Introduction

• Duties and roles
• Skill set
• Tools required and Methodologies
• Recommended reading

 
Visual Modeling Essentials (UML)

• Introduction to object technology
• Visual Modeling principles
• OO Concepts
• Use-case modeling
• Interaction diagrams
• Class diagrams
• Other UML diagrams
• UML 2.0

 
Business Modeling

• Introduction to Business Modeling
• Setting Activity goals
• Finding business actors and use cases
• Detailing business use cases
• Finding business workers and entities
• Detailing business workers and entities
• Defining automation requirements

RUP principles

• Best practices
• Navigating the RUP
• Disciplines and Related Concepts
• Phases and Iterations
• Implementing RUP

What You'll Learn :

What is UML and RUP and how to use Rational Tools for Modeling, Requirements Collection and Analysis, Testing and Defect/Change tracking.
Tools you will work with are :

1. Rational Requisite Pro
2. Rational XDE Tester
3. Rational Functional Tester
4. Rational ClearQuest

Rational RequisitePro

• Product introduction
• Planning your project
• Gathering, organizing, and documenting your requirements
• Managing requirements
• Communicating your requirements
• Summary and tips

Principles of Software Testing

• Software engineering practices
• RUP terminology and the testing discipline in RUP
• The mission of the test team
• Identifying the goal of test documentation
• Test ideas, test idea catalogs, and test matrices
• Test techniques and styles for functional testing
• Effective problem investigation and change request (defect) writing
• Status reporting on the extent of testing
• Verifying the test approach

Principles of Test Automation for GUI testing

• Getting started
• Introduction to Test Automation
• Testing Process Refinement
• Organize your success
• Invest Time in Planning
• How to design tests

 
Essentials of Rational XDE Tester & Rational Functional Tester

• Introduction to Rational XDE Tester
• Recording  a script
• Playing back a script and viewing results
• Extending scripts
• Test Object Maps and Object Recognition
• Web Testing with Rational XDE Tester & Rational Functional Tester

 
Principles of Defect & Change tracking with IBM Rational ClearQuest

• Introduction to Rational ClearQuest
• Principles of defect and change tracking
• Using Rational ClearQuest to track defects and change requests
• Analyzing the tracking results in ClearQuest ClearQuest Everywhere