- Factors critical for managing the test process
- Key roles and responsibilities of test managers in small and large organizations
- Creation and execution of a practical and dynamic Master Test Plan
- Steps to develop a prioritized set of test objectives based on risk
- Skills and approaches to manage the test effort—from start to finish
Whether you are a test manager leading a small test team, the director managing multiple test teams, or a development manager or lead who is responsible for testing, you already know that poor testing can waste time and money—and sometimes even destroy a project or product.
In this interactive, discussion-oriented course, you’ll learn about and explore what it takes to develop, maintain, and execute a successful test strategy. Rather than teaching an inflexible checklist process of “things to do” for testing, you’ll learn to think and plan the test effort based on the situations you face in your project and product—the application to test; the development environment and lifecycle; time available for testing; test resources and staff skills; risk factors; and all of the variables that should drive testing decisions.
The purpose of the test approach—or strategy—is to manage and direct the test effort to a successful conclusion by finding the important defects early and providing project stakeholders with the information they need to make informed decisions. Through numerous class discussions and explorations, you’ll learn the critical success factors for developing a practical test approach and the roles that testers and test managers play in successful development projects.
For a test strategy to have value, it must be skillfully implemented and updated as the project unfolds. Risks must continuously be re-evaluated based on both internal and external influences. Exit criteria must be reviewed and changed if necessary based upon the current state of the project. Find out what it takes to run a test project from early planning and resourcing, developing the tests, executing tests, reporting test results, and, finally, evaluating the process.
This course is appropriate for anyone who influences the direction of the testing strategy—test managers, development managers responsible for testing, test leads, senior testers—and QA analysts, test leads, and senior test engineers and analysts. Participants should have at least two years of test experience and some leadership experience or training.
