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DT offers a core set of courses aimed at covering the Application Lifecycle, from requirements gathering, analysis and design to development, testing, process and project management.

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DefineIT Essentials


Course Overview
DefineIT Essentials introduces the analyst or business user to the fundamental skills of requirements definition using DefineIT. .

What will I learn?
DefineIT Essentials is a 1-day, hands-on training class designed to demonstrate how to use DefineIT in requirements elicitation processes and activities. By the end of the class, learners will be able to use DefineIT in requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation through storyboarding as well as be able to synchronize with CaliberRM and export test cases.

Course Style

 

Requirments
Experience in requirements elicitation and definition preferred
Experience with CaliberRM or SilkTest (optional modules)

 

Course Contents 

Requirements Activities Overview

  • Key requirements activities

  • Types of requirements and those supported by DefineIT

Introduction to DefineIT

  • Requirements activities supported by DefineIT

  • Key features of the DefineIT environment and GUI

  • Help and Cheat Sheets

Requirements Elicitation

  • Navigating DefineIT

  • Creating a new requirements elicitation project

  • Creating and linking requirements, scenarios, and actors

Requirements Analysis

  • Authoring and editing steps, decision points, and branches in a scenario

  • Using text-based and graphical tools to create scenario steps

  • Creating a new scenario from steps within a scenario / invoking another requirement from a scenario

  • Metrics

Requirements Specification

  • Adding/attaching items to scenarios

  • Resources

Requirements Validation

  • Validate requirements and scenarios

  • Story Boarding

  • Creating online story boards

Integration with CaliberRM

  • Export DefineIT requirements to CaliberRM

  • Synchronize requirements between DefineIT and CaliberRM

Test Cases

  • Test cases generated by DefineIT

  • Generating test cases for a requirement

  • Exporting test cases as HTML

  • Exporting test cases to SilkCentral

     

Duration
1 days

Cost
£395 plus VAT

Recommended reading & follow on courses

Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach,
ISBN-10: 032112247X, ISBN-13: 978-0321122476

UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modelling Language,
SBN-10: 0321193687


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Who has been on this course before

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