Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success
In Search of Excellent Requirements
Requirements Writing Workshop
Exploring User Requirements with Use Cases
Inspections and Peer Reviews
Project Management: The Team Approach
Patterns in Project Success, Patterns in Project Failure
Estimation: Size Does Matter!
Quality Assurance and Testing: Ship a Great Product!
Relationship Awareness with the SDI

All of our workshops are available onsite - please contact us for details!

QA and Test Workshop - Ship a Great Product!

Quality Assurance and Software Testing are among the least glamorous positions in the software development world. Hence they are often the most neglected. Interestingly, while most industries tend to improve product quality over time by orders of magnitude, there are often times we feel that software is headed in the opposite direction.

Taking a lesson from the rest of the world, the challenges surrounding the task of shipping a great product are not insurmountable. Surprisingly, it has been shown that embracing quality and test techniques that help you ship a great product will reduce your risk and chaos, and will cost you less money than staying with the status quo.

This workshop will be useful to software engineers, managers, testers, user representatives, and anyone else who would be interested in understanding how these approaches may benefit their team in shipping software applications.

This one-day session provides attendees with a thorough understanding of what Quality Assurance and Testing are all about. This will allow attendees to make informed decisions about how to best utilize existing resources to improve the odds of shipping a great product. We will reveal to participants how to create an approach to Quality to optimize their experience, through a series of practice sessions, exercises, and group discussions.

You will gain broad exposure to industrial strength QA and Testing Practices, obtain a clear, objective view of the value to be gained with these practices, and the associated costs you can expect to incur.

How these practices work with one another to form a cohesive approach to software development will be explored, along with a look at their relationships to other components of a complete software development approaches.

A blend of lecture, class discussion, group discussions, and practice sessions will be utilized. Practice sessions will give attendees experience in working with test and inspection techniques, and developing an action plan to implement a reasonable test strategy in your organization.

Outline

Introduction to Pragmatic QA and Test Approaches

• Introduction to seminar, objectives, participant expectations
• The context for building quality products
• Goals, Strategies, and Tactics
• Planning a strong approach: specifying Quality Requirements
• The V-Model for Test
• The Expanded V-Model
• Survey of test approaches
• Survey of test principles
• Test Automation
• Putting it all together

Details of critical Test Management practices:

• Triage: making the best use of available time
• Learning from your mistakes, staying on a moving track
• Knowing when you are done
• Working on the same team

Throughout the session, you will have hands-on Practice Sessions:

• Initial testing exercise: Is software really this difficult to test?
• Selecting the right test cases: Equivalence
• Testing requirements and other artifacts
• Assessing and improving code
• Peer Review approaches

In-depth group discussions will address:

• Your drivers for improving Test and Quality practices
• Industry case studies: successes and failures
• Test Support tools: home-grown and third-party

Please contact us for more information regarding this workshop.

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