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Course Outline

Origins of Requirements

  • Traditional Business Analysis approaches
  • Use Cases, Scenarios, and associated Tests
  • Non-functional requirements
  • Performance considerations
  • Conformance standards
  • Utilising UML in Business Analysis

Fundamentals of Testing

  • Functional Tests
  • Regression Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Unit Tests
  • Usability Tests
  • Non-Functional Tests
  • Performance Testing
  • Load Testing
  • Stress Testing
  • Soak Testing

Strategic Test Decisions

  • Determining who makes decisions on what to test
  • The financial impact of testing irrelevant items
  • Calculating ROI, including scenarios where analysis fails
  • The specific role of the Test Manager

The Testing Process

  • Viewing testing as both a process and a strategy
  • Identifying specific testing needs
  • Gathering requirements through use cases and user stories
  • Scoping by choosing and prioritising scenarios
  • Designing effective tests
  • Preparations for data setup
  • Setting up the testing environment
  • Creating or recording test scripts
  • Executing the tests
  • Conducting analysis and generating reports
  • Drawing conclusions and identifying areas for improvement
  • Determining the appropriate time to stop testing

Product Owners and Testing

  • The customer representative’s influence on test priority
  • Techniques for prioritising tests
  • Writing effective user stories for UAT
  • Defining acceptance criteria
  • A group exercise focused on generating customer requirements, writing stories based on those requirements, and creating corresponding tests

Managing the Sprint

  • Aligning the sprint backlog with test user stories
  • A collaborative group exercise to plan a sprint

Sprint Completion

  • The Scrum review meeting as a critical test event

Is Agile and Scrum Suitable for You?

  • A comprehensive review of the Scrum process
  • Comparative analysis with other methodologies
  • The benefits of pair programming
  • Open Question and Answer session

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this course.

 14 Hours

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