User Stories and Test Design Reviews for Agile Projects

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

As we always say, the quality of your release is only as good as your test design. Also, the quality of your test design is only as good as your user stories or requirements. This course uses an agile approach that incorporates best practices to review the two critical artifacts in agile projects: User Stories 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 user story and how to analyze user stories to make sure they are testable.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn:

• The characteristic of testable user stories or requirements
• How to ask the right questions during a user story or requirement review
• How to analyze user stories for testability
• The characteristic of a good test design
• How to review test design for completeness
• How to effectively conduct a team or individual review

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 and User Story Reviews
  • Requirements Vs User Stories
  • Testable User Stories or requirements
  • Quality Vs. Functional Requirements
  • What to look for in a user story
  • Requirement/User Story 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