Fundamentals of Testing for Business Analysts Training

Course Topics

1. Welcome to Fundamentals of Testing
   • Course Objectives
   • Course Agenda and Goals
2. Introduction
   • Quality Assurance and Testing Definitions
   • Effective QA and Testing Methods
   • Reasons for Testing
   • Software Quality Observations and Misconceptions
   • Essential Quality Control Items
   • Best Practices
   • Basic Testing Process
   • Project Phases
   • Build Quality Processes
   • Define Test Processes
   • Deliverables of the Testing Process
   • Preparing for Success
   • Test Activities Software Development Life Cycle
   • The Software Test Team
3. Overview of Project Management for Testing
   • Project Characteristics
   • Project Management Features
   • Dimensions of Complexity
   • Challenges of Software Development
   • Information Systems Project Management
   • Systems Approach to Project Management
   • Effective Software Test Management Practices
   • Test Management Phases
   • Risk Factors in Software Development
   • Risk Analysis in Testing
4. Role of the Business Analyst in the Testing Process
   • Business Analyst Role in the Verification Process
   • Business Analyst Role in the Validation Process
   • Involvement in Informal Reviews
   • Involvement in Formal Reviews
   • Working with End Users During User Acceptance Testing
   • Managing Change During the Development Process
   • Risks of Having the Business Analyst Perform the Testing
5. Business Requirements Document
   • Requirement Management Definitions
   • Requirement Workflow and Disciplines
   • Systems Development Problems and Solutions
   • Requirement Needs verses Wants
   • Baseline Requirements
   • Communication Gaps
   • Requirements Based Testing Sources
   • Business Requirements
   • Critical Success Factors
   • How do you know when you have good requirements
6. Testing Profile and Test Management
   • Customer, User, and Functional Profiles
   • Direct and Indirect Audiences
   • Stakeholders
   • Test Strategy Development using Profiles
7. Risk Analysis
   • Risk Factors and Considerations
   • Determining and Analyzing Risk
   • Identifying and Prioritizing Risks
8. Test Strategy Development
   • Requirement and Risk Based Approaches
   • Test Strategy Development and Goals
   • Test Strategy Sample Schedules and Charts
9. Testing Methods and Techniques
   • Static verses Dynamic Testing
   • Black Box (Functional) Testing
   • Gray Box Testing
   • White Box (Structural) Testing
   • Black Box verses White Box Testing
   • Prioritization Factors
   • Negative verses Positive Tests
   • Measuring Code Coverage
   • Deriving Test Cases
   • Error Classification and Types
   • Data and Logic Errors
   • Input and Output Errors
   • Defining a Good Test
10. Testing Levels and Type
    • Unit Testing
    • Integration Testing
    • Smoke Testing/Basic Integrity Testing
    • Functional Testing
    • System Testing
    • End to End Testing
    • User Acceptance Testing
    • Performance Testing
    • Load and Stress Testing
    • Usability Testing
    • Configuration Testing
    • Security Testing
    • Graphical User Interface (GUI) Testing
    • Recovery Testing
    • Regression Testing
    • Ad-Hoc Testing
    • Software Dependencies in Testing
11. Test Cases
    • Test Case Format and Documentation Options
    • Deriving Test Cases
    • Requirement Based Test Cases
    • Field and Scenario Level Test Cases
    • Test Case Specifications
    • Test Case Summary Report
    • Test Plan Criteria
    • Defining a Good Test Case
    • Repeatable Test Case
12. Test Plans and Procedures
    • Test Plan Structure
    • Example Test Plans
    • Test Design Specifications
    • Test Procedure Specification
13. Data Testing
    • Data Testing Concepts and Execution
    • Data Driven Tests
    • Variables and Values
    • Validity
    • Data Types and their Importance
    • Test Databases
    • Generating Test Data
    • Building a Data Test Bed
14. Tracing Tests and Requirements
    • Understand Testing Traceability
    • Requirements to Test
    • Approaches to Tracing Requirements to Test
    • Traceability Matrix
15. Reviews and Walk-throughs
    • Reviews
    • Walk-throughs
    • Formal and Informal
    • Helpful Techniques for conducting Reviews and Walk-throughs
16. Test Execution
    • Building a Testing Map/Chart
    • Implementing the Test Plan
    • Top Down and Bottom Up Analysis
    • Test Data
    • Documenting Executed Tests and their results
    • Roles and Responsibilities
    • Configuration Control
    • Change Control
    • Metrics and Measurements
    • Test Coverage
17. Validation and Verification
    • Components of the Validation and Verification Process
    • Validation and Verification through the Lifecycle and Phases of Development
    • Validate and Verify Requirements
    • Manage the Validation and Verification Process
    • Validation and Verification Reporting
    • Validation and Verification Roles and Responsibilities
    • Anomaly Reporting and Resolution
    • Change Management Policy and Change Control Procedures
18. Test Documentation
    • Standard Documentation and Deliverables
    • ANSI/IEEE Standards (829-1998)
    • Check Lists
    • Sample Testing Documentation