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Testing does not easily
fit into the “do it and check it off” techniques of project management. If
anything changes, testers must retest. If testers don't know exactly what
changed, then they will want to retest everything. So what can we do?
Uncheck all those “checks” and redo the schedule?
Traditional project
management relies on formal documentation methods, which are both well
planned and highly detailed. Today's short development cycles leave little
time for planning. In fact, most of the details are dealt with as they
appear. In addition, the challenges that arise in distance management are
difficult to predict and require an adaptive, flexible approach to keep them
on track.
This tutorial shows you
how to use project management methods, tools and techniques to plan and
manage your test effort; and to be successful in the face of these
challenges. Each topic is supported by one or more techniques, and numerous
case studies are presented to illustrate events and methods.
Students Learn
- How and where test projects fit into the overall
development project
- What benefits a project management approach adds
to the test effort, for local and remote test efforts
- How traditional project management techniques can
be applied to the test effort and to distance management
- People planning, motivation, and control
techniques for today's team driven environments
- What metrics to use on your test dashboard to
control test progress and predict difficulties; keeping project
management well informed every step of the way
Outline
- Foundations and Techniques Test Project Planning
- Effort estimation: How big is it?
- Traditional (Planned) versus Agile efforts
- Local versus remote (distance, off-shore)
efforts
- Requirements
- Activity diagrams, Use cases
- Risk Analysis and Reviews
- Task Identification and Enumeration
- People
- Identification of roles and responsibilities;
assessing individuals' performance
- How teaming changes things in Project
Management
- How Distance Changes Things
- Schedule, reporting and motivation tools
- Scheduling, tracking and reporting techniques
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