Scenario-Based Development and Testing for Agile and Non-Agile Projects

Key Concepts:

Whether your team uses an agile or a non-agile methodology, whether your team uses requirements or user stories, even if your agile team builds acceptance criteria for user stories, in all cases, your development and test teams need a simple process that helps them build and test applications that is most reliable and meets customer hidden expectations. This process works seamlessly in agile and non-agile projects. Scenarios are a universal concept that is essential for building and testing all types of systems. If we can build systems that handle scenarios that can happen in production, we greatly reduce the number of problems found during production and we deliver reliable and predictable systems.

In this four hour crash course, Dr. Hanna will show how scenarios can be used to break down requirements and user stories to small testable building blocks in a much better way than acceptance criteria used by some agile teams.

This course is critical for testers and developers working on agile or non-agile projects

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the characteristic of good requirements and user stories
• Perform gap analysis on requirements and user stories
• Break user stories and requirements to testable scenarios
• Make sure all negative scenarios are identified and analyzed
• Determine testing priorities for scenarios based on risk
• Perform Scenario-Based Test-Driven Development
• Combine formal and exploratory testing in one test process