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Course Outline
Software Engineering (5 Days)
Day 1: Project Management
- Distinctions between project management, line management, maintenance, and support
- Project definition and types of projects
- General management principles and specific project management techniques
- Various management styles
- Unique characteristics of IT projects
- Foundational project processes
- Iterative, incremental, waterfall, agile, and lean project methodologies
- Project phases
- Project roles and responsibilities
- Project documentation and deliverables
- Soft skills and human factors
- Project management standards: PRINCE2, PMBOK, PMI, IPMA, and others
Day 2: Business Analysis and Requirements Engineering Fundamentals
- Defining business objectives
- Business analysis, business process management, and business process improvement
- Separating business analysis from system analysis
- System stakeholders, users, context, and boundaries
- The necessity of requirements
- Understanding requirements engineering
- The boundary between requirements engineering and architectural design
- Where requirements engineering is often overlooked
- Requirements engineering in iterative, lean, and agile development, including continuous integration: FDD, DDD, BDD, TDD
- Foundational requirements engineering process, roles, and deliverables
- Standards and certifications: BABOK, ISO/IEEE 29148, IREB, BCS, IIBA
Day 3: Architecture and Development Fundamentals
- Programming languages: structural and object-oriented paradigms
- Object-oriented development: historical context and future prospects
- Architectural attributes: modularity, portability, maintainability, and scalability
- Definition and types of software architectures
- Enterprise architecture versus system architecture
- Programming styles
- Programming environments
- Common programming errors and prevention strategies
- Modelling architecture and components
- SOA, Web Services, and micro-services
- Automated builds and continuous integration
- The extent of architecture design in projects
- Extreme programming, TDD, and refactoring
Day 4: Quality Assurance and Testing Fundamentals
- Product quality: definitions, ISO 25010, FURPS, etc.
- Product quality, user experience, Kano Model, customer experience management, and holistic quality
- User-centred design, personas, and strategies for personalized quality
- Adequate quality
- Quality Assurance versus Quality Control
- Risk strategies in quality control
- Quality assurance components: requirements, process control, configuration and change management, verification, validation, testing, static testing, and static analysis
- Risk-based quality assurance
- Risk-based testing
- Risk-driven development
- Boehm’s curve in quality assurance and testing
- The four testing schools: selecting the approach that fits your needs
Day 5: Process Types, Maturity, and Process Improvement
- The evolution of IT processes: from Alan Turing and IBM to the lean startup
- Processes and process-oriented organizations
- Historical perspective on processes in crafts and industries
- Process modelling: UML, BPMN, and more
- Process management, optimization, re-engineering, and process management systems
- Innovative process approaches: Deming, Juran, TPS, Kaizen
- Is quality free? (Philip Crosby)
- The need for and history of maturity improvement: CMMI, SPICE, and other scales
- Special maturity types: TMM, TPI (for testing), Requirements Engineering Maturity (Gorschek)
- Process maturity versus product maturity: correlations and causal relationships
- Process maturity versus business success: correlations and causal relationships
- Lessons from Automated Defect Prevention and the next leap in productivity
- Initiatives: TQM, Six Sigma, agile retrospectives, process frameworks
Requirements Engineering (2 Days)
Day 1: Requirements Elicitation, Negotiation, Consolidation, and Management
- Identifying requirements: what, when, and who
- Stakeholder classification
- Overlooked stakeholders
- Defining system context and identifying requirement sources
- Elicitation methods and techniques
- Prototyping, personas, and elicitation through testing (exploratory and other methods)
- Marketing and requirements elicitation: MDRA (Market-Driven Requirements Engineering)
- Prioritizing requirements: MoSCoW, Karl Wiegers, and other techniques (including agile MMF)
- Refining requirements: agile "specification by example"
- Requirements negotiation: types of conflicts and resolution methods
- Resolving internal conflicts between requirement types (e.g., security vs. usability)
- Requirements traceability: purpose and methodology
- Changes in requirement status
- Requirements CCM, versioning, and baselines
- Product view versus project view on requirements
- Product management and requirements management within projects
Day 2: Requirements Analysis, Modelling, Specification, Verification, and Validation
- Analysis as the iterative thinking process between elicitation and specification
- The iterative nature of the requirements process, even in sequential projects
- Natural language requirements: risks and benefits
- Requirements modelling: advantages and costs
- Rules for using natural language in requirements specification
- Defining and managing a requirements glossary
- UML, BPMN, and other formal/semi-formal modelling notations for requirements
- Using document and sentence templates for requirements description
- Requirements verification: goals, levels, and methods
- Validation through prototyping, reviews, inspections, and testing
- Requirements validation versus system validation
Testing (2 Days)
Day 1: Test Design, Execution, and Exploratory Testing
- Test design: optimizing time and resources after risk-based testing
- Test design "from infinity to here": understanding that exhaustive testing is impossible
- Test cases and test scenarios
- Test design across various test levels (from unit to system)
- Test design for static and dynamic testing
- Business-oriented and technique-oriented test design ("black-box" and "white-box")
- Negative testing (breaking the system) and acceptance testing (supporting developers)
- Achieving test coverage: various coverage measures
- Experience-based test design
- Deriving test cases from requirements and system models
- Test design heuristics and exploratory testing
- Timing of test case design: traditional versus exploratory approaches
- Describing test cases: determining appropriate detail levels
- Psiychological aspects of test execution
- Logging and reporting during test execution
- Designing tests for "non-functional" testing
- Automated test design and Model-Based Testing (MBT)
Day 2: Test Organization, Management, and Automation
- Test levels (or phases)
- Who conducts testing and when? Various models
- Test environments: cost, administration, access, and responsibility
- Simulators, emulators, and virtual test environments
- Testing within agile scrum
- Test team organization and roles
- The test process
- Test automation: identifying automatable elements
- Test execution automation: approaches and tools
63 Hours
Custom Corporate Training
Training solutions designed exclusively for businesses.
- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
Price per private group, online live training, starting from 6500 € + VAT*
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Testimonials (3)
hands on exercises, easier to retain information
ashley bolen - Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Course - Test Automation with Selenium
Key topics can be discussed and agreed upon with the trainer in advance. Relaxed and pleasant atmosphere during the seminar days.
Lorenz - Continentale Lebensversicherung AG
Course - Advanced Selenium
I gained new knowledge and I'm pretty confident about it. Nothing unclear.
