Mastering User Acceptance Testing (Elective)

This course counts as two days Elective area of the Certified Test Manager (CTM) certification, Certified Software Test Professional certification and the CSTAS certification.

For cost and cities where this course might be offered, check our Public Training Schedule. To bring this course to your test team at your location, contact our Education and Professionals Services Group.

Participants will learn:

All too often the products delivered by IT fail to meet the customers expectations, especially with regard to the quality of the product. An effective User Acceptance Testing process addresses this issue in two very powerful ways; 1) by ensuring that the customer is fully engaged in the Requirements process and 2) by having the customer confirm the functionality and performance of the product prior to delivery. This seminar looks at the business issues which drive the need for a fully functional User Acceptance Testing process and looks at the components of such a process. It is designed to help improve existing User Acceptance Testing programs as well as provide a roadmap for those wanting to establish the function.

Participants will learn:

This seminar will focus on the procedures for creating an effective User Acceptance Testing process. As a participant you will be able to:

• Develop an understanding of the basic concepts of User Acceptance Testing and how they apply to the software life cycle
• Identify key activities which make up User Acceptance Testing
• Prepare a Business Event Model and related User Acceptance Tests
• Integrate User Acceptance Testing into the overall project plan
• Demonstrate a return on investment on User Acceptance Testing deployment
• Demonstrate improved quality of deployed software with User Acceptance Testing

Outline

This seminar will demonstrate the process for establishing an effective User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Process.

• Understanding User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Software Life Cycle Fundamentals
  • Working with processes
    • Process Definitions
    • Process Management
  • Role of Testing in the Life Cycle
    • Quality Assurance
    • Quality Control
  • What is User Acceptance Testing
• Business Process
  • Understand the process
  • Identify the participants
  • Identify triggers and controls
  • Improve the process
• Business Event Model
  • Interacting with the process
  • Defining boundaries
  • Driving out ambiguity
• Project Plan
  • Developing the plan
    • Building organization commitment
    • Managing the resources
    • Ensuring participation
  • Working with time, cost and quality issues
  • Reporting
  • Using project management tools
• Test case development
  • Getting started in Requirements
  • Test approaches
    • On-Off
    • Parallel
    • Time Series
    • Regression
    • Break/fix
    • Stress
    • Test first
  • Monitoring results
  • Benchmarks for completion
• Managing UAT
  • Environment and staff
    • Establishing the test environment
    • Using a test environment
    • Developing testing resources
    • Leveraging skills
  • Time and Budget
    • Estimating the testing effort
    • Tracking the testing effort
    • Working with the project plan
  • Training and tools
    • Training for testing
    • Testing as training
    • Using test tools
• Why projects fail
• Building the Business case of effective User Acceptance Testing
  • Measurement
  • Cost of Quality