webinar will introduce quick and easy problem solving techniques that emphasise creative thinking and highlighting opportunity. Topics this interactive webinar will cover:
• Five whys - quick and easy root cause assessment
• Fish bones and other diagrams to create creative solutions
• Using root cause analysis to develop amazing innovation
• How to know if you are thinking inside or outside of the box
About Joseph Ours' Presentation – “Bad Metric – Bad!”
Metrics have always been used in corporate sectors, primarily as a way to gain insight into what is an otherwise invisible world. Organizations blindly adopt a set of metrics as a way of satisfying some process transparency requirement, rarely applying any statistical or scientific thought behind the measures and metrics they establish and interpret. Many metrics do not represent what people believe they do and as a result can lead to erroneous decisions. Joseph looks at some of the common and some of the humorous testing metrics and determines why they are failures. He further discusses the real purpose of metrics, metrics programs and finishes with pitfalls into which you fall.
This document provides an overview of root cause analysis (RCA) and common RCA tools. It discusses the CPAR/SCPAR process for documenting problems, determining root causes, and implementing corrective actions. Three commonly used RCA tools are described: 5 Why's analysis involves repeatedly asking why to drill down to the root cause; affinity diagrams group detailed causes into major categories; and fishbone diagrams illustrate the relationship between causes and effects. The document encourages using the appropriate tool based on the problem complexity and provides examples of applying each tool.
PHX Session #3 - "It Works on My Machine!" Closing the Loop Between Developme...Steve Lange
The document discusses closing the loop between development and testing. It emphasizes that quality is a shared responsibility of both developers and testers. Effective communication between these teams is important, and automation can help reduce manual testing effort. The document argues that by working together and applying lessons learned through each iteration, development and testing teams can improve their process and deliver high quality software.
Simulanis Solutions is a company dedicated to deliver excellence in the domains of Process Engineering. We provide world-class technical-consulting and professional-development services in this specialist field with a constant thrust on tackling complex problems and overcoming them through the application of specialist technical knowhow. With a leadership team having a rich experience exceeding 100 man-years within the EPC sector, Simulanis brings together a unique blend of solid theoretical, unrelenting passion for exhibiting excellence, and relevant practical conversance in the core realm of Process Engineering.
Our aim is to deliver services of the highest technological advantages and efficient asset utilization using industry leading practices backed by intensive research. We aim to meet the demand of clients and bring in change in the conventional methodology by presenting our very own innovative model like SCISSORTM (Simulanis Collaborative Integrated Simultaneous Simulation for Optimum Results) technique. The bouquet of our service delivery encompasses domains of Process Research, Process Modelling, Process Simulation, Process Integration and Process Optimization, all of which also form fundamentally vital elements of our approach to tackle challenging assignments.
A Complete Study Guide for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Examinfosec train
An AWS Solutions Architect helps an organization to deploy complex applications on the AWS platform. Ever since Cloud computing gained popularity, companies worldwide have started to migrate their physical infrastructure onto the Cloud.
https://www.infosectrain.com/courses/aws-solutions-architect-training/
The Automation Firehose: Be Strategic & Tactical With Your Mobile & Web TestingPerfecto by Perforce
The document discusses strategies for effective test automation. It emphasizes taking a risk-based approach to prioritize what to automate based on factors like frequency of use, complexity of setup, and business impact. The document outlines approaches for test automation frameworks, coding standards, and addressing common challenges like technical debt. It provides examples of metrics to measure the effectiveness of test automation efforts.
Agile Cafe Boulder - Panelist and keynote slidesCloud Elements
Agile Cafe, 2/3 in Boulder, CO. Presentations from Adam Woods at StoneRiver, Bill Holst at Colorado Springs Utilities and keynote by Jean Tabaka at Rally Software.
Advanced Structures India was established with a motive to address the rising demand for better engineered products in India, particularly in Passenger, Commercial and Agricultural Vehicles segment
Software organizations that want to maximize the yield of Software Testing find that choosing the right testing strategy is hard, and most testing managers are ill-prepared for this. The organization has to learn how to plan testing efforts based on the characteristics of each project and the many ways the software product is to be used. This tutorial is intended for Software professionals who are likely to be responsible for defining the strategy and planning of the testing effort and managing it through its life cycle. These roles are usually Testing Managers or Project Managers.
For numerous large enterprises, the alignment of hardware and software processes is critical to managing an Agile environment. Agile Hardware implementations can be put in place by using the same framework as our typical Agile Software Development transformations. Start off with assessing the organization’s current state, then move to planning and preparing by and putting together a transition backlog, start execution with training and coaching, spread the cultural shift with change management and maintain and scale the transformation.
Best Practices on Driving Design Decisions with SimulationDesign World
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Today, there are lots of different options. You can provide automation tools to simulation analysts to improve their productivity or you could provide CAD-embedded simulation tools to engineers for early simulation feedback on a daily basis. What is recommended can vary by company size. What works for a large company can and should be dramatically different than a small design shop.
