"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

- Thomas Edison

Dr Ted's IT Project Leadership Training facilitates practical skill development of IT project managers and technical leads. Online courses provide relevant and intensive learning journeys for IT professionals working on complex IT solution implementation projects with business processes, multi-vendor environments and technical architectures. Course contents: Testing Phase of IT project.

Learning Goals - Testing Phase of IT Project

1. Increase Understanding of the Relevant IT Project Leadership Skills in Testing Phase
2. Get Ready to Evaluate, Adopt and Apply Personally Most Relevant Skills for Testing Phase
3. Create a Personal Development Plan for Leadership Skills of Testing Phase
4. Perform Better in Daily IT Project Testing Phase Situations

Online Course Contents - Testing Phase of IT Project

1. Overview of IT Project Testing Phase
   
   • Purpose and Goals of the Testing Phase
   • Typical Problems in the Testing Phase
   • How to F*** Up the Testing Phase
2. Functional Testing with Smoke, Fuzzing and Happy Monkeys
   
   • Monkey testing
   • Requirement validation
   • Key user testing
3. Technical Validation of the Invisible
   
   • Technical testing (integrations, performance)
   • Implementation documentation review
   • Hands-on 3rd party audits (security, usability, accessibility)
4. Bring It On: Business End User Testing
   
   • Reality check
   • Business data and logic
   • User acceptance testing (UAT)
5. Applying Leadership Skills in Testing Phase of IT Project
   
   • Summary: Ten Key Points and One Take Home Message
   • Case study: Practical IT Project's Testing Phase Puzzle
   • Personal Skill Development Plan: Example of Dr Ted’s Current Skill Development Plan
     
     

Before Enrolling to Dr Ted's Online Courses

• Evaluate which of Dr Ted's online courses would be most useful for you. Check out the contents of Dr Ted's online courses with 10 IT Project Phases and 10 IT Project Leadership Skills. Familiarize yourself with the possibilities of Dr Ted's learning journeys and what to expect from the learning experience. Read through the FAQ section.
• Make sure that you have sufficient pre-requisite knowledge level. Review the course-specific IT pre-requisites, general IT pre-requisites and general leadership skill pre-requisites to evaluate your current level. Depending on your current level, use the provided pre-study resources as a starting point as much as needed before enrolling to the course to maximize your learning opportunity. At minimum a conceptual level understanding of the listed topics is assumed (the pre-requisites will NOT be explained during the course).
• Be ready for an intensive online course. Your learning experience can be at its best only as good as you make of it. Arrange a time slot and environment where you can focus. During your 'study time' pay uninterrupted attention to the course content. Pick up ideas relevant to you and be ready pause the presentation at times to slowly digest or reflect on the topics. After the course your learning journey continues with applying the learnt skills in practice.
  

"A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.”

- Christopher Pike

Pre-Requisites and Pre-Study Resources

NOTE: The resources provided below are not the most extensive sources of background knowledge. The purpose of these lists is to give an idea of the expected knowledge level and a starting point for effective and relevant pre-study to maximize your learning opportunity from Dr Ted’s training.

General Pre-requisites:

• IT Topics and Terminology (see detailed list)

• Leadership Skills (see detailed list)

Course-specific Pre-requisites: IT Project Testing Concepts

• Basic testing concepts:
  • Software testing (Wikipedia)
  • Functional testing (Wikipedia):
  • Technical validation (Wikipedia)
  • Black-box testing (Wikipedia)
  • White-box testing (Wikipedia)
  • Test plan (Wikipedia)
  • Test case (Wikipedia)
  • Test data (Wikipedia)
  • Bug / defect (Wikipedia)
  • Change request (Wikipedia)
  • Regression testing (Wikipedia)

• Functional testing (Wikipedia):
  • Happy testing (Wikipedia)
  • Monkey testing (Wikipedia)
  • Exploratory testing (Wikipedia)
  • Data validation (Wikipedia)
  • Usability testing (Wikipedia)
  • Localization testing (Wikipedia)
  • Accessibility testing (Wikipedia)
  • User acceptance testing, UAT (Wikipedia)
  • Mobile testing (Wikipedia)
  • Test automation (Wikipedia)

• Technical testing and validation:
  • System testing (Wikipedia)
  • Performance testing (Wikipedia)
  • Load testing (Wikipedia)
  • Security testing (Wikipedia)
  • Penetration test (Wikipedia)
  • Technical validation (Wikipedia)
  • Documentation review (Wikipedia)
  • Continuous testing (Wikipedia)
  • 3^rd party audits (Wikipedia)

"The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat."

- Richard Marcinko

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