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Course Outline

QA/CI

  • What is QA?
  • What is CI?
  • The costs associated with software development, refactoring, and fixing errors
  • Identifying and understanding the project
  • Organizational benefits

DDD

  • Software development driven by business requirements and DDD assumptions
  • Communication challenges between IT and Business
  • Domain Model

Best Practices

  • KISS principle and DRY
  • Coding standards
  • Creating reusable code through OOP and design patterns
  • Identifying and reducing cyclomatic complexity

Software Metrics

  • Weighted Method per Class
  • Response For a Class
  • Depth of Inheritance Tree
  • Coupling Between Objects
  • Lack of Cohesion of Methods
  • Number of Children
  • Cyclomatic Complexity
  • Class Metrics
  • Model Metrics
  • Metrics for Use

Software Testing

  • What, when, and how to test?
  • White-box and black-box testing methods
  • The role of testing in agile methodologies
  • TDD: only a potential increase in project cost?
  • Unit testing
  • Behavioral tests
  • Functional tests

Refactoring

  • What is refactoring?
  • Technical debt
  • Code smells
  • Refactoring patterns

Documentation

  • The role of documentation in agile methodologies
  • What to document?
  • Types of documentation
  • Documentation and agile methodologies, or: 'Working software over comprehensive documentation'?
  • Standard XMI
  • Automatic generation of documentation

Tools and Environment for CI

  • Tools and environment for Continuous Integration

Agile and CI/QA

  • Planning and incremental development
  • Embracing change
  • Short development stages
  • Interdisciplinary teams
  • Extreme Programming and Code Review
  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Summation

  • Discussion
  • Questions
  • How to begin the implementation process?

Introduction to Testing

  • Functional Tests
  • Regression Tests
  • UAT Tests
  • Unit Tests
  • Usability Tests
  • Non-Functional Tests
  • Performance Tests
  • Load Tests
  • Stress Tests
  • Soak Tests

To Test or Not to Test

  • Who decides what should be tested?
  • The cost of testing irrelevant items
  • Calculating ROI (what happens if something fails analysis)
  • The role of the Test Manager

The Testing Process

  • Testing as a process and strategy
  • Identifying testing needs
  • Gathering requirements (use cases, user stories)
  • Scoping (selecting and prioritizing scenarios)
  • Designing tests
  • Preparing data
  • Preparing the environment
  • Creating or recording tests
  • Executing the test
  • Analysis and reporting
  • Conclusions and improvements
  • When to say 'stop'?

Product Owner and Tests

  • The customer representative and test prioritization
  • Prioritizing tests
  • Writing effective user stories for UAT
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Group exercise: defining customer requirements, writing user stories based on those requirements, and creating corresponding tests
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