Show the Value that Makes Developers, Users, and Managers Want
to Test
2 Day Intensive Seminar Workshop
This interactive workshop is aimed at turning testing into a valuable
activity that actually helps you get your work done quicker—as
well as better. Simple but powerful structured techniques are presented
to break testing into manageable pieces and perform a series of risk
analyses so limited time can be devoted to performing the most important
testing earlier and more thoroughly. Participants apply checklists
and guidelines to design test cases and discover numerous conditions
they ordinarily would have overlooked. By understanding why and how
things work, they can be adapted more easily to one’s own situation.
Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying
techniques to an actual case.
Participants
will learn:
* A structured Proactive Testing™
model of testing that should be performed throughout the
life cycle.
* Ways testing actually can cut time, effort, and aggravation
for users, developers, and managers.
* Writing industry-accepted test plans and test designs
that make testing easier and more reliable.
* Multiple techniques/checklists to design more thorough
tests and discover overlooked conditions.
* Applying risk analysis and reusable testware to perform
more of the important testing in less time.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been
designed for testers, developers, analysts, designers, auditors, users,
and managers who plan, oversee, and/or carry out testing of software
products.
HOW TESTING CAN CUT EFFORT &
TIME
Testing for correctness vs. testing for errors
V-model and objectives of each test level
Why developers, managers, users resist
Defect injection, detection, ejection metrics
Reactive testing—out of time, but not tests
Proactive Testing™ Life Cycle model
CAT-Scan Approach? to find more errors
Static and dynamic testing approaches
Developer vs. independent test group testing
Strategy—help find/prevent errors early
Test planning to save the developer’s time
Gaining value by applying concepts yourself
UNIT TESTING--FUNCTIONAL
Why exhaustive testing is impossible
Design to get most from time, resources
Functional (black box) testing strategy
3-level top-down test planning and design
Functionality matrix, use case format
Equivalence classes and boundary values
Error guessing, heuristics, and risk analysis
Defining test cases, scripts and matrices
Test case specifications vs. test data values
TEST PLANNING VALUE NOT BUSYWORK
IEEE Standard for Test Documentation
Enabling manageability, reuse, selectivity
Entry and exit criteria, smoke tests
Master test planning risk-based strategy
Letting testing drive development
Preventing showstoppers and excess rework
UNIT TESTING--STRUCTURAL
Structural (white box) levels of coverage
Flowgraphing logic paths
Applying structural paths to functionality
INTEGRATION & SYSTEM TESTING
Graphical technique to simplify integrations
Moving integration error detection earlier
Daily, top- and bottom-down builds strategy
Iterative development testing issues
C/S, O-O, GUI, Web testing checklists
DEFECT REPORTING
Keys to effective testing
Defect isolation and reproducibility
Defect categorization
Projecting shipment date from defect trends
Measuring and evaluating test effectiveness Test metrics
to save the developer’s time
