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Software Quality Assurance: Delivering Consistent Quality

 
Course: 312   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Implement and effectively lead Software Quality Assurance (SQA) activities
  • Improve customer satisfaction through SQA practices
  • Deliver consistent quality through verification and validation best practices
  • Control critical product components using Configuration Management (CM)
  • Analyze data through quality audits to make better decisions
  • Champion a continuous process improvement program in your organization

Course Benefits

Software systems that fail to provide full functionality, performance or otherwise do not meet user needs can reduce profit, productivity and result in costly rework. Optimizing Software Quality Assurance practices results in cost-effective and high-quality software. This course provides the necessary skills to define, design and implement a software quality system using proven techniques tailored for your life cycle model.

Who Should Attend

Software professionals, business analysts and others involved with developing, testing, maintaining or managing the development of software products.

Course Workshop

You apply proven quality assurance techniques in a series of workshops, including:
  • Discovering quality problems
  • Streamlining the process
  • Applying life cycle models
  • Determining the appropriate project standards
  • Conducting peer reviews
  • Identifying configuration items
  • Simulating audit situations
  • Designing metrics for your project

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Software Quality Assurance: Delivering Consistent Quality

 
Course: 312   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 312 Content
 

Introduction to Quality Assurance

  • Defining the purpose of Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
  • The Software Process Framework
  • Recognizing the responsibilities of SQA

Planning for SQA

Analyzing life cycles and methodologies

  • Contrasting traditional and agile life cycles
  • Differentiating SQA activities based on chosen life cycle and methodology
  • Applying SQA tasks to typical phases within a life cycle

Identifying the activities involved

  • Aligning SQA with the organizational quality system
  • Defining the roles and responsibilities within SQA
  • Implementing best practices and industry standards

Creating the SQA plan: the roadmap for quality

  • Choosing the right industry practices for your organization
  • IEEE
  • CMMI
  • ISO 9001
  • Developing a workable plan for quality products

Implementing Verification and Validation Approaches

Applying static verification techniques for error detection

  • Defining verification and software testing
  • Analyzing life cycle products
  • Conducting reviews

Implementing dynamic validation methods

  • Validating the tests product requirements and functionality
  • Defining the test phases: Unit, Integration, System and Acceptance

Detecting defects while applying inspection techniques

  • Defining the inspection process
  • Conducting an inspection
  • Communicating inspection results

Applying Configuration Management (CM)

Defining the components of a CM system

  • Identifying work products
  • Managing and controlling products for consistency
  • Assessing and managing components with release management
  • Communicating product status using reports

Ensuring quality by controlling CM components

  • Verifying software and hardware components
  • Maintaining test data for regression tests
  • Tracking change requests

Auditing the Software Process

Initiating the auditing process

  • Planning, preparing for and conducting the audit
  • Reporting the results

Assessing compliance to ensure quality processes

  • Complying with industry standards and models: ISO 9001 and CMMI
  • Comparing the work products against industry benchmarks

Delivering quality with configuration audits

  • Demonstrating the product satisfies the requirements
  • Ensuring operational suitability

Improving productivity using in-process audits

  • Assessing internal processes for compliance
  • Analyzing processes and procedures used during development

Continuous Process Improvement

Fostering learning through process improvement

  • Defining and implementing process improvement
  • Planning process improvement initiatives

Achieving excellence through metrics

  • Selecting and analyzing metrics
  • Analyzing data through root cause analysis
  • Communicating organizational progress

Coordinating the next steps

  • Networking through process improvement organizations
  • Leveraging technology innovations
 
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Software Quality Assurance: Delivering Consistent Quality Tuition

 
Course: 312   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,650 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,660 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,385 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,360 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,665 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $4,990
Flex Pass
  • 3 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,830 per course
  • Save as much as 35%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,150
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $950 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,095 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $295 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

Your Guarantee of Satisfaction

Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course--and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

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Enroll by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
 
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