Software Test Fundamentals

Description

Defects that are found late or escape to customer sites cost money; they delay projects and damage your credibility as a software provider. It is well known that fixing defects as early as possible in the lifecycle is the most cost effective method; sometimes by a factor of more 10x. If your organization needs to improve defect detection efficiency, understand and implement software test best practices then this course will provide you with the knowledge you need.

Prerequisites

Participants should have experience or knowledge in one of the following areas: software test (any area from unit test through to system test), software test management or Quality management. This course can also be used as an introduction to software test or learners very new to the software test role.

Learning Objectives

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

• 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

Training Syllabus

Day 1

• Introduction to Software test
• Exercise: What makes a good tester
• The reality of software test
• Test types
• What is the product under test
• Exercise: Define the product and scope of test
• What are the requirements?
• Types of black box test
• Exercise: Test case writing
• Test Design and Coverage
• Maximise use of test time
• Equivalence Partitioning
• Boundary Conditions
• Exercise: Boundary Value Analysis
• Recap/Q&A session

Day 2

• Race Conditions
• Performance Test
• Stress Test
• Other tests to consider
• Null values
• Erratic user
• Repetition
• Existing defects
• Test Execution
• Best Practices
• Problem reproduction
• Defect tracking
• Managing the backlog of defects
• Dealing with queries from development
• Recap/Q&A session
• Transfer to work situation
• Close

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