Indroduction:

First day of the program shows the effective 10 steps to ensure a test manager is able to fulfill the responsibility and build confidence to management and team. Second day deals with the software test metrics to manage, control and improve the test process. The Third day deals with exploratory testing model and process

 

Take Away

• Identifying and working on top priority areas as a test manager to ensure that the success of the position “manager” is achieved.
• Controlling the software testing process with data, measurement and metrics
• Exploratory testing model and process
• Solving the practical testing problems

Target Audience:

Test Engineers, Senior Test engineers, Test Lead, Test manager, Project manager, requirement analyst, QA engineers

 

Duration

3 days

 

Course Contents

Day 1-Ten steps to become successful Test manager

• Testing Process and Basic Role of a test Manager
• The ten steps to make him effective
• Clarify, Negotiate and Commit to your Role
• Understand your Expected result
• Know your piece of the business
• Build a Effective and efficient test team
• Choose employee wisely
• Define and model group excellence for testing
• Plan the work and work the plan - create some flexibility
• Obliterate barriers
• Proactively adopt and manage changes
• Create a legacy to produce result
• Discussion of practical problems

Day 2-Improving Software Testing with the Use of Metrics

• Why Testing phase is important?
• Monitoring and controlling testing
• How metrics are important
• Types of metrics – Basic and compiled
• Metrics at Test Requirement phase
• Controlling Test Requirement phase
• Metrics at Test Design and development phase
• Controlling Test Design and development phase
• Metrics at Test Execution phase
• Controlling Test Execution phase
• Metrics at Test closure / exit phase
• Controlling Test closure / exit phase
• Other metrics from Unit and Integration Testing phase
• Analyzing metrics data for improvements
Discussion Q & A

Day 3-Managed Exploratory Testing

• Exploratory - why it is important
• When it is used
• Basic strategy of Exploratory Testing
• Other types of Test Execution Strategies
o Manual
o Automated
o Scripted
o Ad hoc
• Exploratory Philosophies
o Cem Kener
o James Back
o James Whittaker
o Synthesis
• Designing Exploratory Tests
• Design by Scenario
• Design by “Tour” / “end to end path”
• Executing exploratory tests
• Support tools
• Documentation