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Last updated: 05/05/2009 |
Best Practices for Business Analysts Few roles in the software development process are as challenging and rewarding as that of a full function business analyst. In many cases, the business analyst role has not been carefully implemented, leaving all too many tasks to individuals unprepared or even unwilling to perform them. This full day session will address the complete range of business analyst skills and focus on 7 Best Practices for Successful Business Analysts. You will examine the reason the position is called "Business" analyst and will address the implications of that title. This session will take skills many BA's already possess and show how to leverage them for greater impact. Barbara will address the relationship between the job of the project manager, the requirements team, the test team, and the software quality assurance staff. Major project issues facing business analysts will be discussed and helpful techniques for dealing with those issues will be explored.
Unlocking the Secret of Test Metrics When managing a test effort, test leads and test managers sometimes find it difficult to empirically convey to the project manager, project team, and other interested parties, the impacts of scope changes, delays, and defects. During this tutorial, Shaun will introduce a set of well-defined test metrics related to tracking and managing a testing effort. You will learn how to improve the quality of each project by establishing this set of fundamental test metrics to better manage the software test effort. Shaun will demonstrates how to consistently apply these metrics to software projects, improving the ability of test leads and test managers to effectively and objectively communicate their findings to the rest of the organization. Through a mixture of lecture, discussion, and hands-on activities, you will gain knowledge of test metrics philosophy, basic and management test metrics, and the interpretation of those metrics.
Exploratory Testing: Design, Execute and Learn Design, execute, and learn. As a testing approach, exploratory testing is enormously powerful and widely practiced, yet it is poorly understood. Every tester can do it, but has it been done well? How do we know? Can we effectively describe how we have systematically explored and tested a product? Since each decision in exploratory testing is informed by the result of the last test, ET is cognitively structured, rather than procedurally structured. In this one-day, hands-on tutorial, Michael will present exercises, suggestions, and discussions on how to make your exploratory testing more skillful, powerful, and accountable. He will discuss the four aspects of the exploratory approach-design, execution, result interpretation, and learning. Exploratory skills and tactics will be covered, including how to guide exploratory testers concisely and effectively. You will learn methods for recording exploratory testing and ways to make exploratory it accountable to managers, regulators, and auditors. You are encouraged to bring a laptop computer, ideally Windows-based, to the workshop.
Agile Testing Practices When a software development team embraces agile practices, the testing team often struggles to understand their role in the project. This class provides participants with an overview of how testing changes when a project team adopts agile methods. Using a combination of presentations and hands on exercises, the class will cover agile principles and practices, the role of the agile tester, and collaboration within agile teams. You will learn how agile teams shift to a test first mentality and how testers are instrumental in facilitating this transformation. Finally, you will gain an understanding of executable requirements and will learn how to use FitNesse to create them. You will leave this class with a clear understanding of how traditional testers can navigate the unfamiliar waters of an agile based project.
Test Automation Through Visual Studio Team System Automation is a critical component in the success of any testing team as they deal with the need to increase test coverage while keeping test cycles short. In this class, Raif will show you how automation can be implemented using the Visual Studio Team System and the Visual Studio 2008 Test Edition. This day-long session will show you how to plan your automation effort and track it with Team Foundation Server, setting up controllers and agents and organizing your tests. Raif will also cover how to create both coded and recorded web tests, and how to make use of data sources and web plug-ins. The class will wrap up with instruction on creating a load test and a demonstration of integrating a third party automation tool with Visual Studio.
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