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Introduction and Course Over. View Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 1

Introduction • Few topics can lower the mood of an experienced Test Manager than the mention of Test Strategies and Test Plans • In all too many cases these documents seem to • End up taking forever and a day to complete • Take even longer to get signed off • End up satisfying no one • And then spend the rest of their lives gathering dust on a shelf Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 2

Introduction • This course aims to show that things don’t need to be like that • That there is a way to make these documents useful and relevant • even when the scope and timescale of a project changes Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 3

• Most of your colleagues, outside of testing, probably know little of the detail of the testing process • Although they may think they do… Introduction • Test Strategies and Test Plans provide the Test Manager with an almost unique opportunity to explain in detail • What Testing is aiming to deliver • Why it is going about the task in the way it plans to • How the work of the test team is integral to the project as a whole and not an add-on • How testing cannot be successful without the support and assistance of other teams Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 4

Introduction • And we are foolish if we do not take this opportunity and try and make the most of it! Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 5

The Bigger Picture • The sessions we will work through are actually drawn from a much broader 3 day training course that Amadori also run Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 6

• “Delivering Effective Test Management” • which lasts for 3 days in total The Bigger Picture • Stresses that Effective Test Strategies and Test Plans are just one key element in creating an environment within which Effective Testing can be introduced AND sustained long term Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 7

The Bigger Picture • Improving the format and content of Test Strategies and Test Plans will, even in isolation, make a significant difference to the quality of the testing you and your team deliver Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 8

The Bigger Picture • But • To fully reap the benefits of changes in this area • You also require • An effective test process • The right team of testers behind you • Effective working relationships with other stakeholders Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 9

The Bigger Picture • And the longer course shows how improvements and changes in one area will impact, support and improve other areas also Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans 10

• Today’s course begins by looking at what the different between a Test Strategy and a Test Plan should be in terms of content, purpose and level of detail • There will then be couple of sessions on the detail of the Test Strategy High Level Overview • A session on how a Test Plan should relate back to the Test Strategy it is written to support • Detail on exactly what you should put into a Test Plan and where you should look to reference other low level project documents instead • And a concluding session in which we review the above and ensure that everyone is clear on the different purposes of each document as they relate to their own projects Amadori Courses: Effective Test Strategies and Plans

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