The following topics will be covered in this two-hour lecture:

• Lifecycle testing–relationship of testing to development, including
• different models, verification and validation, and types of testing
• Test levels–system, acceptance, unit, and integration testing
• Static testing–reviews, inspections, and static analysis tools
• Test management–team organization, key roles and responsibilities, test approach and planning, configuration management, defect classification and tracking, test reporting
• Testing tools–selection, benefits, risks, and classification

Mark Bentsen has been leading cross-enterprise collaboration in the DFW area among Software Quality practitioners for the past seven years. Gathering corporately on a quarterly basis and on field trips to one another’s work places, the QA Trailblazers are pushing each other to expand the capabilities of the modern software testing organization. He is the QA Manager of ARGO data, a software development company providing mission-critical and analytical solutions for financial services and healthcare. Mark is a certified CTAL-Full, CSTE, PMP, and ASQ CMQ/OE.