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Course Outline
Project Management
- Distinctions between project management, line management, and maintenance/support
- Project definition and types of projects
- General management principles versus project-specific management
- Management styles
- Unique characteristics of IT projects
- Core project processes
- Iterative, incremental, waterfall, agile, and lean project methodologies
- Project phases
- Project roles and responsibilities
- Project documentation and associated artifacts
- Soft factors and personnel management
- Project standards: PRINCE2, PMBOK, PMI, IPMA, and others
Business Analysis and Requirements Engineering Fundamentals
- Defining business objectives
- Business analysis, business process management, and process improvement
- The boundary between business and system analysis
- System stakeholders, users, context, and boundaries
- The necessity of requirements
- Definition of requirements engineering
- The boundary between requirements engineering and architectural design
- Where requirements engineering is often overlooked
- Requirements engineering in iterative, lean, and agile development, as well as continuous integration (FDD, DDD, BDD, TDD)
- Core requirements engineering process, roles, and artifacts
- Standards and certifications: BABOK, ISO/IEEE 29148, IREB, BCS, IIBA
Architecture and Development Fundamentals
- Programming languages: structural and object-oriented paradigms
- Object-oriented development: historical context and future trends
- Modularity, portability, maintainability, and scalability of architectures
- Definition and types of software architectures
- Enterprise architecture and system architecture
- Programming styles
- Programming environments
- Common programming mistakes and prevention strategies
- Modeling architecture and components
- SOA, Web Services, and microservices
- Automatic build processes and continuous integration
- The extent of architecture design in projects
- Extreme programming, TDD, and refactoring
Quality Assurance and Testing Fundamentals
- Product quality: definitions, ISO 25010, FURPS, and other models
- Product quality, user experience, Kano Model, customer experience management, and integral quality
- User-centered design, personas, and strategies for personalized quality
- The concept of 'just-enough' quality
- Differences between Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Risk strategies in quality control
- Components of quality assurance: requirements, process control, configuration and change management, verification, validation, testing, static testing, and static analysis
- Risk-based quality assurance
- Risk-based testing
- Risk-driven development
- Boehm’s curve in quality assurance and testing
- The four testing schools: identifying the best fit for your needs
Process Types, Maturity and Process Improvement
- Evolution of IT processes: from Alan Turing and Big Blue to lean startups
- Processes and process-oriented organizations
- History of processes in crafts and industries
- Process modeling: UML, BPMN, and more
- Process management, optimization, re-engineering, and management systems
- Innovative process approaches: Deming, Juran, TPS, Kaizen
- Is quality free? Insights from Philip Crosby
- History and need for maturity improvement: CMMI, SPICE, and other maturity scales
- Special maturity types: TMM, TPI (for testing), Requirements Engineering Maturity (Gorschek)
- Process maturity versus product maturity: correlation and causality
- Process maturity versus business success: correlation and causality
- A forgotten lesson: Automated Defect Prevention and the next leap in productivity
- Various attempts: TQM, Six Sigma, agile retrospectives, process frameworks
Requirements Elicitation, Negotiation, Consolidation and Management
- Finding requirements: what, when, and by whom
- Stakeholder classification
- Overlooked stakeholders
- Defining system context and identifying requirements sources
- Elicitation methods and techniques
- Prototyping, personas, and requirements elicitation through testing (exploratory and otherwise)
- Marketing and requirements elicitation: MDRA (Market-Driven Requirements Engineering)
- Prioritizing requirements: MoSCoW, Karl Wiegers, and other techniques (including agile MMF)
- Refining requirements: agile 'specification by example'
- Requirements negotiation: types of conflicts and resolution methods
- Resolving internal incongruence between requirement types (e.g., security versus ease of use)
- Requirements traceability: why and how
- Changes in requirements status
- Requirements CCM, versioning, and baselines
- Product view versus project view on requirements
- Product management and requirements management in projects
Requirements Analysis, Modelling, Specification, Verification and Validation
- Analysis as the iterative thinking process between elicitation and specification
- The iterative nature of the requirements process, even in sequential projects
- Risks and benefits of describing requirements in natural language
- Benefits and costs of requirements modeling
- Rules for using natural language in requirements specification
- Defining and managing a requirements glossary
- UML, BPMN, and other formal/semi-formal modeling notations for requirements
- Using document and sentence templates for requirements description
- Verification of requirements: goals, levels, and methods
- Validation through prototyping, reviews, inspections, and testing
- Requirements validation and system validation
Test Design, Test Execution and Exploratory Testing
- Test design: optimizing time and resources after risk-based testing
- Test design 'from infinity to here': understanding that exhaustive testing is impossible
- Test cases and test scenarios
- Test design across various levels (from unit to system testing)
- Test design for static and dynamic testing
- Business-oriented and technique-oriented test design ('black-box' and 'white-box')
- Negative testing (attempting to break the system) and acceptance testing (supporting developers)
- Achieving test coverage through various measures
- Experience-based test design
- Designing test cases from requirements and system models
- Test design heuristics and exploratory testing
- Timing for test case design: traditional versus exploratory approaches
- Detail level in test case descriptions
- Psychological aspects of test execution
- Logging and reporting in test execution
- Designing tests for 'non-functional' testing
- Automatic test design and Model-Based Testing (MBT)
Test Organization, Management and Automation
- Test levels (or phases)
- Who performs testing and when: various solutions
- Test environments: cost, administration, access, and responsibility
- Simulators, emulators, and virtual test environments
- Testing in agile scrum
- Test team organization and roles
- Test processes
- Test automation: what can be automated?
- Approaches and tools for test execution automation
Requirements
None.
63 Hours
Testimonials (3)
hands on exercises, easier to retain information
ashley bolen - Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Course - Test Automation with Selenium
The exercises we covered in the course were quite useful and applicable to my activities at work. The doubts were resolved, and the examples shared are very helpful.
jocelin salas - BANXICO
Course - Test Automation with Selenium and Python
Machine Translated
The way technical topics were addressed in a practical manner, with real examples and an excellent attitude from the instructor.
Juan - ASECCSS
Course - Automatización de Pruebas con Selenium
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