What is testing?

• Identify typical objectives of testing
• Differentiate testing from debugging

Why is Testing Necessary?

• Give examples of why testing is necessary
• Testing’s Contributions to Success
• Quality Assurance and Testing
• Errors, Defects, and Failures
• Defects, Root Causes and Effects

Seven Testing Principles Test Process

• Test Process in Context
• Test Activities and Tasks
• Test Work Products
• Traceability between the Test Basis and Test Work Products

The Psychology of Testing

• Human Psychology and Testing
• Tester’s and Developer’s Mindsets

• Software Development Lifecycle Models
• Software Development and Software Testing
• Software Development Lifecycle Models in Context

Test Levels

• Component Testing
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• Acceptance Testing

Test Types

• Functional Testing
• Non-functional Testing
• White-box Testing
• Change-related Testing
• Test Types and Test Levels

Maintenance Testing

• Triggers for Maintenance
• Impact Analysis for Maintenance

What is testing?

• Identify typical objectives of testing
• Differentiate testing from debugging

Why is Testing Necessary?

• Give examples of why testing is necessary
• Testing’s Contributions to Success
• Quality Assurance and Testing
• Errors, Defects, and Failures
• Defects, Root Causes and Effects

Seven Testing Principles Test Process

• Test Process in Context
• Test Activities and Tasks
• Test Work Products
• Traceability between the Test Basis and Test Work Products

The Psychology of Testing

• Human Psychology and Testing
• Tester’s and Developer’s Mindsets

• Choosing Test Techniques
• Categories of Test Techniques and Their Characteristics

Black-box Test Techniques

• Equivalence Partitioning
• Boundary Value Analysis
• Decision Table Testing
• State Transition Testing
• Use Case Testing

White-box Test Techniques

• Statement Testing and Coverage
• Decision Testing and Coverage
• The Value of Statement and Decision Testing

Experience-based Test Techniques

• Error Guessing
• Exploratory Testing
• Checklist-based Testing

• Identify typical objectives of testing
• Differentiate testing from debugging

Why is Testing Necessary?

• Give examples of why testing is necessary
• Testing’s Contributions to Success
• Quality Assurance and Testing
• Errors, Defects, and Failures
• Defects, Root Causes and Effects

Seven Testing Principles Test Process

• Test Process in Context
• Test Activities and Tasks
• Test Work Products
• Traceability between the Test Basis and Test Work Products

The Psychology of Testing

• Human Psychology and Testing
• Tester’s and Developer’s Mindsets

• Introduction
• Test Planning, Monitoring and Control
  • How Test Strategies effects test planning
  • Test Planning
  • Test Monitoring and Control
• Test Analysis and Test Design (apply primarily for test analyst)
• Test Implementation and Execution
  • Preconditions for test Implementation
  • Advantages and disadvantages of early test Implementation
• Evaluating Exit Criteria and Reporting
  • Information necessary to collect during test process to support accurate reporting and evaluation against exit criteria
• Test Closure Activities
• Case studies ,Debrief and Mock test

• Introduction
• Test Management in Context
• Understanding Testing Stakeholders
• Additional Software Development Lifecycle Activities and Work Products
• Alignment of Test Activities and Other Lifecycle Activities
• Managing Non Functional Testing
• Managing Experience-Based Testing
• Case studies , Debrief and Mock test
  • Risk-Based Testing and Other Approaches for Test Prioritization and Effort Allocation
• Different ways Risk-Based Testing responds to risk
• Risk-Based Testing Activities
  • Risk Identification techniques
  • Risk Assessment Techniques
  • Risk Mitigation Activities
• Risk Based Techniques
  • Informal approaches
• Pragmatic risk analysis and management (PRAM)
• Systematic software testing (SST)
  • Formal approaches
• Hazard Analysis
• Cost of Exposure
• Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Test Prioritization and Effort Allocation in the Test Process
  • Test Triage
• Case studies , Debrief and Mock test
• Test Documentation and Other Work Products
• Quality Policy
• Test Handbook – Test Policy
• Test Strategy
• Master Test Plan
• Level Test Plan
• Project Risk Management
• Other Test Work Products
• Case studies , Debrief and Mock test
• Test Estimation
• Factors that can influence the cost, effort and duration of the test activity
  • Factors which arise from the Process
  • Factors which arise from the People
  • Factors which arise from the nature of the project, tools

• Estimation techniques
  • Intuition,
  • Work breakdown structure
  • Test Point Analysis
  • Wide Band Delphi
  • Predictive models (function points, LOC…)
•  Defining and Using Test Metrics

• Measure Theory
• Metrics definition and selection
• Presenting measurement values
• Several Test Metrics

• Test Case based Metrics
• Test basis and test object based Metrics
• Defect Based Metrics
• Cost or Effort based Metrics
• Business Value of Testing
• Distributed, Outsourced, and Insourced Testing
• Managing the Application of Industry Standards
• Case studies , Debrief and Mock test

• Introduction
• Benefits of reviews as compared to dynamic testing
• Steps to Introduce reviews
• Change Control Board Process
• IEEE 1028 Standard for SoJware Reviews
• Types of Reviews
• Comparison
• Relative strength
• Weakness
• Fields of use
• Management Reviews and Audits
• Managing Reviews – Success factors for reviews
• Metrics for Reviews
• Managing Formal Reviews
• Case studies , Debrief and Mock test

• IEEE 1044 – Incident management life cycle
• Defect Workflow and States
• Standard classification of soJware anomalies according to IEEE 1044
• Steps and activities in each step
• Managing Invalid and Duplicate Defect Reports
• Cross-Functional Defect Management
• Defect Report Information
• Defect Metrics
• Assessing Process Capability with Defect Report Information
• Defect Taxonomy
• Case studies , Debrief and Mock test