How to Plan and Prepare for User Acceptance Testing

Workshop: How to Plan, Prepare, and Execute User Acceptance Testing

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Overview

An appropriate testing strategy is based on an assessment of business risks, the underlying technology, organizational structure, the development process, and the people who are impacted by the solution. Test plans detail how to implement your selected testing strategy. Creating well-based and thorough test plans keep the testing process moving and make it more receptive to the inevitable changes that will happen late in the project.

Outline

  • Testing Strategy Defined
  • Dimensions of Risk
  • Testing Risks Quantified
  • Corporate Culture as a Business Risk [1]
  • Technology Risks Quantified
  • Project Risk Evaluation
  • Business/Environmental Risks
  • Selecting Test Types
  • Static Coverage Levels
  • Dynamic Coverage Levels
  • Risk-Reducing Documents
  • Automated Tools Types
  • Test Strategy Development
  • Of People and Methods
  • Test Planning Activities
  • Criteria for a Testing Objective
  • Administrative Components of a Test Plan
  • Executive Components of a Test Plan
  • Phase Transition Guard Conditions
  • Defining Phase Transition Guard Conditions
  • Scheduling Components of a Test Plan
  • Planning Required Resources
  • Identifying Roles and Resources
  • Estimating Testing Effort
  • Test Plan Validation
  • Organizing a Test Plan


Objectives
  • Select the appropriate type of coverage to reduce business risks
  • Use requirements management principles to focus the test effort
  • Assess technology impact, i.e., web-based, client/server, mainframe
  • Define the strategic and scheduling components of a test plan
  • Define the strategic and scheduling components of a test plan
  • Assemble the 17 key elements of effective test plans

 

Our vision of a virtual workshop is web-based training that is highly interactive. We absolutely avoid the death by page-turning and the passive learning approach that is highly prevalent in most web-based training.

3.5 hours

Target Audience

Business Systems Analysts
End-users responsible for acceptance testing
Project managers
Quality Analysts
Quality Engineers
Test Engineers
Test Managers
Anyone responsible for planning, preparing, and/or managing the business system software testing process.