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Quality Assurance / Continuous Integration

  • Understanding Quality Assurance
  • Understanding Continuous Integration
  • The financial impact of software development, refactoring, and error correction
  • Identifying and comprehending the project scope
  • Organizational benefits

Domain-Driven Design

  • Software development grounded in business requirements and DDD assumptions
  • Addressing communication gaps between IT and business stakeholders
  • The Domain Model

Best Practices

  • The KISS principle and DRY rule
  • Adhering to coding standards
  • Developing reusable code via Object-Oriented Programming and design patterns
  • Identifying and reducing cyclomatic complexity

Software Metrics

  • Weighted Methods per Class
  • Response For a Class
  • Depth of Inheritance Tree
  • Coupling Between Objects
  • Lack of Cohesion of Methods
  • Number of Children
  • Cyclomatic Complexity
  • Class Metrics
  • Model Metrics
  • Usage Metrics

Software Testing

  • What, when, and how to test
  • White-box and black-box testing methods
  • The role of testing within agile methodologies
  • TDD: Potential cost implications for projects
  • Unit testing
  • Behavioral testing
  • Functional testing

Refactoring

  • Defining refactoring
  • Technical debt
  • Code smells
  • Refactoring patterns

Documentation

  • The role of documentation in agile methodologies
  • Key elements to document
  • Types of documentation
  • Documentation in agile: "Working software over comprehensive documentation"
  • XMI standards
  • Automated documentation generation

CI Tools and Environment

  • CI tools and environment setup

Agile and CI/QA Integration

  • Planning and incremental development
  • Embracing change
  • Short iterations
  • Interdisciplinary teams
  • Extreme Programming and Code Review
  • Valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Summary

  • Discussion
  • Q&A Session
  • Initiating the implementation process

Introduction to Testing

  • Functional Tests
  • Regression Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Unit Tests
  • Usability Testing
  • Non-Functional Tests
  • Performance Testing
  • Load Testing
  • Stress Testing
  • Soak Testing

To Test or Not to Test

  • Decision-makers for testing scope
  • The cost of testing irrelevant features
  • Calculating ROI (including risk analysis)
  • The role of the Test Manager

The Testing Process

  • Testing as a process and strategy
  • Identifying testing needs
  • Gathering requirements (use cases, user stories)
  • Scoping (selecting and prioritizing scenarios)
  • Designing tests
  • Preparing test data
  • Setting up the environment
  • Creating or recording tests
  • Executing the test
  • Analysis and reporting
  • Conclusions and improvements
  • Knowing when to stop

Product Owner and Tests

  • The customer representative and test prioritization
  • Prioritizing tests
  • Writing effective user stories for UAT
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Group exercise: Deriving customer requirements, writing stories, and creating tests
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