Workshops
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Connecting the Dots
3-day workshop on managing and conducting a large-scale systems integration project
This 3-day course is primarily experiential, with participants working in groups on exercises designed to teach the practical skills needed to conceptualize, plan, manage and conduct a systems integration test that addresses the integration risks of a fictitious large project. The exercises are supplemented with course notes, sample deliverables, and useful tips from the instructor’s extensive real-world experience. Throughout, we will discuss strategies and techniques for forestalling and dealing with issues when we have less-than-perfect conditions for our test. ( Full description...)
System/Integration Risk Assessment for Testing
Risk-based testing is an obvious way to contain the costs of testing, by focusing test efforts on the system areas where undetected bugs could do the most harm. To be an effective strategy, risk-based testing requires both accurate assessment of system risks and stakeholder buy-in. (Full description...)
Developing an Effective Test Strategy
A test strategy is a key deliverable in most standardized test processes. A good strategy document can be a powerful tool for thinking about, communicating, and obtaining stakeholder buy-in for what needs to be tested to what level of rigour, and what will be required to make that happen. Alternatively, it can be a next-to-useless pile of paper, full of boilerplate text that nobody cares about or wants to read. (Full description...)
Planning the Endgame
Test managers and leads are expected to predict how long they will need to test. But the elapsed time for testing will ultimately be decided, not merely by the number of hours in the schedule for the test team, but by the quality of the system available to test, the development team’s turnaround time for bug fixes, and the stakeholders’ appetite for risk. (Full description...)