Indroduction:

  Three days workshop focuses on Testing fundamentals which is a must for any test team for quality control/assurance. Second day focus more on identifying the Test requirements which is a key factor for testing team's success, as without understanding scope of testing no team can formulate success on testing. Third day is mainly describe more on managing the testing effort, process and areas of concerns in testing which need adequate control to ensure the quality of software is achieved.

 

 

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-Software Testing Fundamentals and Best Practices

• Introduction of Software Testing
• Software Test life Cycle
• Requirements (use-case, scenario, prototypes) for testing
• Test design concepts, test case/script, test data development
• What is testable and what is non-testable
• Positive and Negative Testing
• Test Execution and defect management
• Test status
• Verification and Validation
• Levels of testing – Unit, Integration, System
• User acceptance
• Conclusion and Audience questions

Day 2-Effective Requirements for Effective Testing

• Types/sources of requirements
• Organizing requirements
• FURPS
• Quality requirements vs functional requirements
• Requirement management and requirements Traceability
• Test case to requirement Traceability
• Model-Based Requirement Management Process
• Test Data models
• Use cases
• Decision tables

Day 3-Effective Test Management

• Testing in Software Life Cycle
• The expectations from testing
• Testing perspective
• Quality Assurance views
o Management view
o Development view
o Client view
o Regulatory view
• Testing in different Life Cycle models
• Development projects vs. Implementation projects
• Waterfall, Iterative, Agile and other development modes
• Test Planning
o Defining the scope / what to test
o Outlining the approach
o Determining the testing levels and types
o Scheduling
o Defect Reporting
o Tools
o Resources
o Risk Management
o Test Reporting
o Light reporting
o Comprehensive reporting
• Controlling the Testing Process
• Measures and Metrics
• Monitoring and Control mechanisms
• Improving the Testing Process
• Data, Information and Knowledge
• Measures: Gathering/formalizing data
• Metrics: Analyzing data and creating Information
• Continuous improvement