Effective Software Quality Assurance & Testing

Workshop

Business Beam (Pvt.) Ltd, Islamabad

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Program Information:


Start Date: Nov 28, 2009
Last Date of Registration: Nov 20, 2009
Normal Track Duration: N/A
Fast Track Duration: 2 Days
Venue: Hotel Best Western, Islamabad
Fast Track Timing:
Saturday
09:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Sunday
09:30 AM - 05:30 PM
15,000 PKR
Program Fee:
Net Amount: 13,500 PKR COURSEGURU Discount: 1,500 PKR  
Actual Fee
Trainer Profile

Mansoor is Managing Advisor at Business Beam (Pvt.) Limited. He currently leads the Islamabad center and also conducts or supervises various consultancy assignments. He has more than four (4) years of experience in various areas of Information Technology. Mansoor has successfully managed several consultancy projects for leading organizations on various frameworks including CMMI, and ISO 9001. As internal auditor, he has conducted various audits and also participated in CMMI SCAMPI-C appraisals at various organizations. Most of his projects received excellent comments from clients and users. As a corporate trainer in the field of software engineering, Mansoor has delivered several training courses and workshops at various organizations on topics such as Quality Assurance, Quality Audits, Software Efforts and Size Estimations, Configuration Management, Software Inspections and Project Management. He has also delivered seminars and guest speaker sessions at universities such as Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi. Mansoor graduated top of his class of M.S. in Software Engineering from Bahria University, Karachi where he wrote his research thesis on Software Process Improvement Initiatives in Pakistan. He has also completed B.S. in Software Engineering from the same university. He was rated as a top programmer at his university, having won more than 4 all-Pakistan programming championships held at FAST and Karachi University. Mansoor received his ITIL v3 Foundation Certificate in 2008 and is well versed in the IT Service Management framework. He is also an IRCA certified ISO 9001 QMS Lead Auditor. Mansoor has also been a software developer and a project manager, working as an entrepreneur since 2002. He has successfully completed and delivered projects on a variety of platforms including web, desktop and mobile applications. Mansoor is a member of Ponder Alliance, Karachi SPIN as well the Art of Living Foundation.

Program Detail:


Introduction


The objective of this two-day workshop is to provide the skills and insights you need to define, design and implement a practical software quality assurance function in your organization using innovative and proven techniques for your customized software development life cycle model.

Use of best practices including inspections, proper measurements and metrics, and reporting quality will also be discussed.


Contents

Fundamentals of software quality

  • Concepts related to quality and quality assurance
  • Need of software quality assurance practices
  • Introduction to Software Process Improvement


Software Quality Assurance

  • Establishing SQA function
  • SQA procedures and processes
  • SQA functions in different life cycle processes
  • SQA lifecycle independent functions
  • Critical success factors for SQA
  • Roles and responsibilities of SQA team members
  • Characteristics of a good SQA engineer

Inspections

  • Verification and validation
  • Planning for inspections
  • Conducting software inspections
  • Useful inspection tips



Testing

  • Developer to tester ratio
  • Implementing different testing types and techniques
  • Test case design
  • Test planning and execution
  • Whitebox testing techniques
  • Blackbox testing techniques
  • Testing web applications
  • Agile testing techniques



Continual Quality Improvement

  • Defect analysis
  • Quality improvement based on measurements
  • Tools for analysis
  • Reporting the quality status
  • Developing quality oriented culture in the organization



Benefits

The participants will learn how to:

  • differentiate and implement software quality models in real world.
  • establish and strengthen SQA function in your organization.
  • define the roles and responsibilities of an effective quality assurance group.
  • design and develop Test Plan and Test Cases for large, small and fast-track projects.
  • choose and apply appropriate quality control and testing practices and procedures.
  • conduct effective inspections for design and code.
  • use external certifications to significantly enhance existing practices.
  • develop quality culture in your organization.



Materials Provided

  • Course reference manual containing copy of course slides, support documents, exercises, and their solutions
  • CD containing relevant course material
  • Course Certificate

 

Please Note:

The training schedule is tentative, and can be changed without any prior notice. Business Beam also reserves the right to change the training cost, venue, trainer or training outline of the programs at its sole discretion.