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USER ACCEPTANCE TESTING

DURATION2 days

INTENDED FOR• Software Testers• Business Analysts• Project Professionals

PREREQUISITES There are no prerequisites for this course.

Gain the skills to plan, prepare, execute and evaluate an effective user acceptance test and build software that will delight your customers.

This course will give you a structure for turning requirements into testable conditions to produce appropriate test cases for user acceptance testing.

LEARNING OUTCOMESBy the end of this course you will be able to:• Understand the software development lifecycle and the testing lifecycle• Articulate how user acceptance testing fits into the testing lifecycle• Understand functional, technical, requirements-based, exploratory and end-to-end

testing• Define the test scope• Determine the priorities for testing activities• Apply good software testing practices• Create appropriate test cases for user acceptance testing• Understand different test design techniques• Design a process for tracing test cases to business requirements• Write good bug reports

CONTENTDay 1OverviewThe value of testing

• Why is testing necessary?• Inside a testers mind• General testing principles

Testing and the development lifecycle• The testing lifecycle

Test planning• Creating a test plan• Deciding your strategy

Risk based testing• Testing as a risk management strategy• Determining risk

Defining the scope of testing• Test objectives• Confirmation

METHOD USEDLecturing is kept to the minimum necessary, most of the learning is achieved through applying the practices and techniques in group exercises.

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Day 2Test design

• Test levels• Static testing• Lifecycle testing• Functional testing• Non-functional testing

Test case construction• Ideas• Degrees of precision

Traceability, bug reporting and metricschallenges of user acceptance testingExploratory testing

• Touring• Skillset• Chartering

Agile testing• Agile manifesto• What Agile testing involves