As a test manager, you’re probably looking for ways to do better and ways to demonstrate your team’s value and to find ways to improve it. This tutorial delivers. You’ll learn techniques to assess your team that are driven by insightful questions and careful data analysis. By applying the ideas in this tutorial to each of the twelve critical testing processes, you’ll know where you and your team stand.
The objectives for this course are as follows:
Understand the value of testing to their organizations
Adapt a generic testing process to their specific needs
Calculate the effectiveness of testing
Adapt a generic test context identification process to their specific needs
Identify alignment issues between testing and the rest of the organization
Adapt a generic quality risk analysis process to their specific needs
Assess the extent to which testing properly addresses the quality risks
Adapt a generic test estimation process to their specific needs
Calculate the return on the testing investment
Adapt a generic test planning process to their specific needs
Measure the quality of the test plan for all the entire project team
Adapt a generic test team development process to their specific needs
Identify skills strengths and weaknesses within the test team and across the team as a whole
Adapt a generic test system development process to their specific needs
Measure test coverage against documented specifications and against quality risks
Adapt a generic test release management process to their specific needs
Quantify the percentage of test execution effort spent to test release overhead
Adapt a generic test execution process to their specific needs
Measure the extent to which test results are properly interpreted
Adapt a generic bug reporting process to their specific needs
Assess the extent to which the bug reports meet the needs of the various readers
Adapt a generic test results reporting process to their specific needs
Assess the extent to which the test results reports meet the needs of the project team
Adapt a generic change management process to their specific needs
Assess the extent to which the change management process takes into account the testing process
Understand how to apply the results of the assessment exercises to measure and optimize the test process
Purchase of the course includes:
Instructor-led one-day course
Complimentary access to the e-learning version of this course for all attendees from two weeks prior to the course until two weeks following the course
Shipment of printed copies of written course
A downloadable copy of the complete note set. Download the materials to a PC or mobile device. There is no expiration date on access to this valuable resource as they will be downloadable. Digital rights management and intellectual property rights are protected by some limitations such as the inability to share the file with others. Further, while the materials can be printed, each page includes a prominent watermark.
Course completion certificate (often used for employer reimbursement)
Blended e-learning, licenses and volume discounts are also available for companies.
