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3-40 How to Test Business Information Systems
A 2-day Skills Acquisition Experience
As organizations increase their dependence on information technology, software testing becomes more and more of a survival skill for the company. As more work is outsourced and more applications are off-the-shelf software, testing the business solution becomes more critical - and even more challenging. Your organization is only as good as your information systems. As a consequence, testing business information systems has become a corporate priority, not another assignment for an overworked information technology department. People with sufficient business acumen to decide what is important to the business community need to be involved in defining, designing, testing, and evaluating evolving information technology solutions.
This course presents topics, tools, and techniques on how to plan, structure and prepare static and dynamic testing efficiently and effectively in the real world. Well-planned and executed testing is one of the best investments an organization can make to reduce the risk of costly production problems in information technology. Better testing skills and methods can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to test new or evolving software applications and the business processes that use them.
Note: The difference between the 2-day and the 3-day version is the use of an extensive case study that gives participants ample opportunity to try the techniques out themselves on a real-life based business scenario.
Topics
- List the 7 major steps of a well-defined testing methodology
- Recognize unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing
- Select the appropriate testing strategy to reduce the business risks
- Use requirements management principles to focus the test effort
- Assess technology impact, i.e., web-based, client/server, mainframe
- Define the strategic and scheduling components of a test plan
- Create a test plan that is synchronized with your strategy
- Assemble the 17 key elements of effective test plans
- Determine when to use walkthroughs, reviews, and inspections
- Select the appropriate approach for evaluating critical deliverables
- Evaluate business requirements for testability
- Apply equivalence classes, boundary values and probable errors
- Create audience-focused test scripts to maximize repeatability
- Identify the minimal set of cases to achieve defined testing goals
- Create an effective problem report to aid defect removal
- Capture critical test execution information consistently
- Generate testing statistics that make a difference
- Define 7 activities to improve your approach to testing
- Identify the critical subset of tests essential for crunch-time testing
- Create problem reports that contain the critical information developers need
- Improve all of your testing processes by capturing and using testing metrics
- Create a "low-fat" test plan for small projects, enhancements and modifications
Who Should Attend?
- Test Engineers
- Quality Analysts
- Test Managers
- Quality Engineers
- Business Systems Analysts
- Project Managers
- End-users responsible for acceptance testing
- Anyone responsible for planning, preparing, and/or managing the business system software testing process
Course Dates & Locations:
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Enrollment |
| December 10-12, 2007 |
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT |
$750 |
Online |
To register call 317.275.2870 |
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