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Professional Tester Boot Camp

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9/9/2010 - 9/10/2010 Eric Rimbey ($1,395)	register now

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course overview

How do professional testers test software? This course teaches the techniques, tips, tricks, and strategies used by test professionals. You will learn and apply numerous detailed test design strategies for black-box (functional) testing and system testing. You will also learn practical techniques for planning, designing, and executing effective testing on real software projects. Determine how much testing is enough for your project, whether your test cases are adequate, and how to minimize wasted testing effort. This seminar emphasizes black box (functional) testing and system testing.

who should attend

This seminar will be useful to testers, test leads, quality assurance engineers, and quality assurance leads. If you're a developer, see Developer Testing Boot Camp.

the seminar includes the following topics

Test Planning

How to make your testing more effective
Making your testing more efficient
Evaluating test case designs
When to plan for testing
Relating testing to other software development activities
Evaluating test case designs
Determining how much testing is enough

Domain Testing

Where to find domain specifications
Analyzing domain specifications
Common domain defects you should test for
Designing input domain tests
Designing output domain tests
Analyzing domain boundaries

Testing from Requirements

How to insure that every requirement is tested
Deciding the number of test cases necessary for each requirement
Creating test cases from use cases
Creating test cases from relationship models
Creating test cases from state-transition models

Tool Support for Testing

Determining which tools are useful for supporting testing activities

Pairwise Testing

When is pairwise testing useful?
Learn how to reduce the number of test cases when you have to test all combinations. For example:
o  Multiple operating systems
o  Multiple web browsers
o  Plug-ins
o  Web server software
o  Server operating systems
Downloadable software to figure out your test cases
Commercial tools that can help with pairwise testing

Test Automation

Improving the efficiency of testing with automation
Why is test automation harder than just recording and playing back keystrokes?
How to get started with data driven test automation
Advantages of keyword driven test automation
Commercial tools/frameworks to support keyword driven test automation

Testing the Tests

How do you know your tests are reliable?
How do you know your tests are effective?
How do you uncover and improve low quality tests?

available instructors

Steve Tockey, Eric Rimbey

pmi information

Quality Management

4 PDUs

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