Wednesday 10.00 - 16.30
Room: TBA

This tutorial takes place at Øredev on Wednesday and requires special registration. Please register normally for the Øredev conference. In addition, please send an e-mail to test-ws@oredev.org.

Dealing with Software Project Turbulence
Turbulent development projects experience almost daily requirements changes, user interface modifications, and the continual integration of new functions, features, and technologies. Keep your testing efforts on track while reacting to changing priorities, technologies, and user needs. This interactive workshop offers a unique set of tools to help you cope with—and perhaps even flourish in—what may seem to be a totally chaotic environment. Practice dynamic test planning, test idea development and test triage.

Getting Ready for Almost Anything They Can Throw at You
Learn to identify, organize, and prioritize your testing “ideas”. Adapt the testing focus as priorities change. Decide on purpose—what not to test not just because the clock ran out!

Real Techniques Proven in Real Projects
Just-In-Time Testing (JIT) approaches are successfully applied to many types of software projects—commercial off-the-shelf applications, agile and iterative development environments, mission-critical business systems, and just about any Web application. Real examples demonstrate how JIT testing either replaces or complements more traditional approaches. Examples are drawn from insurance, banking, telecommunications, medical, and other industries. The course is packed with interactive exercises in which students work together in small groups to apply JIT testing concepts.

Who Should Attend
This course is appropriate for anyone who works in fast-paced development environments, including test engineers, test managers, developers, QA engineers, and all software managers.

1-Day Course Outline

Introduction

Testing as soon as possible
Testing as late as possible
Basis for Just-In-Time testing
Be prepared-what you need
Exercise: Nature of Testing

Test Ideas
Test ideas-what to test
Usage scenarios and data
Requirements and design documents
Failure modes
Capabilities and domains
Quality factors
Creative techniques
Exercise: Creative test idea generation

Focus Planning and Prioritization
What not to test
Consequences and benefits of skipping
Consequences of implementing
Refactoring tests
Testing triage
Adapting to project context for triage
Exercise: Testing triage practice session

Tags: Mastery Rebel Test Tools

Expectations

Powerful Tools for Fast-Changing Projects and Priorities