Proactive Testing - Risk-Based Test Planning, Design and Automation - School of Continuing Education, University Of Wisconsin

	Proactive Testing - Risk-Based Test Planning, Design and Automation

	Project managers and quality assurance/testing professionals all need to understand how to plan, design and manage software testing, which typically accounts for 50 percent of the project work. Reactive testing misses too many defects that cause project overruns and dissatisfaction. In contrast to the delayed delivery drawback associated with traditional reactive testing, proactive testing wins advocates because it hastens the cost-saving delivery of better systems by catching defects when they are easier to fix. Value to the Participant • A structured Proactive Testing model • Writing industry-accepted designs that make testing easier and more reliable • Techniques to design more thorough tests and discover overlooked conditions • Guidelines for using appropriate automated tools to enhance effectiveness -To give confidence that requirements have been met. Earn a Project Management Certificate
More ▼ Seminar Outline How Testing Can Cut Effort & Time • Testing for correctness vs. testing for errors • Reactive testing-out of time, but not tests • Proactive Testing Life Cycle model • CAT-Scan Approach to find more errors • V-model and objectives of each test level • Dynamic, passive and active static testing Test Planning Value Not Busywork • Risk elements, relation to testing • Proactive vs. reactive risk analysis • IEEE Standard for Test Documentation • Enabling manageability, reuse, selectivity • Risk-based way to define test units • Letting testing drive development • Preventing major cause of overruns Detailed Test Planning • IEEE Standard on Unit Testing • Functional (Black Box) testing strategy • Three-level top-down test planning and design • Use cases, revealing overlooked conditions • Detailed Test Plan technical document Test Design: Both Verb And Noun • Checklists find more overlooked conditions • Data formats, data and process models • Business rules, decision tables and trees • Error guessing, condition combinations • Formal, informal Test Design Specifications • Test Case Specifications vs. test data values Automated Testing Tools • Critical factors for test automation success • Types, examples of automated tools • Test execution tool considerations • Action-based frameworks aid flexibility Measuring And Managing Testing • Defect reports that prompt suitable action • Projecting when software is good enough • Measuring testing effectiveness Close ▲ Benefits and Learning Outcomes ▼ A structured Proactive Testing model Ways testing can cut time, effort, and aggravation for users, developers, and managers Writing industry-accepted test plans and test designs that make testing easier and more reliable Multiple techniques/checklists to design more thorough tests and discover overlooked conditions Guidelines for using appropriate automated tools to enhance overall testing effectiveness Applying risk analysis and reusable test ware to perform more of the important testing in less time Close ▲
	This program can be applied toward the: Project Management Certificate



	Wed.-Thu., Apr. 9-10, 2014 8:30am-4:30p.m.pm Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions) Instructor: Robin Goldsmith Fee: $845 Enrollment Limit: 25 Program No. 5025-6314 Registration Deadline: Wed., Apr. 9, 2014 Add To Registration Form Check Registration Form


	For more information, contact:
		Business & Management General Information, sce-bus@uwm.edu, 414-227-3220 Maribeth Sacho, Program Associate, msacho@uwm.edu, 414-227-3337 Anne O'Meara, Program Director, aomeara@uwm.edu, 414-227-3311

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