Course Overview
Organizations developing software have been challenged for decades with attaining effective quality assurance and testing practices. To overcome these challenges you cannot leave testing as an afterthought when planning, or as simply a couple weeks of test execution at the end of a project.

In this 1-day course quality expert Trevor Atkins shows that testers can affect significant positive change upstream in their software projects. Drawing on extensive real-world experience, Trevor shows how by thinking and working ‘outside the box’ we can achieve results by starting testing early. And, starting test activities early means you can catch small quality problems before they become big, more expensive, quality problems later on -- the best time to catch defects in the product is to do so before the first modules are even coded.

By understanding stakeholder objectives and needs and by applying a risk-driven philosophy to quality, we will explore how to identify the most effective and appropriate testing approach for a project. For example, each project will pass through a set of common phases one or more times, regardless of development methodology. This provides the opportunity to integrate value-add verification and validation activities within each phase such that early detection of issues is realized. Read More - Download the PDF version.

Who Should Attend
This seminar is ideally suited to software testing professionals and project managers wanting to learn about how to get more value out of testing throughout the project lifecycle.

Through a combination of presentations, group and class discussions, and hands-on exercises, this one-day course will explore the guiding concepts and principles and techniques specific to lowering the Total Cost of Quality and transforming your test group into high-value contributors to the project’s overall success.

Software developers, project managers, testers, product managers, business analysts, and customer representatives will all benefit from the instructor’s approach based on highly successful real-life experiences.

Benefits and Learning Objectives
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

• What is quality? And what is "good enough"?
• Lowering the Total Cost of Quality with risk-driven testing
• Using a risk-driven approach to capture what Quality means to the stakeholders
• Seeing the $$$ value of involving testing early in the project lifecycle
• Tailoring your testing approach by project phase
• Tailoring the V-Model for early testing and bending it around your development methodology
• Removing defects early and more cheaply through multi-stage verification and validation
• Starting testing before the GUI is ready
• Download the Full Course Outline (PDF)

Plus, receive valuable takeaways. The workshop manual helps you explore the guiding concepts and principles, tools and techniques specific to test projects along with valuable concept explanations and facilitation techniques used within the course.

Read the Instructor Bio: Trevor Atkins.

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November 18          Vancouver, BC         $595 CAD   Register

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