Testing knowledge base: Site Map

Site Map

Posted On Sunday, 24 February 2008 at at 00:45 by Mykhailo Poliarush

Principles of software testing:

Levels of Testing
Testing client/server applications
Testing Internet and web applications
Testing object-oriented applications
Testing embedded systems
The testing life cycle
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Test design:

Code-based test case design techniques
Requirement-based test case design techniques
Test design specification
White box techniques
Black box techniques
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Test executions and defect management:

Test scripting
Reporting
Defect tracking
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Requirements definitions:

Writing testable requirements
Exploring requirements
Refining requirements
Defining requirements
Requirement verification
Requirement tractability
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Test automation:

Tool evaluation and selection
Architectures
Automation standards and guidelines
Planning the test automation process
Automation team roles
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Static testing:

Types of static testing
The process of static testing
Defect data analysis
Improving the process
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Test Process Management:

Effort estimation
Quality policies, processes, and standards
Test mission, strategies, and tactics
Defining quality goals
Process definition
Process control
Process documentation
Relationship with service management infrastructure processes (incident management, problem management, configuration management, change management, release management, etc.)
Best practices, including use of both static and dynamic testing
Test processes for different development models (XP, RAD, JAD, waterfall, etc.)
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Test project management:

Test planning
Effort estimation
Task identification
Scheduling
Tracking
Reporting
Resource allocation (people, hardware, software, and facilities)
Identification of roles and responsibilities
Project controls
Financial analysis and ROI
Metric tracking and presentation
Presentation skills
Using GANTT/PERT charts and other project management techniques
Using automated project management tools
Directing, supervising, and assessing individuals' performance
Leadership
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Test process measurement and improvement:

Test coverage analysis
Incident tracking and management
Defining and capturing test measurements
Basic “best practices” development metrics
Alternative measurement goal-setting with the Basili goal/question/metric paradigm
Test maturity models
Establishing process goals
Performing assessments and using surveys
Benchmarking
Overview of process improvement models such as CMM/CMMI, Six Sigma, TQM, ISO, etc.
Overview of the applicable IEEE documentation standard
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Test organization management:

Resource management.
Staffing, hiring, contracting, and reviewing performance.
Equipment, facilities, hardware, and software resource management
Politics
Training and career development
Ethics
Team building and retention
Compensation
Budgeting
Presentation skills including data preparation
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Risk management:

Risk analysis methodologies
Risk identification, classification, and prioritization
Calculating costs and probability
Risk reporting
Monitoring and controlling risks
Contingency planning and mitigation
Risk-based test planning and management: sizing and resource planning
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Test automation strategies and architectures:

Defining a test automation strategy and plan
Test tool evaluation and selection
Build it vs. Buy it: automation strategies approaches
Developing skills and relevant test automation roles
Long term maintenance considerations
Selecting which tests to automate and converting from manual to automated
Calculating ROI of automation
Building a performance test team
Process automation and metric analysis
Test environments - test data, architecture, security, networks, etc.
Categories of automated tools that can be used to aid testing
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Software quality assurance:

Quality Assurance Vs Quality Control
Defining processes
Implementing Quality Assurance
Developing effective standards
Inspections and review of artifacts other than code
Development and Test lifecycles and methodologies
QA concepts, methods and approaches
Prominent quality assurance model such as:
- CMM/CMMI
- Six Sigma
- IEEE standards
- TQM
- ISO
ROI justification for Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance according to W. Edwards Deming
Quality Assurance for modern development methodologies: RAD, Agile and eXtreme
Independent Verification and Validation
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Books:

"Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect" By Rex Black. Published Jul 29, 2003 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
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