Tutorials: Series W

Tutorials: Series W
Wednesday, April 4, 2001

Two concurrent tutorials taught by nationally recognized quality experts. Each tutorial is a one full day of an in-depth instruction in a specific software quality topic.

You must specify which tutorial you wish to attend (W1 through W2)

Tutorials marked with (CSTP) will count as one day of training towards the requirements for the Certified Software Testing Professional

W1	Proactive User Acceptance Testing (Basic) (CSTP, Elective)	Robin F. Goldsmith JD
W2	Practical Test Management (Basic) (CSTP)	Brian Hambling

Or PSQT/PSTT Conference Sessions

Managing Software Testing for eCommerce Projects	Thomas McCabe
How Do You Know When You Are Done Tesing?	Richard Bender
How to Release the Hiden Power of Inspection	Dr. Rebecca Staton-Reinstein
Measuring the Software Testing Process	Linda Westfall
Using the Cost of Quality Approach for Software: A Progress Report	Herb Krasner
16 Track Presentations
The Software Quality Summit

Tutorial #W1 (Wednesday 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.)

This tutorial counts as one day of training towards the Certified Software Test Professional requirements.

Users/customers have a very strong need to be sure the systems they depend on actually meet business requirements, work properly, and truly help them do their jobs efficiently and effectively. However, users seldom are confident or comfortable testing system acceptability. This intensive interactive seminar shows users what they need to know to confidently make the best use of their time planning and conducting acceptance tests that catch more defects at the traditional tail-end of development, while also contributing in appropriate ways to reducing the number of errors that get through the development process for them to catch in UAT. Exercises give practice using practical methods and techniques.

Participants will learn:

Appropriate testing roles for users, developers, and professional testers; and what each shouldn't test.

How Proactive TestingÔ throughout the life cycle reduces the number of errors left to find in UAT.

Key testing concepts, techniques, and strategies that facilitate adaptation to your situation.

Systematically expanding acceptance criteria to an acceptance test plan, test designs, and test cases.

Supplementing with requirements-based tests, use cases, and high-level structural white box tests.

Techniques for obtaining/capturing test data and carrying out acceptance tests.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for business managers and system users responsible for conducting user acceptance testing of systems they must depend on, as well as for system managers, project leaders, analysts, developers, quality/testing professionals, and auditors.

Defining acceptance test strategy up-front Source and role of acceptance criteria

Tutorial #W2 (Wednesday 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.)

This tutorial counts as one day of training towards the Certified Software Test Professional requirements.

Most test professionals agree that testing is a risk reduction process. We also agree that the earlier the testing starts, the better the quality of the software. We do not always get the opportunity to be 'first in line', but we are always the last in the line of activities within the SDLC. No amount of early testing will change that. With this burden of responsibility, how do we manage our testing so that we deliver what is required? First of all, we need to know what needs to be done. The ideal is one hundred percent functional coverage, and no outstanding defects. The reality is new requirements, new people, new technologies, new budgets - same deadlines.This tutorial will provide templates for producing a test strategy and a test plan, which will be used as a basis for suggestions on how to cope with changes to these. Delegates will have the opportunity to tailor these to their own needs, based on class discussions.

Angelina Samaroo BEng(Hons), CEng, MRAeS, AMIEE has spent her entire career in software testing. She started in the defence industry, learning testing from first principles, working closely with designers and developers. For the last two years she has worked in the commercial sector, paying particular attention to the testing of e-business systems, and has very recently devised a process for turning the many standards and guidelines for testing into practical templates for every-day use. She is an approved trainer for the UK's iseb Foundation Certificate in Software Testing, and has trained over two hundred delegates - including 30 delegates at the EuroSTAR conference in Copenhagen, December 2000.

Brian Hambling BA, MSc, Ceng, MIEE, MBCS has worked in the software industry for over 25 years. A career that began with software development for real-time avionics systems has moved steadily in the direction of tackling the quality concerns that have always inflicted high cost and uncertainty on the Information Technology industry. Brian has now experienced the software business across a very broad spectrum of application and business domains, from mission-critical defence systems to business-critical e-business systems. He has been active throughout in seeking to develop, promote and implement quality enhancing practices and he has contributed to the creation of standards, the education of developers and quality specialists, the implementation of quality systems through the TickIT scheme and, more recently, the certification of software testing professionals. Brian is now Technical Director of Imago^QA, the UK’s leading software testing consultancy.

Tutorials: Series W Wednesday, April 4, 2001

Tutorial #W1 (Wednesday 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.)

Tutorial #W2 (Wednesday 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.)

Tutorials: Series W
Wednesday, April 4, 2001