How to Prevent and Detect Software Defects Early in the Life Cycle

Overview

Requirements Checking and Software Testing can consume a significant amount of the project's time and effort, but frequently it is done without a test strategy. A deliberate, well-planned checking and testing strategy can be more cost-effective, and can focus on the risks for the new product or new release. The result is to allocate your checking and testing time and effort so that it will have the most benefit and payback.

This seminar is designed to show what should be included in a deliberate, well-planned checking and testing strategy and how that can help reduce risks for a new product or a new release.

This course teaches the techniques necessary for you to develop and maintain a systematic, integrated checking and testing approach both individually and as a team. The process illustrated in this course focuses on prevention as well as detection of defects.

You Will Learn How To

1. Identify checking and testing objectives

2. Develop and validate a plan

3. Conduct reviews, walkthroughs and inspection (non-execution based testing)

4. Select and prepare test cases

5. Track and Reporting of Incidents

6. Identify what to test before buying a software package

7. Identify what to test after maintenance and enhancement changes

8. Measure the success of your testing efforts

Who Should Attend

The audience includes Test Professionals, Test Managers, Project Leaders, Quality Analysts, Business Systems Analysts and Developers.

Course Content

Unit 1: Principles of Checking and Testing

Unit 2: Developing a Strategy

Unit 3: Non-Execution based testing (Testing requirements and designs)

Unit 4: Execution based testing (Testing Programs-Testing in the small)

Unit 5: Testing Systems (Testing in the large)

Unit 6: Testing Software Changes

Unit 7: Testing Software Packages

Unit 8: Managing the Testing Function

You Will Receive Online Access to:

1. The most up to date course materials

2. Templates

Instructor(s) Who Lead and Facilitate This Session

• Mark A. Moore