Advanced Software Testing

Description

Earlier detection of software defects in your products; prior to customer release, can have dramatic positive impacts on the cost, schedule & quality of your projects. If your organization needs to improve defect detection efficiency, be capable of best in class test strategy, design and execution methods and drive early defect detection, then this course will provide you with the knowledge you need.

Prerequisites

Participants should have 1-2 years experience in software test, software test management or software quality.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course; participants will be able to:

• List & Describe the process steps involved in Effective and Efficient Software test
• Be capable of designing a test strategy based on Product Risk
• Be more competent in their role to design & execute tests to capture defects
• Know the types of tests to execute to detect the defects customers are likely to experience
• Remove costly defects at the earliest opportunity in the lifecycle State the need for defect analysis & classification

Training Syllabus

Day 1

• Review of software test
• What is the product and what is the risk?
• Exercise: Define the risk
• Risk driving test strategy
• Exercise: Define the test strategy
• Tester value add to requirements and design reviews
• Testable requirements?
• Why, when and what to inspect?
• Costs and benefits of inspections
• Exercise: Requirements analysis
• Test Design & Coverage
• Re-visit test types
• What types of test?
• New feature
• Testing changes: Regression strategy
• Fault Insertion, Customer focused test
• Test Planning
• Estimation
• Deliverables
• Exercise: Estimation: Resources/Cost/Schedule
• Introduction to Software Usability Test
• What is it?
• What are the “rules” and guidelines

Day 2

• Website testing
• Forms
• Text
• Links & Graphics
• Cookies
• Exercise: Write test cases for web site.
• Security Testing
• What are the assets?
• What are the test cases?
• Exercise: Write security type test cases for your product
• Configuration and Compatibility test
• What are these?
• Coping with Change Control
• Systems administration type test
• Communication within teams
• Test team management
• Working in global teams
• Resolving conflict in teams
• Test Tracking and Control Test Schedule, Test environment needs, test case execution
• Handover criteria
• How to manage the squeeze on testing
• Defect management and working with Project Management & Development
• Test Reporting
• Recap/Q&A session
• Transfer to work situation
• Close

Customers can select additional modules to include from the following list depending on their training need and product. These are added to the existing course as a Day 3 or replace other modules.

• Defect Prevention
• Test execution, tracking and schedule
• Escaped defects & process improvement
• Working with geographically dispersed teams
• Test Metrics

PMBOK, PMP, PMP, PgMP, CAPM, PMI-SP and PMI-RMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.