Practical Test Management

The Practical Test Management course provides delegates with the essential skills needed to perform as a Test Manager using a risk-based approach to testing.

The course is based around a detailed and realistic case study and follows this 'virtual' project from inception, risk analysis and the generation of the test plan, the application of this plan to perform the testing, and then considers the testing that needs to be performed once the application goes 'live' by considering the appropriate responses to both on-going and new risks.

The course is based on practical experience of applying risk-based testing on a variety of projects and will use the same principles underlying the proposed new ISO 29119 Software Testing standard.

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

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