CTG Academy - Introduction to Microfocus ALM

Microfocus ALM is a test management tool that covers the principal test activities of a test process. Microfocus ALM offers software quality assurance, including requirements management, test management and business process testing for IT and application environments

Participants will learn how to manage quality information throughout the development cycle, construct and organise requirements, create and execute test sets, monitor defects, and use graphs and reports to track the success of a project.

Upcoming

Currently no (other) upcoming dates are planned for this course

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Course Objectives

At the end of the course you will be able to:

Create releases and cycles
Define requirements
Analyse risks associated with requirements
Organise subjects and tests in a test plan tree
Design and create test plans
Generate test scripts from design steps
Create test sets
Execute manual and automated tests
Record and track test execution results
Log and manage defects
Generate reports and graphs

Typical Audience

This course is intended for anyone involved in testing and quality matters, including test engineers, test managers, project managers and quality managers.

Course Prerequisites

Participants should preferably have as a basic understanding of the testing process, although this prerequisite is not mandatory.

Course Venue

The course duration is 2 days.

This course can be given at the client’s site or at CTG.

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Pricing

€ 1000/person for 2 days. All prices are VAT excluded; course material, lunch and beverages are included.

Cancellation

By Participant: If a subscribed course participant is replaced by another participant or if the public course is postponed to a later date, no cancellation costs apply. A participant or a group that fails to attend, or that cancels a course without at least 15 working days written notice prior to the course start, is liable for the full subscription cost.
By CTG: CTG reserves the right to cancel a course at any time.

Course Logistics

All classroom courses begin promptly at 9 am and are scheduled until 5 pm.
All courses are organised at the CTG premises in Diegem (Belgium) or can be given at the client site and are available for groups as well. Please contact us if you wish further information.
The standard language of each course is English.

* Prices subject to VAT

Introduction

Working with releases

Understand the relationship between releases and cycles
Create release tree
Tie requirements to releases and cycles
View requirement coverage by cycle
Tie tests to releases and cycles

Defining Requirements

Understand requirement types
Create and define requirements
Build a requirements tree
Tie requirements to releases and cycles

Test Planning

Build a test plan tree
Create tests
Link tests and requirements
Use parameters in tests
Configure a test to call other tests
Monitor the status of test plans
Create and configure test configurations

Test Execution

Build a test sets tree
Define and schedule test execution flows
Execute manual and automated tests
Record and review test execution results
Monitor the status of test sets

Defect Tracking

Log defects
Search and review defects
Associate defects to other entities
Update a defect
Track the status of defects

Report and Analysis

Generate analysis reports and graphs
Generate Microsoft Excel reports

Meet our trainers

CTG's trainers are experts in their domain and bring the course content based on their experience. Meet some of our trainers below.

Sven Borghers

Test Consultant

Bjorn Boischot

Solution Architect Testing

Contact

Europe

CTG Belgium NV

Culliganlaan 1D
1831 DIEGEM
Belgium
phone: +32 2 720 51 70
fax: +32 2 725 09 20

North-America

Buffalo,New York
300 Corporate Parkway
Suite 214N
Amherst, NY 14226
phone: +1 716 882 8000
fax: +1 716 887 7464

Introduction to Microfocus ALM