Building skills and making learning stick in today's complex and fast-changing world requires a strategic learning approach and plan. With our learning paths and learning journeys, we work with you to identify what skills your teams need, then provide tailored learning opportunities to build those capabilities. For a limited time, buy two private courses for up to 10 participants and get your third course free. This offer includes certification fees, and follow-on coaching and mentoring is also available. Have a larger group? Contact us for enterprise pricing.
Key Test Design Techniques
Proven Approaches to More Effective Testing
Learn how to create an effective set of test cases, develop your practical skills to become a better test engineer, and leave with a newfound confidence for developing test cases that find important bugs earlier.
Upcoming Classes
Don't see a date that fits your schedule? Contact us for scheduling options at 929.777.8102
Price: $695 USD
Course Duration: 2 Days
Description
- Make a good start getting additional information to supplement the requirements using the Test Matrix technique
- Find more defects faster using any of the five black-box (functional) techniques practiced during the class
- Design white-box (structural) test cases to cover all of the code while supporting fast debugging
- Implement exploratory testing to successfully supplement black and white box testing
- Choose the techniques that are most useful for your current project’s challenges
Key Test Design Techniques begins where many software testing courses end: when it is time to create specific test cases. Because testing everything is impossible, the major task in test design is to choose a subset of all possible tests of program paths and data combinations to find important defects quickly. This course shows you how to create an effective set of test cases and develops your practical skills to become a better test engineer—in just seven hours over two days.
Explore the science and the art of functional, structural, and exploratory testing right on your computer. The respected instructor shares key test design techniques, including equivalence class, boundary value, decision table, state transition, and all pairs testing. Leave this class with a newfound confidence for developing test cases that find important bugs earlier.
Practice all techniques with a simple example during the class. Students receive a full set of optional test case writing exercises (including a specification and example answers) to practice the techniques in greater detail after the class.
Who Should Attend
This course is appropriate for both novice and experienced software testers. Developers in an agile environment who are expected to write test cases will find it extremely useful. Test and development managers can also benefit. A background of basic development processes and test levels is helpful but not required.
Questions? 929.777.8102 [email protected]
Introduction
What is testing?
Current challenges in test design?
What are test cases?
The impossibility of testing everything
Making a good start
Supplement requirements with the Test Matrix (exercise)
Choose a test case documentation technique
Black Box Science
What is black-box testing?
Equivalence class partitioning (exercise)
Boundary value testing (exercise)
Decision table testing (exercise)
State-transition diagram testing (exercise)
All pairs test methods (exercise)
Cross functional testing
White Box Science
What is white-box testing?
Coverage measures
Control flow concepts
Applying control flow to code (exercise)
Black Box Art
Hunches and guessing
Exploratory testing
Creating creative invalids (exercise)
Wrap-Up
Choosing the appropriate technique
Class Schedule
Day 1: 12:30pm-4:00pm ET/9:30am-1:00pm PT
Day 2: 12:30pm-4:00pm ET/9:30am-1:00pm PT
Class Fee Includes
- Easy course access: Attend training right from your computer and easily connect your audio via computer or phone. Easy and quick access fits todayís working style and eliminates expensive travel and long days in the classroom.
- Live, expert instruction: Instructors are sought-after practitioners, highly-experienced in the industry who deliver a professional learning experience in real-time.
- Valuable course materials: Courses cover the same professional content as our classroom training, and students have direct access to valuable materials.
- Rich virtual learning environment: A variety of tools are built in to the learning platform to engage learners through dynamic delivery and to facilitate a multi-directional flow of information.
- Hands-on exercises: An essential component to any learning experience is applying what you have learned. Using the latest technology, your instructor can provide hands-on exercises, group activities, and breakout sessions.
- Real-time communication: Communicate real-time directly with the instructor. Ask questions, provide comments, and participate in the class discussions.
- Peer interaction: Networking with peers has always been a valuable part of any classroom training. Live Virtual training gives you the opportunity to interact with and learn from the other attendees during breakout sessions, course lecture, and Q&A.
- Convenient schedule: Course instruction is divided into modules no longer than four hours per day. This schedule makes it easy to get the training you need without taking days out of the office and setting aside projects.
- Small class size: Live Virtual courses are limited in small class size to ensure an opportunity for personal interaction.
Instructors
Additional instructors for this course are:
Bring this course to your team at your site. Contact us to learn more at 929.777.8102.
Don't see a date that fits your schedule? Contact us for scheduling options at 929.777.8102
Course Duration: 1 Day
Ways to Save
Buy 2, Get 1 Free
Building skills and making learning stick in today's complex and fast-changing world requires a strategic learning approach and plan. With our learning paths and learning journeys, we work with you to identify what skills your teams need, then provide tailored learning opportunities to build those capabilities. For a limited time, buy two private courses for up to 10 participants and get your third course free. This offer includes certification fees, and follow-on coaching and mentoring is also available. Have a larger group? Contact us for enterprise pricing.
Description
- Make a good start getting additional information to supplement the requirements using the Test Matrix technique
- Find more defects faster using any of the five black-box (functional) techniques practiced during the class
- Design white-box (structural) test cases to cover all of the code while supporting fast debugging
- Implement exploratory testing to successfully supplement black and white box testing
- Choose the techniques that are most useful for your current project’s challenges
Key Test Design Techniques begins where many software testing courses end: when it is time to create specific test cases. Because testing everything is impossible, the major task in test design is to choose a subset of all possible tests of program paths and data combinations to find important defects quickly. This course shows you how to create an effective set of test cases and develops your practical skills to become a better test engineer.
Explore the science and the art of functional, structural, and exploratory testing right on your computer. The respected instructor shares key test design techniques, including equivalence class, boundary value, decision table, state transition, and all pairs testing. Leave this class with a newfound confidence for developing test cases that find important bugs earlier.
Practice all techniques with a simple example during the class. Students receive a full set of optional test case writing exercises (including a specification and example answers) to practice the techniques in greater detail after the class.
Who Should Attend
This course is appropriate for both novice and experienced software testers. Developers in an agile environment who are expected to write test cases will find it extremely useful. Test and development managers can also benefit. A background of basic development processes and test levels is helpful but not required.
Questions? 929.777.8102 [email protected]
Introduction
What is testing?
Current challenges in test design?
What are test cases?
The impossibility of testing everything
Making a good start
Supplement requirements with the Test Matrix (exercise)
Choose a test case documentation technique
Black Box Science
What is black-box testing?
Equivalence class partitioning (exercise)
Boundary value testing (exercise)
Decision table testing (exercise)
State-transition diagram testing (exercise)
All pairs test methods (exercise)
Cross functional testing
White Box Science
What is white-box testing?
Coverage measures
Control flow concepts
Applying control flow to code (exercise)
Black Box Art
Hunches and guessing
Exploratory testing
Creating creative invalids (exercise)
Wrap-Up
Choosing the appropriate technique
Class Schedule
Sign-In/Registration 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Morning Session 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Times represent the typical daily schedule. Please confirm your schedule at registration.
Class Fee Includes
• Tuition
• Course notebook
• Letter of completion
Instructors
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