The usability testing had never revealed how hard it was to do it with your own real data as opposed to doing it in the usability lab under artificial circumstances. -- Scott Cook

Test Planning
Fundamental Series

Parts 1 thru 4: Test Planning

Abstract: This WEBinar series describes testing terminology, setting of test objectives, and test planning, execution, and reporting.

This material is excerpted from QAI's Test Planning Course, Boot Camp for Software Testers.

Part 1: Test Objectives 
How to set test objectives. Shows the testing lifecycle, testing economics, the tester's workbench, and test objectives.

• Test lifecycle
  Understanding the continuous testing model, as an alternative to the "big bang" model of testing
• Test economics
  Learning how testing throughout the lifecycle, including requirements, saves more money than testing at the end of the process
• Tester's workbench
  Diagramming the Plan, Do, Check, and Act model for testers, including quality control checking the testing itself
• Setting test objectives
  Knowing the requirements statement for a testing project, since when test objectives are complete, testing is complete

Part 2: Test Design 
How to identify business and structural functions, and build test matrixes and test cases. 

• General and detailed design of tests
  Understanding test categories and types
• Business and structural functions of tests
  Knowing business functions to be tested from requirements, and structural functions to be tested showing software performance
• Test matrixes
  Function/test matrices, test/cycle matrices, prioritization
• Test cases 
  Doing test case design, whether batch or scripts for online

Part 3: Test Execution
How to code and execute test cases, test scripts and use other testing methods; How to use regression testing

• coding and execution of test cases
  Including testing methods and techniques
• test scripts
  With prerequisites, setups, instructions, and multiple scenarios
• testing methods
  Eliminating unneeded redundancy, making it both efficient and effective
• regression testing
  With system boundaries, changing programs and data, assuring unchanged coding still works

Part 4: Test Reporting
How to report testing activity including defects remaining, likelihood of failure, and what has and has not been tested. 

• test reporting activity
  Including individual defects, defect groups and types, graphical reports, and backlogs
• success of testing
  Depicted to developers and managers, including repeated themes and process errors
• defects remaining
  Showing testing progress made and remaining, defects found, corrected, and uncorrected
• likelihood of failure
  Based on number of critical, major, and minor defects remaining
• what has and has not been tested
  Knowing that whatever has not been tested has to be certified as not working.

Conducted  Wed. April 6 - July 6, 2011

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All WEBinars now 1 hour and 15 minutes in length.

Recertification credits: 1.25 PDU (PMI)

Conducted:
Wed. April 6,  2011
Wed. May 4,  2011
Wed. June 1,  2011
Wed. July 6,  2011

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Parts 1 thru 4, Test Planning

$84.95 USD

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