Indroduction:

Three days workshop focuses on Test types, scenario, case design fundamentals quality control/assurance. The end to end test case design help the testing team to uncover defects in software. Second day shows the key areas of testing process monitoring and controlling for test managers and discussing the factors effecting. Third day is mainly describe more on testing planning effectiveness which is a important activity to ensure that test process if followed as per agenda and requirements.

 

 

Take Away

•  Strong understanding of Software Testing Basics

•  Understanding of Test flow

•  Understanding of building software and Test requirements

•  Test planning hands on and Test strategy documentation

•  Verification detail

•  Solving their organizational 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-Test Design Processes, Methodologies and Techniques

• Basics of Test life-cycle
• Test Case Design Techniques
• Strategies for generating test cases
• Black Box testing
o Equivalence Class Partitioning
o Boundary Value Analysis
o Error/Expert guessing
• Cause-Effect Diagram
• Decision Tables
• State Transition diagram
• White box testing (Unit) and Grey box testing (Integration)
o control flow & Statement/decision/condition coverage
o Path coverage
o Program complexity and basis path coverage
• System Test Planning (functional and Non functional)
o Developing a system test strategy
o Components of a system test plan
o A test plan template
o Test design basics
o Test design activities
o Deliverable of the test design phase
o Conditions and test cases
o Test case verification points
o Expected and Actual results/ststus
o Major areas of system testing
o Business requirement testing
o Preparing the Test Design Specification
 Defining test conditions
 Testing for missing business requirements
 Defining test cases
 Identifying data needed to execute tests
 Defining baseline data
 Determining expected results
 Defining test cycles includes defect management
• A Systems Test Specification template

Day 2-Becoming an Effective Test Manager

• Skill of interaction/technical and non-technical
• Introduction to effective communication
• Know your team
• Creating excellent defect entries & Quality Assessments
• Dealing with perceptions, attitudes, metrics & understanding
• Finding & seizing PR opportunities
• Experience sharing, Q & A
• “Manager”, Do you know your JD, Roles/Responsibilities ?
• Create “Learning” Organizations
• Motivating Your Team, empowering them
• Create Center of Excellence
• Proactively Managing “Up”
• Compelling Leadership
• Always speak with data
• Solving team's issue of management at their work place Q & A

Day 3-Effective Test Planning

• Testing basic & Life-cycle
• Test Planning agenda
• Goal of testing for Customer, development, testing
• Test Planning
• Test Design / Development
• Test Execution
• Evaluation / defect management
• Test process - continuous improvement
• Test Deliverable
o Test Planning
• Types of plans (Unit-Integration-System functional)
• Why plan
• Who uses the test plan?
• Useable test plans
• Basic questions
• What-When-Where-why-Who-How
• Project time line
• Dependencies
• Test objectives
• Test schedule
o Template and checklists
o Assumptions
o Test resources
o Test Project Risk
o Test Process and strategy
o Test tools
o IEEE standards
o Audience's problem solving Q & A