House of Test Switzerland

Summary

Almost every day we can read news articles about software causing problems. Problems that have a significant impact on people and businesses. This risk-based testing workshop will give you the approaches and tools to discover and manage such risks so that your organization hopefully never makes the headlines.

English, German

In-person, on-site workshop

Target Group

Developers, Testers, Site Reliability Engineers, POs, and anyone involved in software development or operations interested in getting insights into risk-based testing and risk management.

Course duration:

1 day

Max participants:

You will learn

What we understand by risk.

Tools to help us identify risks.

How risk-based testing can help in your testing approach.

How to find the root cause of risks.

Different types of risk and their impact.

How to manage and reduce risk through testing and other measures.

Your Guide

Florian Sommerfeldt is a test engineer with experience in the domains of e-commerce, banking, taxation, security and public transport. In these domains he has worked as a test lead, project manager, software developer and scrum master. He enjoys exploring complex systems and domains to discover the unknown. Besides his work for House of Test, he is a lecturer at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches students about risk-based testing in the CAS Software Testing.

Florian Sommerfeldt

Course content

What is a risk?

We are going to talk a lot about risks in this workshop. So it is important to have a common understanding of what risks are.

How risk-based testing can help us

We will take a look at how our knowledge of risks can drive our testing to make it as valuable and efficient as possible.

Different types of risk and their impact

When we talk about risk, we can focus on the software under test. But there are many other sources of risk outside the software. We will take a closer look at these as well.

How we can identify risks

There are many tools that can help to identify risks. We will learn not only how to use some of these tools, but also in what context they add the most value.

How to find the root cause of risks

Every risk has a cause. We will learn different tools to find it, so that we can reduce the risk as much as possible.

How we can reduce and manage risks

Now that we've identified certain risks, what's next? We will learn about tools and approaches that can help us manage and reduce them. While some approaches focus on testing, others can be applied to project management, software development and operations.