Agile Quality Assurance with Microsoft® Test Manager and TFS in Atlanta, GA

Full Course Description

The four phases of the course are:

Planning: Students will develop test strategies and test cases to verify requirements and learn to identify meaningful testable acceptance criteria.

Executing: Students will execute test plans and test cases while taking advantage of the key features of the tools.

Collaborating: Students will experience real-time collaboration techniques to communicate details of bugs, facilitate triage, and resolve issues.

Reporting: Students will learn about quality metrics and how their work measurably improves the quality of the system-under-development.

Audience:

Quality assurance engineers and testers on agile teams using Microsoft Test Manager, Lab Manager, and Team Foundation Server

Students will be able to:

• Model requirements in user stories
• Capture testable acceptance criteria in the requirements
• View product backlog and work items planned for an iteration or sprint
• Size, prioritize, and define done for work items
• Understand and select appropriate testing strategies
• Develop test suites, test cases, and test procedures to address acceptance criteria
• Execute test suites and test cases to verify that acceptance criteria are met
• Collect test details including environment attributes, execution details, and video recordings
• Understand the lifecycle of a bug including creation, triage, rework, resolution, and close
• Link tests and bugs back to their driving requirements
• Verify bug resolution and close a bug
• Use manual testing for cases where automation isn’t viable or hasn’t been employed
• Use automated testing when possible and recognize the benefits of automated re-testing
• Use load testing to verify the scalability of the system-under-development
• Use Microsoft Lab Manager to execute tests across multiple virtualized environments
• Update, track, and share key metrics about the quality of the system-under-development