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Course Outline
Software Engineering (5 Days)
Day 1: Project Management
- Distinguishing between project management, line management, and maintenance/support
- Defining projects and their various forms
- General management rules versus project management specifics
- Exploring different management styles
- Unique characteristics of IT projects
- Core project lifecycle
- Comparing iterative, incremental, waterfall, agile, and lean processes
- Understanding project phases
- Key roles within a project
- Essential project documentation and artifacts
- The human element: soft skills and 'peopleware'
- Overview of major project standards: PRINCE 2, PMBOK, PMI, IPMA, and others
Day 2: Fundamentals of Business Analysis and Requirements Engineering
- Establishing business goals
- Business analysis, business process management, and process improvement
- Defining the boundary between business and system analysis
- Identifying system stakeholders, users, context, and boundaries
- The necessity of requirements
- Defining requirements engineering
- The distinction between requirements engineering and architectural design
- Where requirements engineering is often overlooked
- Implementing requirements engineering in iterative, lean, and agile development, as well as continuous integration (FDD, DDD, BDD, TDD)
- Core requirements engineering processes, roles, and artifacts
- Relevant standards and certifications: BABOK, ISO/IEEE 29148, IREB, BCS, IIBA
Day 3: Fundamentals of Architecture and Development
- Programming languages: structural and object-oriented paradigms
- Object-oriented development: assessing historical context versus future relevance
- Architectural qualities: modularity, portability, maintainability, and scalability
- Definition and types of software architectures
- Enterprise architecture versus system architecture
- Various programming styles
- Programming environments
- Common programming errors and strategies for avoidance and prevention
- Modelling architecture and components
- SOA, Web Services, and microservices
- Automated builds and continuous integration
- Estimating the extent of architecture design required for a project
- Extreme programming, TDD, and refactoring
Day 4: Fundamentals of Quality Assurance and Testing
- Understanding product quality: ISO 25010, FURPS, and other metrics
- Product quality, user experience, Kano Model, customer experience management, and holistic quality
- User-centered design, personas, and methods to personalize quality
- Concept of 'just-enough' quality
- Distinguishing Quality Assurance from Quality Control
- Risk strategies within quality control
- Quality assurance components: requirements, process control, configuration and change management, verification, validation, testing, static testing, and static analysis
- Risk-based quality assurance
- Risk-based testing
- Risk-driven development
- Boehm’s curve in the context of quality assurance and testing
- Examining the four testing schools to identify the best fit for your needs
Day 5: Process Types, Maturity, and Process Improvement
- Evolution of IT processes: from Alan Turing and Big Blue to the lean startup methodology
- Processes and process-oriented organizations
- Historical context of processes in crafts and industries
- Process modeling techniques: UML, BPMN, and others
- Process management, optimization, re-engineering, and process management systems
- Innovative process approaches: Deming, Juran, TPS, Kaizen
- Does quality really have no price? (Philip Crosby)
- The evolution and necessity of maturity improvement: CMMI, SPICE, and other scales
- Specialized maturity models: TMM, TPI (for testing), and Requirements Engineering Maturity (Gorschek)
- Correlation and causality between process maturity and product maturity
- Correlation and causality between process maturity and business success
- A neglected lesson: Automated Defect Prevention and the next productivity leap
- Key initiatives: TQM, Six Sigma, agile retrospectives, and process frameworks
Requirements Engineering (2 Days)
Day 1: Requirements Elicitation, Negotiation, Consolidation, and Management
- Determining what requirements are needed, when, and by whom
- Classifying stakeholders
- Identifying often-overlooked stakeholders
- Defining system context to identify requirement sources
- Elicitation methods and techniques
- Using prototyping, personas, and exploratory testing for elicitation
- Market-Driven Requirements Engineering (MDRA) and marketing integration
- Prioritization techniques: MoSCoW, Karl Wiegers’ methods, and agile MMF
- Refining requirements using agile 'specification by example'
- Managing requirements negotiation: types of conflicts and resolution methods
- Resolving internal conflicts between requirement types (e.g., security vs. usability)
- The importance and methodology of requirements traceability
- Managing changes in requirements status
- Requirements CCM, versioning, and baselines
- Viewing requirements from product and project perspectives
- Aligning product management with requirements management in projects
Day 2: Requirements Analysis, Modeling, Specification, Verification, and Validation
- Analysis as the critical thinking phase between elicitation and specification
- The iterative nature of the requirements process, even in sequential projects
- Writing requirements in natural language: analyzing risks and benefits
- Weighing the benefits and costs of requirements modeling
- Guidelines for using natural language in requirements specification
- Creating and maintaining a requirements glossary
- Utilizing UML, BPMN, and other formal/semi-formal modeling notations
- Employing document and sentence templates for clear requirement descriptions
- Requirements verification: objectives, levels, and methods
- Validation techniques: prototyping, reviews, inspections, and testing
- Differentiating between requirements validation and system validation
Testing (2 Days)
Day 1: Test Design, Execution, and Exploratory Testing
- Test design: optimizing time and resource allocation after risk-based testing
- Test design scope: understanding that exhaustive testing ('from infinity to here') is impossible
- Distinguishing between test cases and test scenarios
- Designing tests across various levels (unit to system)
- Designing tests for both static and dynamic testing
- Business-oriented versus technique-oriented test design ('black-box' vs. 'white-box')
- Purpose-driven testing: 'negative testing' to break the system and 'acceptance testing' to support developers
- Achieving test coverage: utilizing various coverage metrics
- Experience-based test design
- Deriving test cases from requirements and system models
- Test design heuristics and exploratory testing techniques
- Timing of test case design: traditional versus exploratory approaches
- Determining the appropriate level of detail for test case descriptions
- Psychological aspects of test execution
- Logging and reporting during test execution
- Designing tests for 'non-functional' requirements
- Automatic test design and Model-Based Testing (MBT)
Day 2: Test Organization, Management, and Automation
- Understanding test levels (or phases)
- Determining who performs testing and when: exploring various organizational solutions
- Test environment considerations: cost, administration, access, and responsibility
- Utilizing simulators, emulators, and virtual test environments
- Integrating testing within agile scrum frameworks
- Test team organization and defined roles
- Overview of the test process
- Test automation: identifying what can and cannot be automated
- Approaches and tools for automating test execution
63 Hours
Testimonials (3)
hands on exercises, easier to retain information
ashley bolen - Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Course - Test Automation with Selenium
Key topics can be discussed and agreed upon with the trainer in advance. Relaxed and pleasant atmosphere during the seminar days.
Lorenz - Continentale Lebensversicherung AG
Course - Advanced Selenium
I gained new knowledge and I'm pretty confident about it. Nothing unclear.
