Principles of Software Testing for Testers

Become a more informed software tester, as you gain an overview of some key practices that help make software testing successful within the general context of an iterative development lifecycle. Using the structure provided by the Rational Unified Process (RUP), the course introduces you to a number of testing practices that can be applied in various contexts.

Audience

While the course content focuses on the role of the software tester, it is also a useful introduction for roles that manage a test team directly, or work on other aspects of a software project that interact with a test team. For example, software developers who want to understand the goals and tactics of functional testing, and software managers who need to better understand the goals and methods of the testers who will work on their projects may also benefit from this course.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Required Experience To get the most benefit from this course, students must have: The responsibility for performing software testing and either six months on-the-job testing experience as a tester or significant experience in some other software development role.

Skills Gained

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

• Understand and describe the basic concepts of functional (black box) software testing.
• Identify a number of test styles and techniques and assess their usefulness in your context.
• Understand the basic application of techniques used to identify useful ideas for tests.
• Help determine the mission and communicate the status of your testing with the rest of your project team.
• Characterize a good bug report, peer-review the reports of your colleagues, and improve your own report writing.
• Understand where key testing concepts apply within the context of the Rational Unified Process.

Course Outline

During the course, you will be introduced to a range of practices including:

• Defining the mission of the test team
• Examining various testing types and techniques
• Analyzing and reporting defects effectively
• Assessing and reporting the extent of testing
• Software Engineering Practices
• Terminology of RUP, the testing discipline in RUP, and the testing workflow structure within an iteration
• The mission of the test team
• Identifying the goal of test documentation
• Test ideas, test idea catalogs, and test matrices
• Test techniques and styles of functional testing
• Effective problem investigation and change request (defect) writing
• Status reporting on the extent of testing
• Verifying your test approach, validating the stability of a build, and ongoing maintenance and improvements to test assets

Principles of Software Testing for Testers / RT101GB (RT101GBGB)