Target Audience

The course is appropriate for both Novice and Experienced engineers and testers who are involved with writing, reviewing or contributing to the content of requirements and for testers who test based on requirements.

Course Objectives

After the completion of the course, the participants would be able to:
- Importance of Requirements in the software development life cycle
- Requirement engineering process
- Recognize good and bad requirements
- Identify unclear and wrong requirements
- Correct ambiguities in specifications to reduce or eliminate re-work and to make testing more effective
- Deliver requirements that are concise, accurate, modular, and highly testable

Day 1

Introduction
- Participants
- Familiarization with course material
- Familiarization with the protocols and timings
- Expectation setting and clarifications

Criticality of Requirements
- Basics of Requirements
- The Requirement Gathering and Engineering Process – Elicitation, Analysis, Documentation and Validation
- Identifying Requirements
- Types of Requirements
- Impact of Requirements on costs of development
- Impacts on Schedules

Tea Break

Characteristics of Good Requirements

Lunch time

Requirements and Testing Key Characteristics of Testability
- Key characteristics of Testability
- Tester Mindset
- Requirement Traceability

Tea Break
Industry Guidelines for Requirements
- IEEE Standards
- UML

Day 2

Identifying Ambiguities in Specification
- How ambiguities creep into requirements
- Identifying ambiguities

Tea Break

Defining clear Objectives and Problem Statements

Ensuring Commonality
- Common Expectation
- Common Language
- Common “world view”

Lunch time

Writing Style Guidelines for Describing Processes/Use Cases
- Style suggestions for readability
- Describing decision logic and transforms
- Impact of physical design
- Structured English vs. pseudo code

Tea Break
Writing Style Guidelines for Describing Data
Guidelines for Naming Processes and Data
Automated Requirements Management

Course Wrap-Up

• All cancellations must be made in writing - either by mail, e-mail, or fax.
• All payments must be received by ETI prior to the start of the workshop/seminar.
• If cancelled 5 calendar days, or later, prior to the start date or for no-shows - NO REFUND
• If cancelled 6-30 calendar days prior to the start date - 50 % of the workshop/seminar fee will be non-refundable.
• If cancelled prior to 30 calendar days to the start date - A full refund will be issued.
• You are welcome to substitute if you cannot attend, but please notify in advance.
• You may reschedule with at least four weeks notice prior to the workshop/seminar for which you are currently registered.
• Please send all cancellations and substitutions to training@edistatesting.com or call 91-80-415-74806, Attn: Workshop Coordinator

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For more information contact us at corporate@edistatesting.com or 91-80-415-74806