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SQA, Test Automation & SDET · Course #068

Test Planning & Risk-Based Testing

From the first exercise, Test Planning & Risk-Based Testing treats quality as an engineering and communication discipline. Learners practise how to focus test effort on product risks and create adaptable plans that remain useful as evidence and context change, beginning with test planning as a decision process and progressing through product versus project risk and stakeholder perspectives to risk identification workshops and evidence sources. Learners facilitate risk identification, assess likelihood and impact, select mitigation and test approaches, define objectives and criteria, estimate effort and update priorities through monitoring and stakeholder review. The work is reviewed for clarity, repeatability and relevance to real delivery constraints. The course replaces static plan documents with transparent decision logic connecting risk, scope, coverage and residual uncertainty.

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Overview

From the first exercise, Test Planning & Risk-Based Testing treats quality as an engineering and communication discipline. Learners practise how to focus test effort on product risks and create adaptable plans that remain useful as evidence and context change, beginning with test planning as a decision process and progressing through product versus project risk and stakeholder perspectives to risk identification workshops and evidence sources. Learners facilitate risk identification, assess likelihood and impact, select mitigation and test approaches, define objectives and criteria, estimate effort and update priorities through monitoring and stakeholder review. The work is reviewed for clarity, repeatability and relevance to real delivery constraints. The course replaces static plan documents with transparent decision logic connecting risk, scope, coverage and residual uncertainty.

Course Highlights

Collaborative product-risk analysis

Risk-led test prioritisation

Adaptive test-plan design

Objectives and exit criteria

Estimation and resource trade-offs

Modules & Curriculum

Test planning as a decision process

Product versus project risk and stakeholder perspectives

Risk identification workshops and evidence sources

Risk assessment: likelihood, impact and quality characteristics

Choosing test approaches and mitigation activities

Scope, prioritisation and coverage rationale

Estimates, resources, environments and dependencies

Objectives, entry, exit and suspension criteria; monitoring risk, progress and changing context

Plan review and residual-risk communication

Learning Outcomes

  • Facilitate identification of product and project risks.
  • Assess risk using likelihood, impact and contextual factors.
  • Select test activities proportionate to each risk level.
  • Create an adaptable plan covering scope, approach and resources.
  • Define measurable objectives, entry and exit criteria.

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Plan testing around product risk and explain what the evidence still cannot prove.

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