Practitioner Certificate in Software Test Management Training – 3 days – Please call for a quote
Software Test Management Training – ISEB accredited
Software Test Management will increase delegate awareness and skills in managing the test effort.
This 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 Training 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
ISEB Certificates
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).
Software Test Management Course Prerequisites
Delegates wishing to sit the examination must already hold the ISEB Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing.
Software Test Management Course Recommended Reading
Software Testing: An ISEB Foundation - Brian Hambling, Peter Morgan & Angelina Samaroo – buy from amazon
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