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Analysis Consulting Overview: Hawk Ridge Systems
1. Webinar Wednesday eDemo: Analysis
Consulting Overview
Christopher Ma
Lead Analysis Services Engineer
2. Agenda
§ Introductions
§ Why Analysis?
§ What Can Hawk Ridge Systems Offer?
§ Analysis Consulting Overview
§ What are the Steps in an Analysis Consulting Project?
§ Analysis Consulting Benefits
§ Summary and Closing Remarks
3. Introductions
§ Christopher Ma, Lead Analysis Services Engineer
§ 5 years with Hawk Ridge Systems, Majority Spent
Focusing on SolidWorks Simulation
§ B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara
§ M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA
§ CSWE, CSWP, Elite Applications Engineer
§ Jared Conway, Analysis Services Manager
§ 9 years with Hawk Ridge Systems, Majority Spent
Focusing on COSMOS/SolidWorks Simulation
§ B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University
of Manitoba
§ P.Eng registered in Manitoba, Canada
§ Paolo Olmos, Analysis Services Engineer
§ 3 years with Hawk Ridge Systems, Majority Spent
Focusing on SolidWorks Simulation
§ B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from San Jose State University
§ CSWE, CSWP
4. Why Analysis?
§ Solve problems that can’t easily be calculated by hand.
§ Reduce the number of prototypes that need to be built and the number
of physical tests that need to be run.
§ Iterate on various design ideas quickly, at a lower cost.
§ Learn more about your product than you can with physical testing.
§ Accelerate your product design cycle.
§ Every business has a product that can be improved (faster, stronger,
lighter, cheaper, etc.)
5. Analysis Products
SolidWorks Simulation Premium
SolidWorks Simulation Professional
Static
Frequency
& Buckling
Thermal Drop Test
Fatigue
Nonlinear
(static & dynamic)
Motion
Simulation
Optimization
Pressure
Vessel
Harmonic
Random
Vibration
Time History
Composites
Flow
Simulation
HVAC Module
Electronic Cooling
Response
Spectra
Sustainability
Plastics
6. Why Outsource Your Analysis?
§ Factors include:
§ Time, Cost, Resources (People and Hardware/Software),
Knowledge, Frequency of Use, etc.
7. What Can Hawk Ridge Systems Offer?
§ Hawk Ridge Systems Analysis Services
§ Extension of our long running training and technical support
offering, plus the addition of analysis outsourcing.
§ HRS analysis services is a seamless extension of your
engineering/design team. We are available when you need us, for as
long as you need us. We will find you a solution that meets all of
your needs.
§ Services offered:
§ Analysis Consulting
§ One-on-one Training/Mentoring
§ Custom Training
§ General Consulting
8. What Can Hawk Ridge Systems Offer?
§ Extensive experience in mechanical engineering and the
application of SolidWorks Simulation software.
§ Services offered for all SolidWorks Simulation products,
including Flow Simulation and SolidWorks Plastics.
§ Flexible and Efficient
9. Analysis Consulting Service
§ Leverage the engineering and
analysis expertise, experience,
and resources of our team to
execute your analysis.
§ Look at current designs, design
ideas, trends, and/or
optimization
§ Great option for customers who
have projects that are on
schedule, or behind schedule.
Mentoring
Training/
Custom
Training
Consulting Any
Daily
Infrequently
AheadBehind
10. Steps in the Analysis Consulting Process
Discovery
Scope
Development
Scope Signoff Service
Review and
Final Results
Customer
Signoff
§ Project-Based, or Hourly Billing
§ Competitive Rates
§ 10 Business Day Turnaround, Priority Service Available
11. Analysis Consulting Benefits
§ Cost
§ Great option for customers who use analysis
infrequently.
§ Zero hardware upgrade costs.
§ Zero training costs.
§ Time
§ Looming deadlines?
§ Zero learning curve for the customer.
§ More experience, less wasted time.
§ Dedicated hardware, optimized for analysis.
12. § Resources
§ Don’t have to stretch your personnel
resources.
§ Long Term Goals
§ We use the same software we sell.
§ File sets can be provided.
§ We can mentor you on how we
setup your analyses, and why.
Analysis Consulting Benefits
13. Promotions
§ 25% of consulting fees cash-back towards license
purchase
§ 25% off of your mentoring session if you purchase
analysis consulting service
§ 15% on Simulation Quick-Start Bundle, includes
training and mentoring
14. Closing Remarks
§ Who do I contact for more information?
§ Analysis Services
§ Christopher Ma - chrism@hawkridgesys.com, 650-230-7019
§ Jared Conway – jared@hawkridgesys.com, 650-230-7006
§ Software
§ Your local sales rep, info@hawkridgesys.com, or our toll free
numbers
§ Free Analysis Consultation
§ More information on our website, www.hawkridgesys.com
15. Hawk Ridge Systems Analysis Services
email: chrism@hawkridgesys.com
phone: 650.230.7019
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http://www.hawkridgesys.com/events/recorded-webinars/
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