Writing Testable Requirements and Requirement-Based Testing

(CSTP #5) or (CTM Elective) or (CSTAS Elective)

This course counts as 2 days area 5 of the Test Professional Body of Knowledge requirements. This course also counts as 2 days Elective area for the Certified Test Manager (CTM) and the CSTAS certification.

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Concepts

This two-day course is essential for test and quality professionals, requirement engineers, business and system analysts and everyone who is involved in writing, validating and testing requirements. It covers details on how to document different types of requirements in a form that is testable. The course adopts a model-driven requirement process. It is based on the instructor's philosophy of using models to assure completeness, correctness, testability, and precession of requirements. The course will also discuss the elements of requirement management process.

Participants will learn:

• Requirements without models is simply waste of time and resources
• Learn how models can tremendously improve the testability of requirements
• Learn how to identify test scenarios for model-based requirements
• Learn the elements of a requirement management process and learn how to build your own process

Outline

• Requirement Validation
  • Types of requirements
    • Requirement traceabilit
    • Functional Vs quality requirements
    • Documenting quality requirements
    • Assessing the quality of software requirements
    • Forms of requirements
• The Common Sense Model for Software Development and Testing
• The Requirement Management Process
• Models for Exploring and Refining Requirements
  • Data models
  • Process models
  • Use Cases
  • State Models
  • User Interface Models