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Quality Assurance and Requirements

Course Category: Specialized
Course Duration: 1 day
Course Credit: **7 PDU

• ** Applications are in and awaiting approval

Prerequisites: None

On-Site Course Pricing:

• 15 or Fewer Students: $7400
• 16-30 Students: $9300

Defective requirements result in cost overruns, schedule slips, and unhappy customers. In order to avoid incomplete or erroneous requirements, it is critical that all project stakeholders review the requirements from their own unique perspective. Doing so will ensure that the requirements are good, that is, they are necessary, concise, attainable and complete.

It is essential that those QA personnel responsible for verifying the delivered solution during testing be equipped with the necessary tools and techniques to identify requirement defects early in the project. With these skills in their repertoire they can get defects removed before they impact design, build and testing. They can also identify changes needed in the process to prevent these defects in future products.

This seminar has been specifically designed to address the needs of those performing a QA function on the project. It is a targeted seminar to train attendees on how to identify defects in requirements as early as possible to improve the quality at every step in the process and to produce the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost.

Course Objective

To provide knowledge and skills to increase the quality of your products and to reduce overall schedule and costs of product development and delivery.

Develop skills to enable you to:

• Quickly spot requirement defects at various points in the product life-cycle
• Communicate to authors the problem with the requirement and how to fix it
• Capture other information to improve your requirement process
• Modify your process to reduce the number of defects in the future
• Communicate with management to make changes to increase quality and to reduce overall schedule and costs.

Course Outline

• Problem overview
  • Lack of scope information
  • Defective requirement causes
  • Life-cycle times for spotting requirement defects
• Common defects and how QA can spot them
  • Not real requirements
  • Not verifiable
  • Poor terminology leading to ambiguities
  • Implementation not a requirement
• The next level of requirement problems and what QA can do to identify the issues and the risks
  • Using scope to look for missing or conflicting requirements
  • Using traceability and allocation to identify requirement issues
• Requirement Validation methods and how to use them to get better requirements from the authors
  • Continuous validation
    • Providing authors checklists
    • Providing gatekeeper to reduce errors
    • Other areas QA can suggest for improvements
  • Discrete validation
    • Requirement Reviews
    • Design Reviews
    • Test Review
• Metrics

Intended Audience

• Quality Assurance Personnel
• Quality Assurance Managers

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