Requirements and Test Design Reviews for Effective Testing

This course covers Area #7 of the Certified Software Test Professional Body of Knowledge

This course uses an agile approach that incorporates best practices to review the most critical two artifacts in any software process: Requirements and Test Design. Although the course mainly targets software testing and QA professionals, developers, business analysist, product owners, agile coaches and customers can benefit from this course. The course does not teach participants how to design tests but rather focus on the most critical components of test design and how to review and analyze them. The course also addresses the most important characteristics of a testable requirements and to analyze requirements to make sure they are testable.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn:

• The characteristic of testable requirements
• The characteristic of a good test design
• How to analyze requirements for testability
• How to review test design for completeness
• How to effectively conduct a team or individual review
• The benefits of reviewing requirements and test design

Outline of Topic to be covered

• Reviews and Inspections
  • Purpose of inspections and reviews
  • Forms of inspections and reviews
  • Problems with traditional review methods
  • The Agile Review Process
• Requirement Reviews
  • Requirements Vs User Stories
  • Testable requirements
  • Quality Vs. Functional Requirements
  • What to look for in a requirement
  • Requirement review workshop
• Test Design Reviews
  • Critical components of test design
  • Positive scenario and negative scenarios
  • Formal test cases
  • Add hoc/ exploratory tests
  • Test design review workshop