CA09 - Software Test Management - 3 Days

Course Description

Customisation

For on-site courses (i.e. at your premises), we are more than happy to tailor the course agenda to suit your exact requirements. In many cases, we are able to build your in-house standards and naming conventions into the delivered course.

Course Details

Testing and Quality
Reasons for not testing.
Software quality, ISO 9126.
Quality control and quality assurance.
Why and how do we test?
When to start and stop.
What do we test against?
What do we test with?
Development processes (waterfall, incremental, RAD, Agile).
Scrum, continual planning, release planning.

The Testing Process
Levels of test (unit, integration, system acceptance).
The testing process.
Test strategy.
Beta testing.
Verification and validation.

The Test Organisation
People involved in testing.
The test manager.
Motivation and morale.
Management style.
Leadership guidelines.
Team organisation, team size.
Test qualifications.

Test Planning
Master test plan.
Processes and documentation.
Master test planning process.
Contents of a test plan.
Risk analysis and integrity levels.
Test approach, Test deliverables.

Estimating Techniques
Work breakdown structures and bottom-up estimating.
Estimating with ranges, modified Delphi.
Probability in estimating.
Test case estimation.
Function points and test case point analysis.
User stories and story points.
Estimating velocity, planning poker.

Scheduling
Networks and critical path.
Gantt charts.
Progress control (monitoring, analysing, correcting).
Handling a late start.
Agile environments, burndown charts.

Test Design
Test techniques (functional, structural, static and dynamic analysis).
Equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, state-transition diagrams.
Exploratory testing.
Mapping test cases to requirements, coverage.
Test design, test case and test procedure specification.
Testing without requirements.

Test Automation
Reasons for automating.
Return on investment.
Tool issues.
Tool selection.
Guidelines for using automated testing

Execution Management
What is a defect?
Test incident reports.
Defect tracking and analysis.
Test effectiveness.
Requirements and code coverage.
Defect measurement.
When to stop testing, predicting release dates.
Reporting.

Metrics
What metrics can do for you.
Measurement issues and problems.
Common metrics.
Usability metrics.
Cost of finding and fixing defects.

Test Process Improvement
Process assessment.
Capability Maturity Model (CMM).
Model for test process improvement.
Test maturity matrix.
Implementing process improvement.

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