Manage Project Knowledge Let’s talk about managing project knowledge. This is a new process in the PMBOK Guide 6th edition. So I would expect you’ll see plenty of exam questions on this. On your PMI exam let’s check out the edo’s and talk about manage project knowledge. Our inputs will be the project management plan. Our project documents things like the lessons learned, your different team assignments, a resource breakdown structure, source selection criteria, talking about choosing vendors and the stakeholder register you’ll have deliverables so past work creates things….

Section Overview: Get the Most from the Course All right, welcome to section two in our course about the PMP exam prep seminar. In this section, we’re going to talk about how do you get the most from the scores you’ve paid for the course. You’re investing time in the course, and the goal of the course is you passing the PMP. So we might as well create a strategy about how can you get the most out of this course. No one wants to take a class and then…

Section Overview: Project Management Foundations Welcome to Section Five where we’re going to talk about the project management foundations. In this section we’re going to really look at the big picture of project management. This is a really important section to build a strong foundation on how the Pimbok guide addresses project management and what project is and what a project is not. We’re going to talk about the temporary nature of projects, how that also means the temporary nature of teams. But what about the deliverables, the things that…

Test Estimation When we put a plan, we need to estimate the effort needed to execute the plan. We can use the estimated effort to estimate other elements like the time needed, the number of resources needed, and the budget needed. There are many techniques to estimate the different elements needed for the plan. The Http curriculum mentioned only two techniques metrics based and expert based techniques. Let’s look at each one of them. The Metrics Based Approach to understand this approach, let’s give an example. First, if your previous…

Test Strategy and Test Approach A testing strategy provides a generalized description of the test process, usually at the product or organizational level. The testing strategy describes at a high level, independent of any specific project, the how of testing for an organization. The choice of the testing strategy is one of the powerful factors, if not the most powerful factor in the success of the test effort and the action you see of the test plans and estimates. Let’s look at the major types of test strategies that are…

Risk And Testing We have mentioned before how risk is an important factor in the testing activity. We base our testing efforts or bonds amount of risk in delivering the product too early. If the risk is high, then we need to spend more effort in testing the software. If the risk is low enough, then we can deliver the software. Definition of Risk so what is risk? After all? There are two parts to the definition of risk. The first part, risk involves the possibility of an event in…

Special Considerations for Test Execution Tools In order to have a smooth and successful implementation. There are a number of things that should be considered when selecting and integrating test execution tools into an organization. As we mentioned before, test execution tools test the software using automated test scripts. This type of tools often require significant effort in order to attract achieve significant benefits. Test execution tools are used by testers. Therefore, any tester who wishes to use a scripting test execution tool will need to use programming skills to…

Tools Support for Testing: Introduction As seen in the previous sections, there are many tasks and activities that need to be performed during the testing process. In order to assist in making the testing process easier to perform and manage, many different types of tools or software applications have been developed and used for a wide variety of testing tasks. Some of them have been developed inhouse by an organization’s own software development team and testing department. Others have been developed by software houses to sell to organizations that perform…

Test Levels vs Test Types One last thing to talk about is the relationship between test levels and test types. What kind of test types can be performed at each test level? Let’s consider a banking application and look at the relationship one by one for a banking application, starting with functional tests. For component testing, tests are designed based on how a component should calculate compound interest. For component integration testing, tests are designed based on how account information captured at the user interface is passed through the business…

Testing Levels : Integration Testing Now that each unit has been proven to be working correctly, individually and ready to go, the next level would be to put those units together to build the system. This is what we call integration. At this stage, testers concentrate slowly on the integration itself. For example, if they are integrating module A with module B, they are interested in testing the community between those modules, not the functionality of the individual module, as that was done already during component testing tests. Thus, examples…