Verifying and Validating the Solution

Course overview

Learn to reduce conflict, decrease defects, and increase customer satisfaction through implementation of requirements verification and validation processes. Develop superior documentation skills. Discover models that guide requirements management. Establish compliance to industry standards. Create requirements traceability processes. Tailor fundamental elements of the test process to various development environments. Reduce overhead by tailoring the traceability approach to the level of project risk. Discover how to lead the customer and development teams through the user acceptance test..

Prerequisites

• A comprehensive introductory business analysis course such as Principles of Business Analysis (HE551S) plus Crafting High Quality Requirements (HE555S)

Audience

This course is intended for business analysts and related professionals such as Project Managers, QA Managers, Project Customers, Technical Leads, Systems Engineers or anyone with a substantive role in the success of projects.

Certification Value

Successful completion of this course earns 21 educational contact hours or PDUs which may be applied to meet PMI® education requirements.
Successful completion of this course earns 24 educational contact hours or CDUs which may be applied to meet IIBA® requirements for initial or continuing certification.

Course objectives

• Describe how the Business Analyst (BA) applies V&V to support a business solution
• Describe the verifying and validating process within the phases of the Business Solution Life Cycle (BSLC)
• Delineate between the roles and responsibilities of the business analyst, project manager and technical manager within the verifying and validating process
• Explain the value that the verifying and validating process brings to a project in the areas of both quality and risk management
• Apply risk management techniques from a business analyst perspective
• Identify options of verifying and validating testing tools and techniques and discuss their applicability
• Discuss delivery of verified and validated solutions with confidence during the delivery phase of the Business Solution Life Cycle

Next steps

• Please contact your local HP Education representative for details

Benefits to you

• Understand the essential verification and validation concepts and techniques that drive test plan creation for a small to medium application development project
• Learn to define the drivers for a collaborative team environment during a testing effort

Course outline

• Defining Verification and Validation
• Benefits of V&V
• Key V&V Challenges
• Business Solution Life Cycle and V&V
• Role of V&V
• V&V and Impact on Quality
• Cost of Quality
• Cost Impact of Defects
• V&V and Requirements Traceability
• Change Impact Analysis
• Verification Techniques
• Validation Techniques

V&V Activities in the Design Phase

• V&V and Risk Management
• Portfolio-level Risk Assessment
• Component-level Project Risk Identification
• Test Plan: Critical BA Risk Planning for V&V
• The Project Manager Role: Risk Identification
• Project Management and Risk Analysis
• Organizational Risk Tolerance
• Project Manager Role: Risk Response Plan Preparation
• Test Plan Preparation, Purpose, and Payoff
• The Test Case Defined
• Defect Report
• V&V Best Practices in Design Phase

V&V Tests during Construction and Test Phases

• Types of V&V Tests
• V&V Testing Methods
• V&V Testing Best Practices

V&V and Software Testing Techniques

• Testing Considerations
• Software Testing Methods: Structural, Functional, and Supplemental
• Roles and Responsibilities: BA and Test Lead (TL)

V&V and Business Solution Attainment

• Testing Period
• Acceptance Testing Defined
• Types of Acceptance Tests
• Acceptance Test Criteria, Guidelines and Formats

V&V during the Deliver and Operations and Maintenance Phases

• Purpose of V&V during Delivery Phase
• Product Support during Delivery Phase
• Initial Customer Satisfaction Verification
• V&V during Operations and Maintenance

Course Summary