Planning Effective Software Testing
2-DAY SESSION
Proven techniques for planning, estimating and managing your software test plans to ensure your testing is done more effectively and within available time, budget and resources
Learn how to:
- Produce better software products by truly understanding the entire test planning process and its critical effect on product success or failure
- Identify all the different types of tests required to produce a marketworthy "Gold" release
- Identify test cases and plan for their timely development and execution
- Quickly obtain organizational commitment to your test plan
- Use a thorough and powerful traceability matrix to guarantee the comprehensiveness of your testing
- Accomplish risk planning and management for fail-safe testing activities
- Track and manage the testing effort and take corrective action to avoid costly human or technical errors
- Capture relevant stakeholder buy-in for your testing effort to eliminate delays, surprises, and unintended consequences
- Integrate your test plans with other project plans to guarantee their relevance and effectiveness
These Key Benefits Will Be Immediately Useful:
- Objectively identify when testing is complete so you can eliminate ambiguity and disagreements
- Clearly describe the importance and role of the Test Plan so other stakeholders embrace it as important
- Understand how to list the content of a complete Test Plan so you never miss any important components
- Obtain key facts & data you need for accurate Test Planning
- Identify necessary testing-related activities so everyone understands exactly what needs to be done
- Use a requirements-to-test traceability matrix to assure nothing has been overlooked
- Prioritize testing-related activities so tradeoffs can be done with confidence
- Estimate resources required for testing—be assured that you have what you need, when you need it
- Define a comprehensive testing calendar
- Identify, track, and manage risks to your testing effort
- Assure the completeness of your tests and eliminate surprises for your customers
- Clearly determine the specific exit criteria for testing
- Peer-review the Test Plan to guarantee quality and completeness
- Obtain stakeholder concurrence with the Test Plan
- Track and manage the testing process
- Understand and communicate the scope of the testing effort
- Identify success criteria for testing activities
- Document testing scope and objectives
- List the inputs to and outputs from test planning
- Enumerate the test cases that are required to satisfy the objective of each test
- Identify all of the resources that are required for test preparation and execution
- Compute the effort, cost, budget and schedule for testing
- Determine how testing activities will be managed, tracked and reported
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is designed for professionals who have had practical exposure to software testing and desire to strengthen their ability to plan and manage the testing process.
Some of the professionals who would greatly benefit include:
- Quality Analysts
- Quality Engineers
- Testers
- Quality Managers
- Project Managers
- Software Engineers
- Testing Leads