Silk Test - Managing Quality with SilkCentral Test Manager

Course Overview
A three day training course aimed at Business Manager, Quality Assurance Project Leaders and Engineers who need to develop a working knowledge of Silk Central Test manager user and project management, requirement creation and test case definition, execute tests and results interpretation.

Who should attend?
QA project leaders and testers, analysts, engineers and supervisors who need to develop a working knowledge of our testing methodology and recorders to test web or client-server applications.

What will I learn?
You will uncover new ways to manage user accounts and execution server locations; configure projects; manage test requirements; create test and execution definitions. Through hands on exercises, you will schedule tests for manual and unattended testing, and you will also review the different reports available within SCTM.

Course Contents

Introduction to SCTM

+ SCTM Architecture
+ SCTM’s Interface

Setting the Stage
+ What are Requirements?

Defining Requirements
+ Requirements Unit
+ Requirements Hierarchy
+ Office Import Tool
+ CaliberRM Integration Overview

Creating a Test Plan
+ Generating a Test Plan
+ Assigning Test Definitions to Requirements

The Execution Unit
+ Defining Test Executions
+ Assigning Test Definitions to Test Executions
+ Configuring Deployment Environments
+ Scheduling Test Executions
+ Configuring Execution Dependencies

Creating Manual Tests
+ Creating Test Definitions
+ The Manual Testing Client
+ Changes to Test-Case Definitions

Executing Manual Tests
+ Execution Definitions
+ Creating Execution Definitions
+ Executing Manual Definitions
+ Executing Test Definitions
+ Stopping an Execution Definition

Issue Manager
+ Using Inboxes
+ Entering New Issues
+ Processing Issues
+ Taking Action on Issues
+ Issues, Queries and Reports
+ Generating Reports 

Prerequisites
Familiarity with a Windows environment. Ability to navigate in an Internet or intranet environment. Have a basic knowledge of software quality or test management. Working knowledge of SilkTest and/or SilkPerformer
 

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Duration
 3 days

Cost £1,250 plus VAT

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