Quality Planning in Depth

Software Testing & QA Seminars Software Testing & QA Resources

I'm hearing about "test first" development. What is that?

How can a tester improve his or her skills?

Testing & QA .:. Software Testing & QA Seminars .:. Quality Planning in Depth

see related courses

Quality Planning in Depth

email us about private offerings of this seminar

course overview

Low quality is the single largest cost driver for most projects, accounting for 50-80% of a typical project’s costs. Understand what “quality” means for your projects and identify efficient ways to achieve that quality. Learn to balance early fault detection and prevention with traditional testing and defect removal–you’ll significantly reduce project costs and shorten project schedules.

benefits

Attendees will identify what quality means for their specific projects and will identify multiple and supportive ways to achieve that quality. You will learn to balance early fault detection and prevention with other project-appropriate methods of quality assurance.

who should attend

QA managers, development leads, project managers, test leads, and all development team members who want to improve the quality of their software products.

the seminar includes the following topics

Overview

Introduction to the course
Getting terms down
Current ideas of quality
Relationship to other software development practices
Typical quality practices by phase

Quality Plan

Key components of a quality plan
Why planning for quality is important
Cost of quality

Quality Goals

Establishing what it means to be "good enough"
The ISO 9126 definition of quality
Scaling quality attributes

Finding Faults

Reality of fault insertion
Common faults in software and where they are created
Identifying the defects that cost the most on several dimensions

General Strategy

The basic philosophy of software quality
Early removal of defects
Insulating from impact of defects
Using the PDCA cycle

Detection Toolbox

Fault detection methods
- Peer reviews
- Specifications
- Test cases
- Dynamic testing
- Prototyping
- Trials
- Gates
List of when to use and fault detection rate

Prevention

Using process audits and best practices to prevent defects from being inserted
Applying common sense
- Accurate estimates
- Charters
- Risk management
- Well understood processes and procedures
- Using good planning
- Choosing proper life cycles
- Intensive reviews
- Senior staff

Analytical Toolbox

Using basic analysis tools
- Histograms
- Pareto charts
- Graphs of various sorts

Managing Software Quality

Identify current quality levels
- Data collection
- Fault rates
- Cumulative defects
- Review timeliness
- Open defects
- Insertion rates
The challenge of changing software project culture

available instructors

Earl Beede, Steve Tockey, Jerry Deville

pmi information

Integration Management, Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Quality Management, Human Resource Management, and Risk Management

12 PDU

PMI PDU Reporting Instructions

questions?