Training and Development One and Two Day Professional Development

Structured Testing Practices
March 17 & 18, 2010

Program Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Continental breakfast: 8:00 a.m. Lunch included both days
Dress Code: Business or Business Casual (No blue jeans, shorts, etc.)

Objective: To develop the knowledge and skills necessary to design and execute testing plans and to learn techniques used to deliver quality business systems results. This program is recognized and approved by the Project Management Institute, and completion of it will earn you 14 PDU credits.

Target Audience: Any individual who is responsible for testing planning or execution.

Instructor: Gary Schmitz
Gary has extensive experience as a Project Manager and programmer with several financial institutions. He has a thorough understanding of both mainframe and client-server environments. Gary has consulted and taught for a wide-range of organizations throughout the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Canada. His long list of satisfied clients includes the United States Army, and several fortune 500 companies; such as, American Express, Chase Manhattan, and Citicorp.

Focus:
Testing Processes & Terminology
Test Data & Test Scripts
Testing Continuum
Client/Server Consideration
Web Testing Consideration
Business User Involvement

Program Details:

Testing and Purpose
- What is a Test?
- Cost of Errors
- Quality and Its Associated Costs

What is “Structured Testing?”
- Regression Testing
- Levels of Testing
- Test Beds, Test Scripts, Test Data
- Entry and Exit Criteria
- Error, Fault or Failure?

Product and Process
- Managing the Testing Process
- The Test Plan
- Dynamic Test Creation

Static Testing Techniques
- Testing the Test Plans
- The Structured Walkthrough
- Roles and Rules of Testing

Testing the Analysis/Design
- Deliverables from Analysis
- Entry and Exit Criteria
- Deliverables from Design
- Testing the Maintainability of the Program

The Data
- General Data Types
- Selecting Appropriate Data
- Decision Tables and Trees
- Traceability Matrix

Unit Testing
- Definition and Goals
- Path Testing

System Test
- Definition and Goals
- Categories of Tests
- Creation of Test Data
- System Test Plan Outline

User Acceptance Test
- Definition and Goals
- Roles and Requirements
- Sign-off

Implementation of Testing and Systems
- Tracking Actual vs Test Environment
- Keeping the Record
- Tracking Quality

Location of Program: The Georgian Club (Call OMICRON for details (404-255-0096)

Program Fees: (per individual)
Members: This program uses two Days or a fee of $1090
Non-members fee: $1300
Failure to cancel within 14 days (prior to this Program) will result in
relinquishing full credits or full fee. Refund will be provided, if your reserved seat can be filled. We will gladly accept substitutions for the original attendee without penalty.

Registration: Click on registration button on home page.

(Multiple discounts and on site presentations are available)