Audience: Who is the course for?
Those who are involved in the management of any aspect of software testing including:
- Testers
- Test analysts
- Test engineers
- Test consultants
- Test managers
- User acceptance testers
- Software developers
Duration:
Four days
Benefits to the Individual:
- Enables delegates to apply best practices in test management
- Skills and confidence to operate effectively in a test management environment
- Helps individuals to improve the quality of test management within organisations
Benefits to the Business:
- Allows testing to meet cost and resourcing constraints
- The application of best practice test management techniques results in greater effectiveness and increased efficiency
- Improved communication and working relationships within the testing team leads to greater productivity
Prerequisites:
There are no formal entry requirements for this course, although prior experience of working on IT projects is certainly beneficial, either as testers, or in a management role.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course attendees will have:
- an in-depth understanding of how risk-based testing is used to define the test strategy on a project;
- the ability to create a test plan at both the project and test phase levels, based on the results of a risk analysis;
- practice at test estimation and tailoring the test strategy to meet cost and resourcing constraints;
- an understanding of how to monitor and control a testing project against an agreed test plan;
- knowledge of the most effective test metrics to apply to typical software testing projects;
- an insight into the people skills required by the modern test manager to get the most out of your test team;
- familiarity with the range of documentation required on a typical project and the best means of communicating with the various project stakeholders;
- an appreciation of how the testing of an operational system differs from that during development, but is still based on evolving and new risks.
Course Content:
This course includes lectures, exercises and practical work, and uses a hands-on approach based on group exercises and discussions. It is highly-interactive, allowing delegates to learn from the experience of the instructor and each other, and, owing to its interactive nature, each course is restricted to a maximum of 12 delegates.
The course is intended as both an introduction to best practices for those new to test management and a refresher for more experienced test professionals to the current state of industry thinking.
- Day one - Roles, responsibilities and context. Introducing the test manager and test processes; building an overall plan (WBS and PERT).Use "course topics bullet "style
- Day two - Test planning through risk management. Identifying & analysing risks, then agreeing risk mitigation through test phases, types and techniques.
- Day three - Building the test plan. Project phase / type test strategy, staffing and resourcing the testing, documenting and agreeing the plan.
- Day four - On-going test management. Monitoring, control and reporting, completion, lessons learned and test process improvement, live systems.
Examinations:
There is no exam or qualification for this course
