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Overview
| Course code | RT101 | Skill level | Basic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 2.0 days | Delivery type | Classroom |
| Course type | Public or Private on-site | ||
| Public price | USD $1,400.00 plus tax |
Gain an overview of some key practices that help make software testing successful within the general context of an iterative development life cycle. Hands-on exercises reinforce the practices with concrete examples.
Using the structure provided by the Rational Unified Process (RUP), explore a number of testing practices that can be applied in various contexts including:
- Defining the mission of the test team
- Examining various testing types and techniques
- Analyzing and reporting defects effectively
- Assessing and reporting the extent of testing
This course is Version 2002.05.20
IACET Continuing Education Units: 1.6
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Training Paths that reference this course are:
- Training Path for Quality Management: Rational Quality Manager - Tester
- Training Path for Quality Management: Rational Performance Tester
- Training Path for Quality Management: Rational Quality Manager - Test Manager
- Training Path for Quality Management: Rational Functional Tester
- Developer: Enterprise Architect Ancillary
- Analyst: System Analyst Ancillary
Audience
Software developers, who want to understand the goals and tactics of functional testing, and software managers, who need to better understand the goals and methods of the testers who work on their projects.
Prerequisites
You should have experience performing software testing with either six months on the job experience or significant experience in some other software development role.
Skills taught
- Understand and describe the basic concepts of functional (black box) software testing
- Identify a number of test styles and techniques and assess their usefulness in your context
- Understand the basic application of techniques used to identify useful ideas for tests
- Help determine the mission and communicate the status of your testing with the rest of your project team
- Characterize a good bug report, peer-review the reports of your colleagues, and improve your own report writing
- Understand where key testing concepts apply within the context of the RUP
Course outline
- Software engineering practices
- Terminology of RUP, the testing discipline in RUP, and the testing workflow structure within an iteration
- The mission of the test team
- Identifying the goal of test documentation
- Test ideas, test idea catalogs, and test matrices
- Test techniques and styles of functional testing
- Effective problem investigation and change request (defect) writing
- Status reporting on the extent of testing
- Verifying your test approach, validating the stability of a build, and ongoing maintenance and improvements to test assets
Remarks
Related Courses
For students interested in continued learning in this field, we suggest taking:
Web-based training
PRJ110: Principles of Rational Unified Process
TST110: Principles of Test Automation for GUI Testing
SCM110: Principles of Defect and Change Tracking with Rational ClearQuest
DEV205: Essentials of Rational PurifyPlus
Instructor-led training
Rational Unified Process Fundamentals
Rational TeamTest Fundamentals for Functional Testing
Rational TeamTest Fundamentals for Performance Testing
TST278: Essentials of Functional Testing with Rational TeamTest for Java and Web-Based Applications Rational Team Test Expert-Level Automation