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Course outline

Test Principles

• Definitions of quality, testing, software quality and software testing.
• Standard test terminology (ISTQB)
• Risk management and test strategy
• Pitfalls, assumptions, budgets, uncertainty, time constraints and risks

Test Management

• Types of test organizations
• Test planning and management
• Using project management techniques
• Configuration management and change management
• Problem management
• Testware, test products and reuse

Test phases

• Test phase models (who, what, when)
• Entry and exit criteria
• Mastertestplan
• The benefits of early error detection

Static and dynamic testing

• Static techniques (reviews, inspections and walkthroughs, code metrics)
• White box techniques (different types of coverages)
• Black box techniques (including equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables and state transition testing)
• Exploratory Testing and Error Guessing

Test tools

• Types of tools (CAST)
• Usability, advantages and disadvantages, costs and revenues
• Tools and reuse (regression testing)
• Data driven testing
• Implementation and maintenance