2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
302 Building a Software Testing Strategy - By Karen N. Johnson
If you've ever faced strategic planning issues for a software project, this class will help. For a strategy to be effective, you must solicit ideas and build an understanding with your project stakeholders. This class explains how to communicate your strategy with other project leads. Learn to brainstorm, build, implement and update test strategy, including details of scope, testing types, estimates, resources, plans, milestones, risk and acceptance criteria. You'll learn how to update your strategy throughout the project and to discuss and gain input and acceptance throughout your organization. For beginning and mid-career test managers.
Karen N. Johnson
Independent Software Test Consultant www.karennjohnson.com
Hosted on Tech Target http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com
My blog http://www.testingreflections.com/blog/3804
Co-founder of WREST workshop http://www.wrestworkshop.com/Home.html
Director http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/drupal/executives
Checklist to Consider
- Project stakeholders
- Product
- Context
- Project scope
- Risk analysis
- Types of testing
- Test environment
- Test data
- Resources
- Estimates
- Project plans & milestones
- Users
My thoughts on the class.
Karen was obviously very knowledgeable and had a lot of good experiences to share. However, I wish she had done a better job of translating those experiences into practial approaches that others could apply. There were some good take a ways though.