How to Select the Most Important Tests

1 day Seminar

This seminar gives you reproducible defensible methods to select, execute, and track the most important tests in your test effort.  It includes tools that help you evaluate your results so that you provide high quality information that your management needs to make decisions.  Plan-Driven Traditional, RAD and Agile/Extreme project requirements are covered throughout the course.   

This tutorial is based in part on the book Software Testing Fundamentals,” authored by the presenter (Published by Wiley, May 2003) and in part on the authors new book in progress.

Topics include:

·        Risk based selection techniques for test design

·        Building and managing test scripts and test suites

·        Adding automation to improve the performance of the test effort

·        Techniques for tracking bugs and getting them removed

·        Adding value to the product and demonstrating that value to management

This seminar is useful to testers in all type of development shops, from heavyweight to lightweight, even out to the eXtreme(s).

Seminar Outline

Test Design

Analytical Test Design

·        Path Analysis

·        Data Analysis

Non-Analytical Test Design

Risk analysis and Ranking

Select the Most Important Tests

Test Execution

Managing Test Execution and Reporting Test Progress

·        S-Curves – How they work

·        S-Curves in Practice

Automation Techniques and Tools

·        Publishing Results

·        Status

·        Task assignments

·        High Function Web Sites

Reporting and Tracking Bugs

Analyzing Bug Statistics

Tracking and Reporting the Test Effort

Beyond the test cycle: Adding more value

Note: This seminar applies techniques introduced in the Risk Based Test Management seminar. Students must be familiar with test asset management, inventories, risk ranking techniques, test metrics, planning, sizing, and test estimation in order to get the most benefit from this seminar.

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Last modified: August 13, 2008