Requirements Analysis Using Use Cases and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for BAs

Master the art of Requirements Analysis using Use Cases and enhance your User Acceptance Testing skills to ensure quality deliverables for today's Business Analysts and System Analysts.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Design comprehensive use case diagrams and write clear textual descriptions.

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Implement a robust User Acceptance Testing process to validate software functionality.

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Understand the strategic use of use cases in project scoping and requirements elicitation.

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Develop and execute thorough UAT test plans to ensure quality and performance.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 4 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Business Analysts
  • System Analysts
  • Requirements Engineers
  • Software Testers

Description

Use Cases are an industry best practice for defining, documenting, and analyzing functional requirements. A use case approach is a user-centered approach for developing a solution to your business needs. Unfortunately, methods for developing use cases vary substantially across the industry. What information belongs in a use case? How can a use case be utilized to capture all the desired functionality? Are use cases applicable to all projects? Is there a template for writing use cases that is considered best practice? If you've ever been involved in a project involving use cases, you've probably encountered some confusing answers to these questions. Learn practical answers to these questions from one of the pioneers in Object Oriented Analysis. We have been developing and sharing best practices in use cases since the early 1990s. This course provides a strong foundation in the mechanics of use case diagramming and writing textual descriptions of use cases. In this highly interactive workshop, you will learn how to enhance and refine your use case skills, how to involve your stakeholders in the use case process, and how to develop use cases that provide valuable information to the designers and testers. Use cases that meet the needs of designers can be too technical and too detailed for other stakeholders. Use cases that satisfy business users are usually not very helpful to designers and testers. How do you satisfy these two disparate interests? And how do you handle the details like business rules, data validations and user interface specifications? All too often the software products delivered to the business do not meet their expectations, especially with regard to the quality of the product. An effective User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process addresses this issue by confirming the functionality and performance of the product prior to its release. This workshop also looks at the business issues which drive the need for a fully functional UAT process and describes the components of such a process.  It is designed to help the Business Analyst (BA) to develop an understanding of their role, the process, and the deliverables associated with UAT.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Introduction

  1. Course objectives

  2. Understanding of business analysis

  3. Knowledge areas of BABOK® Guide

Module 2: Overview of Use Cases

  1. Purpose and value of a use case approach

  2. Use case terminology

  3. Introducing a use case approach

Module 3: Needs Assessment

  1. Purpose of Needs Assessment

  2. Needs Assessment and use cases

  3. Strategic goals and objectives

  4. Business process understanding

  5. Identifying actors and information

  6. Analyzing locations and operations

  7. Business use case diagrams

  8. Building business architecture

  9. Defining solution options

Module 4: Defining System Scope

  1. Product and project scope

  2. System vs. business actors

  3. Analyzing business process models

  4. Identifying candidate use cases

  5. Diagramming use cases

  6. Creating use case catalogs

Module 5: Evaluating, Prioritizing, and Packaging Use Cases

  1. Iterative nature and evaluating use cases

  2. Use case priority, risk, and complexity

  3. Dividing work between releases

  4. Packaging process

Module 6: Writing the Main Success Scenario

  1. Use case descriptions and goals

  2. Assumptions, pre-conditions, and triggers

  3. Main success scenario and post-conditions

  4. Best practices for writing use case descriptions

Module 7: Writing the Other Scenarios

  1. Scenarios and flows

  2. Guidelines for alternate and exception flows

Module 8: Process Modeling to Describe Use Case Flows

  1. UML® Activity Diagram Notation

  2. Developing an activity diagram

Module 9: Using Advanced Diagramming Techniques

  1. Commonality and Dependency Relationships

  2. Includes and Extends relationships

Module 10: Developing a Requirements Specification

  1. Requirements and use cases

  2. Common approaches to specifications

  3. Non-functional requirements

  4. User interface and data requirements

  5. Traceability

Module 11: Course Summary

  1. Wrap-up and finding more information

Module 12: Software Testing - the Basics

  1. Importance and stages of software testing

  2. Testing best practices

Module 13: Understanding the Tester’s Terminology

  1. Role and tasks in UAT

  2. Testing types and techniques for UAT

Module 14: The UAT Planning Process

  1. Importance of UAT planning

  2. Creating a UAT Test Plan

Module 15: UAT Test Coverage

  1. Requirements Traceability Matrix

  2. Setting testing scope

Module 16: Creating and Executing the UAT Test Cases

  1. Goals of UAT testing

  2. Steps for creating a UAT Test Case

Module 17: Verifying the Test Results

  1. Documenting UAT test results and the 'bug' lifecycle

Module 18: Testing Vendor-Supplied Applications

  1. Challenges of vendor-supplied application testing

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