- Identify and focus on “what really matters”
- Listen to and learn from your key context drivers
- Create practical decision-making workflows
- Dynamically prioritize testing objectives and tasks
- Triage ruthlessly to deliver the most value with limited time
- Avoid wasteful re-work when implementing and executing tests
Picture a cast-in-concrete delivery date looming on your project’s horizon. While you have precious little time remaining, the development team keeps delivering incomplete builds of less-than-stable code. Is this a “death march” project, or can the testing team actually do something useful—perhaps even save the day?
Based on successful testing experiences from outrageously turbulent projects, Testing Under Pressure reveals proven principles that you can immediately apply to your own testing world. Rather than wondering if the sky is falling, you’ll develop a set of practical, repeatable skills and tools to keep yourself and your team focused on what really matters most. Instead of a checklist of what to do next, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to think on your feet and decide every week—and every day—the most important things to do next.
In this hands-on class, you’ll practice ways to “triage” your testing focus and bug-finding priorities and discover how to: widen the testing net with a rich “variety” of testing ideas; build a dynamic “heap” of ready-to-go tests; avoid costly rework developing and executing tests; always know the “last best build” for release; and actively monitor and act on the business, technological, and organizational “context” drivers to guide your testing.
With real-world examples, interactive exercises, and lively group discussions to keep the energy up, you’ll learn ways to apply these practices in your project, your team’s development lifecycle, and your organization. If you are looking for effective testing strategies when time is running out, development is late, and change is rampant, this class is for you.
Test managers, test leads, and testers who operate in an environment in which projects have firm release deadlines, priorities change constantly, or testing resources are scarce will benefit from this course. Project managers, QA managers, and development managers in these same circumstances will benefit from the approaches and skills developed in Testing Under Pressure.
