Overview
Business Analysts can have a massive impact on the success or failure of a project, both in the designing and testing of the system, but what testing is, and how we do it, are commonly not taught as part of the Business Analysts curriculum.
Often the Business Analyst is required to fill multiple roles including that of tester.
In other projects, Business Analysts are asked to support the testers. This can simply be done by providing of information to the testers.
As part of an Agile team, a Business Analyst would be expected to test the software, quality is everyone’s responsibility.
The aim of this course is to introduce the core concepts of software testing and show how the Business Analyst can get involved to help maximise the chance of high quality testing happening.
Prerequisites
The learner is expected to have a basic understanding of BA roles and responsibilities.
Target audience
This includes IT and / or business professionals with experience in Business Analysis.
Learning Outcomes
In this course, you’ll learn about:
- The core concepts of software testing
- How Business Analysts can support software testers
- How Business Analysts can be involved in software testing
Course Outline
During this one-day introduction course, you will cover the following topics:
- Fundamentals of testing
- What is testing
- Testing principles
- The test process
- Software development lifecycle models
- Test levels and test types
- Early (static) testing
- Using simple word checks, SMART and INVEST, and checklists to evaluate documentation and find defects
- Using early test design to evaluate documentation and find defects
- Creating examples to explain requirements and acceptance criteria
- Later stage testing
- System testing
- User acceptance testing
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