JANUARY 2012
Exploratory Testing: A Simultaneous Process to Test
Date: January 27, 2012
Description: At the onset of the testing project, exploratory testing has been performed unknowingly in some degree. Exploratory Testing (ET) aims to work well with scripted testing and can be a powerful and effective way to test and manage quality under circumstances where resources and time are limited. This course will enable every tester to be acquainted with the testing knowledge and skills in performing exploratory testing.
Registration Deadline: January 11, 2012
Context Driven Testing: An Adaptive Approach
Date: January 31, 2012
Description: This course will introduce testers to an adaptive context-driven approach to software testing. The context-driven goal is to match our selection of practices to circumstances at hand in a way that achieves excellent testing.
It will encourage participants to explore their own talents and skills, and apply the values that they will learn from this course in their testing projects. Participants will engage in activities where they can share the lessons and experiences they have learned in software testing.
Registration Deadline:January 18, 2012
FEBRUARY 2012
Building Testable Requirements
Date: February 17, 2012
Description: 'Building Testable Requirements' focuses on problem avoidance - creating requirements accurately the first time or improving them before the coding starts. Experiences showed that focusing and investing in the formulation of requirements save project resources such as time, money, and manpower.
This course presents a process for eliciting the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly, and unambiguously. The course concentrates on the tasks of capturing and writing requirements. It will teach the participants how to discover and involve the appropriate stakeholders, to use appropriate techniques to know what the users really need, to write testable requirements, to structure and organize it, and finally, to review it.
Registration Deadline: January 27, 2012
A Practical Software Testing Bootcamp
Date: February 22 to 24, 2012
Description: This training places special emphasis on the integration of testing into all phases of the SDLC. The lessons provided here focus on the key aspects of software testing: test planning, design, documentation, execution, and defect management.
Registration Deadline: February 03, 2012Test Management Workshop
Date: February 28 to 29, 2012
Description: 'Test Management Workshop' offers the fundamental management skills for people who lead or manage development and maintenance test efforts. It provides essential tools, important techniques, critical processes, and significant considerations in managing the testing process.
This is a two-day training course where the participants learn about the development and use of a test plan and a test system, make effective use of bug and test tracking tools/databases. Participants will gain people skills needed to define a test team, hire appropriate people, and keeping their team motivated. They will also learn how to manage the relationship of people with their peers and their managers specifically on presenting test findings.
Registration Deadline: February 10, 2012
MARCH 2012
Agile Testing
Date: March 16, 2012
Description: Agile testing adheres to the principles of the Agile Manifesto of software testing. Testing at the onset of the project and continually throughout the project lifecycle is the foundation on which Agile testing is built. It emphasizes testing from the perspective of customers who will utilize the system. The goal is to make the whole project team work cooperatively towards quality.
This short course is designed to familiarize Software Quality Engineers to the fundamentals of Agile testing in Agile environment. It aims to introduce conceptually what made up an Agile community from the Agile Manifesto and Principles governing the method to testing roles, approaches, and practices that every testers should observe. The course will also introduce participants to different strategies used in Agile testing.
Registration Deadline: February 24, 2012
QAI CSTE Preparatory Training
Date: March 21 to 23, 2012
Description: The Certified Software Tester (CSTE) program was developed by leading software testing professionals as a means of recognizing software testers who demonstrate a predefined level of testing competency and to provide value to the profession, the individual, the employer, and coworkers. The CSTE program is directed by an independent Certification Board and administered by the Quality Assurance Institute (QAI).
The CSTE certification entails an aggressive educational program that tests the level of competence in the principles and practices of testing and control in the Information Technology (IT) profession. These principles and practices are defined by the Certification Board as the Common Body of Knowledge (CBOK). The Certification Board periodically updates the CBOK to reflect changing software testing and control, as well as changes in computer technology.
Registration Deadline: February 24, 2012
Planning for Optimized Software Testing
Date: March 29 to 30, 2012
Description: This two-day course aims to discuss the use of measurement and metric tools as a defensible method to improve the test effort. It intends to describe and explain a different software testing method called Most Important Tests (MITs) using an optimized test document called Test Inventory. In addition, this course will discuss how to perform basic Risk Analysis, Basis Path Analysis, and Data Flow Analysis in a simple application. These are important techniques often used by the testing team in estimation, test case design, and measurement processes. Participants in this course will engage in activities wherein they can apply these methods and techniques and come up with a test effort estimation that is reliable, defendable and negotiable.
Registration Deadline: March 09, 2012
