6. Test Automation
Defining a test automation strategy and plan
Test tool evaluation and selection
Long term maintenance considerations
Building a performance test team
Calculating ROI of automation
7. Software Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control
Implementing Quality Assurance
Developing effective standards
QA concepts, methods and approaches
Independent Verification and Validation
Prominent quality assurance models such as
methodologies: RAD, CMM/CMMI, Six
Sigma, IEEE standards, Agile and eXtreme,
TQM, and ISO
Build it vs. Buy it: automation strategies/approaches
Developing skills and relevant test automation roles
Selecting which tests to automate and converting from manual to
automated
Categories of automated tools that can be used to aid testing
Test environments - test data, architecture, security, networks, etc
Defining processes
Inspections and review of artifacts other than code
Development and Test lifecycle ́