COURSE DESCRIPTION :This Advanced Level Course builds on the knowledge
and skills acquired at the Foundation Level. In this Course, you will
learn how to manage a testing project by implementing the mission,
Goals, and testing Processes established for your organization. Major
skills acquired through this Course are:
* Organize and lead Risk identification and Risk analysis sessions
and use the results of these sessions for test estimation, planning,
monitoring, and control
* Propose a business case, outlining the costs and benefits
expected, for test activities.
* Create and implement test plans consistent with your
organization’s test Policies and test strategies
* Ensure proper communication within the test team and with other
project stakeholders and to participate in and lead test Process
improvement initiatives
* Identify skills and resource gaps in your test team, be able to
participate in sourcing adequate resources and identify and plan
skills development within your team
Holding the ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager Certificate entitles you
to use the Certified Tester Advanced Level acronym CTAL-TM and to go
on to a subset of the higher Expert-Level software testing
certifications.
COURSE OUTLINE :
Testing Process
* Test Planning, Monitoring, and Control
* Test Planning
* Test Monitoring and Control
* Test Analysis
* Test Design
* Test Implementation
* Test Execution
* Evaluating Exit Criteria and Reporting
* Test Closure Activities
Test Management in Context
* Understanding Testing Stakeholders
* Lifecycle Activities and Work Products
* Alignment of Test Activities with Other Lifecycle Activities
* Managing Non-Functional Testing
* Managing Experience-Based Testing
Risk-Based Testing and Other Approaches
* Risk-Based Testing
* Risk-Based Testing Techniques
* Other Techniques for Test Selection
* Test Prioritisation and Effort Allocation in the Test Process
Test Documentation and Other Work Products
* Test Policy
* Test Strategy
* Master Test Plan
* Level Test Plan
* Project Risk Management
* Other Test Work Products
Test Estimation
* Test Estimation
* Defining and Using Test Metrics
* Defining and Using Test Metrics
* Business Value of Testing
* Business Value of Testing
Distributed, Outsourced, and Insourced Testing
* Distributed, Outsourced, and Insourced Testing
* Managing the Application of Industry Standards
* Managing the Application of Industry Standards
Reviews
* Management Reviews and Audits
* Managing Reviews
* Metrics for Reviews
* Managing Formal Reviews
Defect Management
* The Defect Lifecycle and the Software Development Lifecycle
* Defect Report Information
* Assessing Process Capability with Defect Reporting Information
Improving the Testing Process
* Test Improvement Process
* Improving the Testing Process
* Improving the Testing Process with TMMi
* Improving the Testing Process with TPI Next
* Improving the Testing Process with CTP
* Improving the Testing Process with STEP
Test Tools and Automation
* Tool Selection
* Tool Lifecycle
* Tool Metrics
People Skills - Team Composition
* Individual Skills
* Test Team Dynamics
* Fitting Testing Within an Organisation
* Motivation
* Communication
TARGET AUDIENCE :
SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS AND ANALYSTS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES :
* Use traceability to check completeness and consistency of defined
test conditions with respect to the test Objectives, test strategy,
and test plan.
* Use traceability to check completeness and consistency of designed
test cases with respect to the defined test conditions.
* Use Risks, prioritization, test environment and data dependencies,
and constraints to develop a test execution schedule, which is
complete and consistent with respect to the test Objectives, test
strategy, and test plan.
* Use traceability to monitor test progress for completeness and
consistency with the test Objectives, test strategy, and test plan.
* Implement a project retrospective to evaluate Processes and
discover areas to improve.
* Analyze the stakeholders, circumstances, and needs of a software
project or program, including the software development lifecycle
model, and identify the optimal test activities.
* Analyze, identify, and assess product quality Risks, summarizing
the Risks and their assessed level of Risk based on key project
stakeholder perspectives.
* Analyze given samples of test Policies and test strategies, and
create master test plans, level test plans, and other test work
products that are complete and consistent with these documents.
* For a given project, analyse project Risks and select appropriate
Risk Management options (i.e., mitigation, contingency, transference,
and/or acceptance).
* Define documentation norms and templates for test work products
that will fit organisation, lifecycle, and project needs, adapting
available templates from standards bodies where applicable.
* For a given project, create an estimate for all test Process
activities, using all applicable estimation techniques.
* Analyze and report test results in terms of the residual Risk,
defect status, test execution status, test coverage status, and
confidence to provide insight and recommendations that enable project
stakeholders to make release decisions.
* Estimate the value of testing based on cost of quality, along with
other quantitative and qualitative considerations, and communicate the
estimated value to testing stakeholders.
* Analyze a project to select the appropriate review type, and to
define a plan for conducting reviews, in order to ensure proper
execution, follow up, and accountability.
* Define Process and product metrics to be used in reviews.
* Develop a defect Management Process for a testing organisation,
including a defect report workflow that can be used to monitor and
control a project's defects throughout the testing lifecycle.
* Define the data and classification information that should be
gathered during the defect Management Process.
* Define a test Process improvement plan using the IDEAL model.
* Assess a given situation in order to devise a plan for tool
selection, including Risks, costs, and benefits.
* Using a skills Assesmentspreadsheet, analyse the strengths and
weaknesses of team members related to use of software systems, domain
and business knowledge, areas of systems development, software
testing, and interpersonal skills.
COURSE AGENDA :
Day 1
* Testing Process
* Test Management in Context
Day 2
* Risk-Based Testing and Other Approaches
* Test Documentation and Other Work Products
* Test Estimation
Day 3
* Defining and Using Test Metrics
* Business Value of Testing
* Distributed, Outsources, and Insourced Testing
* Managing the Application of Industry Standards
* Reviews
Day 4
* Defect Management
* Improving the Testing Process
* Test Tools and Automation
Day 5
* People Skills – Team Composition
* Exam
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