Better Testing, Better Product Tutorial

This intensive one-day tutorial offers anintroduction to fundamental techniques foreffective development of test plans and testcases. The course covers the formalprinciples, processes and documentation ofsoftware verification and validation.

Build Better Products: Get the skills you need to boost productivity, improve testing procedures, and help build better software.

Get Your Product to Market: Write shorter, cleaner test cases that will be easier to read, understand and execute.

Reduce Costs, Grow Profit: Discover how good testing practice can create additional profit by reducing test and development costs and by increasing revenues from product improvements and market delivery improvements.

Learning Objectives:

1. Communicate with team members using a shared vocabulary that is widely accepted in industry.
2. Apply execution-based testing principles that guide effectivetesting activities.
3. Select and combine appropriate software testing strategies, techniques and methods for even more effective systems during both the test planning and test execution phases of a software development project.
4. Apply a focused black-box approach to designing test cases that is useful for revealing requirements and specification defects.

Testimonials:

"Scott did a great job in putting together a very direct and concise, one-day seminar on "Better Testing, Better Products". His knowledgeable, business value added approach to the testing concepts really provided a great perspective on what makes projects (and business) successful. His inclusive facilitation style kept us all involved and made the day go by very quickly. This was a great starting point for further development from Scott."~ Dave Klein, Director of Claims Software Testing at Zurich Financial Services

Instructor:

Scott Stribrny brings nearly 40-years of experience in software, systems, and management to his client engagements and his Loyola Executive Education courses. An internationally acknowledged authority in project management, information systems/technology, systems engineering, and lean development and management, Scott is revolutionizing the intersections of business, technology, and organizational risks.

Beginning a corporate career with a start-up firm that went from zero to 100 million dollars in just five years, Scott moved on to a Fortune 50 conglomerate where he worked with industry leading engineers, scientists, and the executive suite. As a leader, Scott was responsible for the development of groundbreaking products and services where he applied best practices in project management. His accumulated management experience ranges across many industries, including aerospace, telecommunications, finance, insurance, retail, information services, and manufacturing.

Scott is President, co-founder, and managing director of Group Atlantic, Inc.; a senior consultant in the business technologies strategies practice for IT research company the Cutter Consortium; and a thought leader at the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. He is widely published on the subjects of risk management and project/program management and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and company events. He teaches courses on leadership development, agile, high-performance teams, requirements definition, risk management, and project estimating, always providing practical, applicable (or actionable) knowledge and content and an innovative, refreshing, and engaging delivery.