Reliable techniques to estimate your testing effort
How long will the testing take? That's a question we test professionals often struggle to answer, and, when we do, the response is often, “That's too long!”
In this practical, hands-on course, we'll guide you through the tricky questions of test estimation:
- Can we use risk to determine what we should test, and how extensively?
- What tasks must we carry out to be ready to perform those tests when the time comes?
- Can we combine techniques like work-breakdown-structures, historical project data, and rules of thumb to estimate the time and money required for those tasks?
- How can we respond to management requests to compress testing efforts into pre-existing schedule or budget targets?
In this experience-based presentation, lively group discussion, hypothetical case study, and a realistic running exercise will put the essential estimation tools in your hands so you'll be ready for your next testing project.
This course draws on Rex Black's best-selling book, Managing the Testing Process (2ed) and his book, Critical Testing Processes.
Click here to see the full course description of the Software Test Estimation training course.
Training Courses in Wellington New Zealand
The Software Test Estimation training course will run in Wellington New Zealand on the following dates: 12 July 2012, 08 November 2012.
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