Live Webinar – December 8th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

• Use cases and their agile brethren, user stories, are popular forms for documenting functional requirements.
• Nearly every requirements document, functional specification, or design document contains some form of use cases.
• Because they describe behavior and distinct outcomes, use cases can be the foundation for test cases.

This presentation will show simple and sophisticated techniques for transforming use cases into effective test cases.

1. Start with techniques for organizing systems into processes and activities.
2. Learn how to define the behavior of these processes and activities in use cases.
3. See how to define distinct scenarios, to partition inputs into different characteristic values, and to relate those scenarios and inputs to expected results.
4. Finally, construct executable test cases from those scenarios, inputs, and results.

You’ll see how to easily produce a good set of test cases – exhaustive enough to give your software a good workout, but intelligent enough not to waste time and effort.

Presenter: Marc Balcer (LinkedIn profile) is an architect at Model Compilers, specializing in using model-driven approaches to analyze, develop, and manage projects in subject matters as diverse as medical instrumentation, telecommunications management, financial services, and transportation logistics. Marc consistently seeks out opportunities for automation in the development process, developing tools to transform information captured during requirements and analysis into executable code.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Control Quality

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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