PSQT
2008 North
Sept. 8-12, 2008
Minneapolis, MN

This tutorial covers area 4 of the Certified Software Test Professional requirements. This tutorial also counts as an elective towards the requirements of the Certified Test Manager (CTM) certification.

For cost and cities where this course might be offered, check our Public Training Schedule.To bring this course to your test team at your location, contact our Education and Professionals Services Group.

This course applies techniques introduced in the Risk Based Test Management course. Students should be familiar with inventories, risk ranking techniques, test metrics, planning, sizing, and test estimation in order to get the most benefit from this seminar.

  • Test Design
  • Analytical Test Design
    • Path Analysis
    • Data Analysis
  • Non-Analytical Test Design
  • Risk analysis and Ranking
  • Test Execution
  • Managing Test Execution and Reporting Test Progress
    • S-Curves – How they work
    • S-Curves in Practice
  • Automation Techniques and Tools
    • Publishing Results
    • Status
    • Task assignments
    • High Function Web Sites
  • Reporting and Tracking Bugs
  • Analyzing Bug Statistics
  • Tracking and Reporting the Test Effort
  • Beyond the test cycle: Adding more value

  • Risk-Based selection techniques for test design
  • Building and managing test scripts and test suites
  • Adding automation to improve the performance of the test effort
  • Techniques for tracking bugs and getting them removed
  • Adding value to the product and demonstrating that value to management

This course is useful to testers in all areas of development shops, from heavyweight to lightweight, even out to the eXtreme(s).