Test Techniques for Test Analysts

The workshop is principally aimed at practicing testers, actively involved in software testing, who want to improve the quality and effectiveness of the tests they (or their testers) design, and who want to ensure that they are fully aware of current best industry practices.

This includes people in roles such as system testers, test analysts, test engineers, test consultants, test managers, user acceptance testers and software developers.

Test techniques are fundamental to the test practitioner, and by the end of the day, delegates will:

• Be familiar with the wide range of test cae design techniques available to them;
• Be aware of the pros and cons of the most popular test case design techniques;
• Have practical hands-on experience of applying both black box and white box test case design techniques;
• Understand the factors that determine which techniques to choose for a given situation.

Workshop Materials

Each delegate will be provide with their own workbook containing copies of all slides and supporting text, as well as solutions to all exercises. CDs containing soft copies of the delegate workbook, relevant white papers, articles and a copy of the BCS Software Component Testing Standard will also be provided for future reference.

There are no formal entry requirements for this workshop, although prior experience of working on IT projects is certainly beneficial,
either as testers, or in a development or management role.

The workshop is intended as an introduction to best practices for those new to formal test design and as a refresher for more
experienced test professionals to the current state of industry thinking.

Syllabus - Key points:

The course covers the following aspects of practical test management:

• Test process
• Formal and Informal test design
• Equivalence Partitioning
• Boundary Value Analysis
• Classification Tree Method
• Pairwise testing
• Decision Table testing
• Process Cycle testing
• State Transition testing
• Statement testing/Decision testing & Path testing
• Choosing test techniques