ISEB Software Test Management Training
5 days - £1140 + vat
Software Test Management will increase delegates awareness and skills in managing the test effort.
This Software Test Management course includes creating a test policy, a test strategy, a project test plan, and a phase test plan. Delegates explore what is required to produce documents which are effective in communicating key points, such as risks outstanding, test estimates (time and resources), and the impact of poor quality requirements or software. Attention is also given to how test progress can be reported, and how to use executive summaries in order to deliver key messages to relevant stakeholders.
Software Test Management Training Course Objectives
A major part of test management is people management and Software Test Management looks in detail at the people challenges of conducting risk identifications, gaining buy-in to the review process, gaining commitment from others in meeting entry criteria and managing a test team.
Software Test Management Course Content
1. Risk management
- Identifying analysing and mitigating risks
- Selecting suitable risk management techniques
- Challenges of implementing risk management techniques
- Making risk management happen
2. People management
- Skills required of a test manager and staff
- Organising the test team
- Motivating the team
- Gaining buy-in from other project stakeholders
3. Managing the test effort
- Benefits of a test policy
- Creating meaningful test strategies
- Creating workable test plans
- Using test reports to get what you need
- Preparing and evaluating test estimates
- Controlling the testing to achieve a desirable outcome
4. Techniques
- Techniques suitable throughout the lifecycle
- Getting techniques used by the right people at the right time
- Assess test coverage based on use of techniques
5. Test tools
- Process for selecting test tools
- Roles required for successful tool implementation
6. Test process improvement
- Origin of the TPI and TMM models
- Examples of what is assessed
- How an assessment is conducted
- Outcome of assessments
Software Test Management Coaching & Revision Day
The fourth day of this course is an exam coaching & revision day, this includes is reminder of the ISEB Practitioner Test Management syllabus.
The coaching & revision day has the following objectives:
- Become proficient in the risk management activities of risk identification, risk analysis and risk mitigation
- Understand the important content of test management documentation
- Learn how to use the common test estimation techniques
- Understand the importance of test monitoring and control and how to report on progress
- Understand the essential components of incident management
- Learn how to select appropriate types of testing, test technique and method of determining coverage
- Learn how to select and implement appropriate test tools
- Understand the different test team organisations and scenarios for stakeholder motivation
- Learn everything you need to know to pass the examination
The examination is taken the day after this exam coaching session.
ISEB Qualifications
This course prepares participants to sit the two-hour, closed book, essay-based examination leading to the Practitioner Certificate in Software Test Management, offered by the Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB).
In association with Sogeti UK Ltd
Software Test Management Training Course Prerequisites
Delegates wishing to sit the examination must already hold the ISEB Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing.
ISEB Software Testing Practitioner Course Recommended Reading
Software Testing: An ISEB Foundation by Brian Hambling - buy from amazon
Testing Object Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns and Tools - Robert Binder - buy from amazon
British Qualifications - Kogan Page - buy from amazon
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ISEB Software Test Management Training course dates
London
- 6 - 10 Sep 2010
- 6 - 10 Dec 2010
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