Mastering Test Management and Planning

This intensive 3-day tutor-led course focuses on the testing process, test management, standards, and test process assessment and improvement, reviews, defect management, test tools & automation, incident management, and people management, and involves theory, examples, and hands-on exercises which delegates practice to help you practice the methods and techniques taught in the course.

The course is ideal for software testing professionals who are looking to take a more senior role and provides an essential framework for prosperous test management. This training course goes above and beyond the ISTQB curriculum designed for test managers. In addition to the key areas that are vital for successful test management, the course addresses advanced individual skills to manage a test team and successfully deliver a software testing project, individual skills for testers and managers and motivation, test automation, modern industry trends, and specific approaches to an agile environment.

At the end of the course, you will have a solid understanding of managing testing teams and mastering & improving testing processes which will help you in preparation for certification.

This training is not accredited yet, it is planned with the new ISTQB Syllabus v2021.

Lektor

Osnova kurzu

1. Test Management in Context

   Understanding Testing Stakeholders
   What is “good enough”?
   Developer/tester ratio

2. Testing Process

   Test Planning, Monitoring and Control
   Test Analysis
   Test Design
   Test Implementation
   Test Execution
   Evaluating Exit Criteria & Reporting
   Test Closure Activities

3. Testing and Quality

   Cost of Quality — Economics of test and failure
   Business Value of Testing
   Goals vs priorities
   Preventive testing

4. Test Management

   Alignment of Test Activities with Other Lifecycle Activities
   

5. Test Documentation and Other Work Products

   Test Policy, Test Strategy, Master Test Plan, and Level Test Plan
   Test Progress Report and Test Summary Report
   Testing Strategy and Test Approach
   Different Types of Test Strategies
   Regression Strategy
   Automation Strategy
   Performance Test Strategy

6. Risk-based Testing

   Why Risk-Based Testing
   What is a Risk
   Risk Management Process
   Test Prioritization and Effort Allocation in the Test Process

7. Reviews

   Management Reviews and Audits
   Managing Reviews
   Metrics for Reviews
   Managing Formal Reviews

8. Defect Management

   The Defect Lifecycle
   Defect Report Information
   Assessing Process Capability with Defect Report Information
   Improving the Test Process

9. Improving Processes

   Improving the Testing Process
   Improving the Testing Process with TMMi
   Improving the Testing Process with CTP
   Improving the Testing Process with STEP
   Industry specific Test Process Improvement

10. Test Tools and Automation

    Tools Selection
    Tools
    Return of Investment
    Tool Lifecycle
    Tool Metrics
    Tools Issues

11. People Skills and Team Composition

    Individual Skills
    Test Team Dynamics
    Fitting Testing Within an Organization
    Motivation
    Communication
    Career Paths for Testers

Co se naučíte?

• Develop and implement an effective test strategy.
• Identify and handle critical issues in specific test situations.
• Monitor the status of testing activities and software work products.
• Integrate testing into your software development process.
• Understand the Test Manager’s role in reviews and defect management.
• Learn how to create a customized Master Test Plan or Level-specific plans.
• Establish a realistic test approach and strategy, adapt the strategy as needed, based on situational feedback.
• Successfully manage software test efforts, time frames, and resources required.
• Understand the concepts of Risk Management.
• Discover a practical risk analysis technique to prioritize your tests.
• Discuss methods for measuring the test effectiveness of your organization.
• Evaluate and improve your test process.
• Plan and implement test automation.
• Work productively with users, developers, and support staff.
• Gain management skills for monitoring and controlling progress throughout the development and test process.
• Develop new skills to lead your test team.

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