Prescription:SI300 Systems Implementation

Aim of Module To provide students with practical experience in conducting system and acceptance testing.

Credits 7

Knowledge Assumed From 70 student learning hours

Prescription Expiry Date Nov 2002


Level and Assessment Schedule
TopicsHighest
Skill Level
Suggested
Assessment
Percentage
1 System Testing P 50
2 Acceptance P 35
3 Installation test design P 15

100

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The Student Will
P1Design and conduct a system test
P2Design and conduct a full acceptance test
P3Design installation tests for a simple system to be run by a user or a user's representative.

CONTENT

1  System Testing
> Use of a project planning tool for designing the system test plan.
> Consideration of a full list of factors/categories when constructing system test cases.
> Conducting function and performance tests on an integrated group of previously tested modules.
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2  Acceptance
> Development of different approaches, eg benchmark, pilot, parallel, operation testing, for acceptance testing.
> Completion of user and operations documentation, a training plan and CBT module for the acceptance test.
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3  Installation test design
> Checks required for installation tests.
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Note
TEACHING/LEARNING METHODS
- Lectures
- Problem-based learning related to the development of strategies for testing and implementing with different scenarios.
- Practical experience at doing a system test and an acceptance test as an analyst and a client.
- Practical experience at writing documentation for both users' and operations' departments.
- Practical experience at writing a CBT for the user or for operations.
LEARNING RESOURCES
> Textbooks and recommended Journal articles.
> Pre-written and pre-tested modules in a suite.
> Suitable computer resources to support the testing environment, eg. skeleton batch files or JCL for running the tests.
> Suitable packages for writing documentation and training modules on CBT.