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Effective Software Quality Assurance
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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.
Code Q10
Discipline Quality Assurance
Duration 3 days
Course Information
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Audience

  Software Process Architects   QA/Test Managers X   Development Managers
X   Business Analysts     QA User Testers     Software Developers
  Project Managers     QA Code Testers   X   User Education Specialists
               

at course completion

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

»   Understand the total context of quality »   Understand the concepts of software testing
»   Integrate quality practices in the SDLC   »   Define metrics to measure quality states
»   Define a quality assurance process   »   Establish a QA data infastructure including tools
»   Introduce best practices that encourage quality   »   Build and contribute to an effective QA team

prerequisites

»   Basic knowledge of software engineering and/or software testing

course materials

A comprehensive workbook with knowledge material, examples, case studies, lab exercises, and references.

course outline
Module 1: Software Quality
»   Basic concepts of software quality
»   Quality attributes
»   Case: Microsoft's facets of quality
»   Quality tradeoffs
Module 2: Quality and the Development Life Cycle
»   Inherent consequences of life cycle model on quality
»   Benefits of Milestones and V-model
»   Best practices that encourage quality
»   Role and objectives of QA team in the project
»   Achieving quality through cross-team collaboration
Module 3: Quality Assurance Process
»   Mindset to make quality pervasive in organization
»   Strategy to plan quality management activities
»   Tactics to act on results and events
»   QA team's mandates
Module 4: Best Practices
»   Requirements analysis
»   Design
»   Scheduling and risk management
»   Zero-defect development
»   Configuration management, builds and checkins
»   Testing and defectsgo/nogo meeting
Module 5: Software Testing
»   Faults and failures
»   Test objectives and test coverage
»   Test pipeline
»   Test strategy and test case design
Module 6: Quality Metrics
»   Objective of metrics
»   Metrics requirements
»   Defect convergence model
»   Setting up a metrics program
»   Interpreting and reporting
Module 7: QA Infrastructure
»   Quality data management
»   Test automation
»   CM & software builds
»   QA productivity and analysis tools
Module 8: QA Team Management
»   Team organization
»   Hiring and training
»   Planning and scheduling
»   Tracking and reporting
»   Team specialization

Certificate

Participants receive an industry recognized SoftO2 Education Certificate upon completion of the course.

pricing

Please refer to the pricing chart.

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