Zephyr Test Management Training That Teaches You How To Squeeze Every Last Bit Of Functionality Out Of Your Jira Test Management Solutions

Module#1 – Getting Started

An introduction to your solution and setting up the prerequisites

In this module we’ll take you through an initial tour of the solution you've implemented. We’ll talk through the main architecture, the key components and create our first test cases, cycles and plans. We’ll also walk you through some of the core user interface concepts and examine some workflow strategies you can employ.

Module#2 – Admin and Configuration

Configuring and administering your solution

You can work with various different workflow strategies and customise fields, screens and workflow. In this module we show you how to setup all of this and explain the parts of your configuration that will have an impact on how you and your team use your solution.

Module #3 – Test Cases in detail

A detailed look at how to create and manage your test cases

This is the core of any solution. Again though, there’s a lot of flexibility you can employ in the way you work with your test cases. We’ll take you through the different types of test cases and start looking at the different types of test cases you can work with.

Module #4 – Test Cycles and Plans in detail

Organising test cases into cycles and plans ready for test execution

In order to execute test cases you’ll need to pull test cases into a test cycle or plan. We’ll demonstrate ways in which you can organise and run your test cycles. We’ll see how you can report on test cycle progress and how you can group test cycles into Test Plans for clearer reporting and organisation of your test efforts.

Module #5 – Strategies for Organising Tests

Strategies for organising test cases and managing your test efforts

As your repository of test cases grows it’s easy for everything to become disorganised very quickly. If you keep things organised then it’s easier to make sure people aren’t wasting time rewriting test cases that have already been written. Zephyr scales comes with numerous features that will help you tag, track and manage everything in an organised manner.

Module #6 – Reporting and Analysis

Generating reports and creating dashboards

One of the main reasons we track all of our testing efforts in a test management tool is that we can report on progress and status. All solutions come with reports that cover Execution and Traceability. We’ll show you how to generate these reports and how to get the best of the reporting engine. We’ll also walk you through the numerous Dashboards and Gadgets that can be used to track progress.

Module #7 – The REST Api

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You may think you don’t have any use for the REST Api. However, if you want to automate tasks and perhaps feed data into external reporting tools then this Api is invaluable. For those that aren’t familiar with REST we’ll take you through the basics and we’ll demonstrate some practical real world examples. For those that already know REST we’ll show you how to get everything you need to know to get the most out of this powerful addition to your test management solution.

Module #8 – BDD

What is BDD and how to work with BDD

There’s a lot more to most solutions than just writing and running manual tests. It’s here that we start to look at the comprehensive built in BDD functionality. Write your test cases in Gherkin syntax and use inbuilt tools to distribute those Gherkin files to automation engineers. For those that aren’t familiar with BDD we’ll cover the basics too.

Module #9 – Test Automation

How to build automation into your setup

Test management solutions plug-in to a range of different automation tools. It accepts test results from many different unit test frameworks. It’s here that we’ll walk you through building a test automation systems and continuous test capability. We’ll provide a ready built Selenium framework and take you through plugging all the components together to build a ready to go continuous test system.

Module #10 – Advanced (7 concepts)

Advanced test case management concepts

There’s far more to test management than many realise. In this module we’ll take you through concepts like version control, test allocation, parameterisation, and much more. In many ways this is where the rubber meets the road. It’s where we show you how to implement and use these skills in your projects.

We’ll setup your own dedicated SaaS based training environment for the duration of the training course. This gives your team the freedom to experiment and, of course, learn from their mistakes. Experiments and mistakes they can feel totally at home making in their own training setup. No concerns about making a mess of your live production environments.

Any team that has, or is about to implement a test management solution. For teams that are looking for real hard core training that focuses on implementation in the real world. It's not worth reaching out to us if you just want some boring regurgitation of the products user guide.

As part of the 'Professional' package we'll hold 2 x 1 hour discovery sessions with key stakeholders in your team. In those sessions we'll work through and plan out the additional bespoke content you need for your online course. We'll then go away and create the first draft of those modules along with the first version of the recorded module videos. You'll review those modules and we'll make one set of revisions (to both the written content and the video).

The training platform we employ allows us to track progress of each course member. If you need to track progress we can provide daily or weekly reports to show progress. We also find that sending progress reports to all the course members helps build a sense of team competition and momentum.