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Course Outline
Project Management
- Distinguishing between project management, line management, maintenance, and support
- Project definition and various project typologies
- General management principles and specific project management practices
- Management styles and their applications
- Unique characteristics of IT projects
- Foundational project processes
- Project methodologies: iterative, incremental, waterfall, agile, and lean
- Project phases and lifecycle
- Roles within project management
- Project documentation and essential artifacts
- Soft skills and personnel management
- Project standards and frameworks: PRINCE2, PMBOK, PMI, IPMA, and others
Business Analysis and Requirements Engineering Fundamentals
- Defining business goals
- Business analysis, business process management, and business process improvement
- The boundary between business analysis and system analysis
- System stakeholders, users, context, and boundaries
- The necessity of requirements
- Understanding requirements engineering
- The boundary between requirements engineering and architectural design
- Where requirements engineering is often overlooked
- Requirements engineering in iterative, lean, and agile development, as well as continuous integration (FDD, DDD, BDD, TDD)
- Foundational requirements engineering process, roles, and artifacts
- Standards and certifications: BABOK, ISO/IEEE 29148, IREB, BCS, IIBA
Architecture and Development Fundamentals
- Programming languages – structural and object-oriented paradigms
- Object-oriented development – historical context and future directions
- Modularity, portability, maintainability, and scalability of architectures
- Definition and types of software architectures
- Enterprise architecture versus system architecture
- Programming styles
- Programming environments
- Common programming mistakes and strategies to avoid and prevent them
- Modeling architecture and components
- SOA, Web Services, and microservices
- Automated builds and continuous integration
- The extent of architecture design in projects
- Extreme programming, TDD, and refactoring
Quality Assurance and Testing Fundamentals
- Product quality: definitions, ISO 25010, FURPS, etc.
- Product quality, user experience, Kano Model, customer experience management, and total quality
- User-centered design, personas, and strategies to personalize quality
- Just-enough quality
- Difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Risk strategies in quality control
- Components of quality assurance: requirements, process control, configuration and change management, verification, validation, testing, static testing, and static analysis
- Risk-based quality assurance
- Risk-based testing
- Risk-driven development
- Boehm’s curve in quality assurance and testing
- The four testing schools – identifying the best fit for your needs
Process Types, Maturity, and Process Improvement
- The evolution of IT processes: from Alan Turing and Big Blue to the lean startup
- Process-oriented organizations
- History of processes in crafts and industries
- Process modeling: UML, BPMN, and other methods
- Process management, optimization, re-engineering, and management systems
- Innovative process approaches: Deming, Juran, TPS, Kaizen
- Is quality free? (Philip Crosby)
- The need for and history of maturity improvement: CMMI, SPICE, and other maturity scales
- Special maturity types: TMM, TPI (for testing), Requirements Engineering Maturity (Gorschek)
- Process maturity versus product maturity: correlations and causal relationships
- Process maturity versus business success: correlations and causal relationships
- A neglected lesson: Automated Defect Prevention and the next leap in productivity
- Initiatives: TQM, Six Sigma, agile retrospectives, process frameworks
Requirements Elicitation, Negotiation, Consolidation, and Management
- Finding requirements: what, when, and by whom
- Stakeholder classification
- Forgotten stakeholders
- Defining system context – identifying requirements sources
- Elicitation methods and techniques
- Prototyping, personas, and elicitation through testing (exploratory and other types)
- Marketing and requirements elicitation – MDRA ("Market-Driven Requirements Engineering")
- Prioritizing requirements: MoSCoW, Karl Wiegers, and other techniques (including agile MoSCoW)
- Refining requirements – agile "specification by example"
- Requirements negotiation: types of conflicts and conflict-solving methods
- Resolving internal incongruence among requirement types (e.g., security versus ease of use)
- Requirements traceability – why and how
- Requirements status changes
- Requirements Configuration Change Control (CCM), versioning, and baselines
- Product view and project view on requirements
- Product management and requirements management in projects
Requirements Analysis, Modeling, Specification, Verification, and Validation
- Analysis as the thinking and re-thinking between elicitation and specification
- The iterative nature of the requirements process, even in sequential projects
- Describing requirements in natural language: risks and benefits
- Requirements modeling: benefits and costs
- Rules for using natural language in requirements specification
- Defining and managing requirements glossaries
- UML, BPMN, and other formal and semi-formal modeling notations for requirements
- Using document and sentence templates for requirements description
- Verification of requirements – goals, levels, and methods
- Validation – using prototyping, reviews, inspections, and testing
- Requirements validation and system validation
Test Design, Test Execution, and Exploratory Testing
- Test design: optimizing time and resources after risk-based testing
- Test design "from infinity to here" – recognizing that exhaustive testing is impossible
- Test cases and test scenarios
- Test design across various test levels (from unit to system test)
- Test design for static and dynamic testing
- Business-oriented and technique-oriented test design ("black-box" and "white-box")
- Attempting to break the system ("negative testing") and supporting developers (acceptance testing)
- Achieving test coverage – various test coverage measures
- Experience-based test design
- Designing test cases from requirements and system models
- Test design heuristics and exploratory testing
- When to design test cases? – traditional versus exploratory approaches
- Describing test cases – determining the appropriate level of detail
- Test execution – psychological aspects
- Test execution – logging and reporting
- Designing tests for "non-functional" testing
- Automatic test design and MBT (Model-Based Testing)
Test Organization, Management, and Automation
- Test levels (or phases)
- Who performs testing and when? – various solutions
- Test environments: cost, administration, access, and responsibility
- Simulators, emulators, and virtual test environments
- Testing in agile scrum
- Test team organization and roles
- Test process
- Test automation – identifying automatable tasks
- Test execution automation – approaches and tools
Requirements
None.
63 Hours
Testimonials (3)
hands on exercises, easier to retain information
ashley bolen - Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Course - Test Automation with Selenium
Key topics can be discussed and agreed upon with the trainer in advance. Relaxed and pleasant atmosphere during the seminar days.
Lorenz - Continentale Lebensversicherung AG
Course - Advanced Selenium
I gained new knowledge and I'm pretty confident about it. Nothing unclear.
