| This workshop course lets junior and intermediate SQA and Test professionals acquire a thorough skill set for their respective roles. Students learn both the theorical concepts and the innovative practices from proven environments such as Microsoft. Course coverage includes testing, quality management practices, measurement, and tools infrastructure. |
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Quality Assurance |
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Course Information
Audience | At Course Completion | Prerequisites | Course Materials | Course Outline | TAKE THIS TRAINING |
Audience
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Software Process Architects |
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QA/Test Managers |
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Development Managers |
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Business Analysts |
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QA User Testers |
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Software Developers |
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Project Managers |
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QA Code Testers |
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User Education Specialists |
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at course completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
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Understand the total context of quality |
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Understand the concepts of software testing |
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Integrate quality practices in the SDLC |
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Define metrics to measure quality states |
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Define a quality assurance process |
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Establish a QA data infastructure including tools |
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Introduce best practices that encourage quality |
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Build and contribute to an effective QA team |
prerequisites
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Basic knowledge of software engineering and/or software testing |
course materials
A comprehensive workbook with knowledge material, examples, case studies, lab exercises, and references.
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 Module 1: Software Quality
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Basic concepts of software quality |
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Quality attributes |
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Case: Microsoft's facets of quality |
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Quality tradeoffs |
Module 2: Quality and the Development Life Cycle
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Inherent consequences of life cycle model on quality |
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Benefits of Milestones and V-model |
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Best practices that encourage quality |
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Role and objectives of QA team in the project |
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Achieving quality through cross-team collaboration |
Module 3: Quality Assurance Process
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Mindset to make quality pervasive in organization |
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Strategy to plan quality management activities |
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Tactics to act on results and events |
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QA team's mandates |
Module 4: Best Practices
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Requirements analysis |
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Design |
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Scheduling and risk management |
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Zero-defect development |
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Configuration management, builds and checkins |
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Testing and defectsgo/nogo meeting |
Module 5: Software Testing
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Faults and failures |
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Test objectives and test coverage |
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Test pipeline |
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Test strategy and test case design |
Module 6: Quality Metrics
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Objective of metrics |
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Metrics requirements |
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Defect convergence model |
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Setting up a metrics program |
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Interpreting and reporting |
Module 7: QA Infrastructure
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Quality data management |
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Test automation |
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CM & software builds |
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QA productivity and analysis tools |
Module 8: QA Team Management
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Team organization |
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Hiring and training |
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Planning and scheduling |
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Tracking and reporting |
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Team specialization |
certificate
Students receive a SoftO2 Education Certificate upon completion of the course.
take this training
Contact SoftO2 Education or send the following form to register or request information.
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