Secure the software supply chain and dependencies within pre-deployment test automation.
Designing Strategies to Automate Software Testing Before Deployment
A senior-level treatment of pre-deployment test automation, focused on what changes outcomes.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Technical debt in pre-deployment test automation is borrowed against future delivery capacity, at compound interest. The documentation for this aspect of technology and systems delivery is accurate only until the next release. The programme suits teams tackling this strand of technology and systems delivery together as readily as individuals attending alone. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about pre-deployment test automation. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in this area of technology and systems delivery rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The version of this aspect of technology and systems delivery described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Applied research in technology and systems delivery consistently shows that early structure around pre-deployment test automation reduces downstream rework. It treats this part of technology and systems delivery as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to the wider technology and systems delivery agenda that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Measure delivery and reliability of pre-deployment test automation with indicators teams trust.
Select indicators that show whether pre-deployment test automation is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
Design the architecture of pre-deployment test automation around its failure modes, not only its happy path.
Design a practical operating method for pre-deployment test automation that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Integrate pre-deployment test automation into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Apply access control and least privilege throughout pre-deployment test automation.
Who Should Attend
Managers in small and medium organisations who own pre-deployment test automation alongside other duties.
Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in pre-deployment test automation.
Vendor managers overseeing suppliers involved in pre-deployment test automation.
IT governance and audit staff reviewing pre-deployment test automation.
Project managers delivering changes to pre-deployment test automation.
IT managers and service owners responsible for pre-deployment test automation.
Course Modules
Pre-deployment test automation: incident response and severity
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support pre-deployment test automation
- Configure alerting on pre-deployment test automation that reflects what users experience.
- Anticipate the objections pre-deployment test automation will raise and prepare the answers.
- State the availability and recovery objectives for pre-deployment test automation as numbers.
- Identify the single points of failure in pre-deployment test automation.
Session 2The hard cases in pre-deployment test automation and how to reason about them
- Assess the exit route from any cloud or vendor dependency in pre-deployment test automation.
- Build the internal briefing that explains pre-deployment test automation to those affected.
- Review access rights on pre-deployment test automation and remove what is no longer needed.
- Confirm every release of pre-deployment test automation can be rolled back within a defined time.
Pre-deployment test automation: documentation, support and handover
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making releases of pre-deployment test automation routine instead of risky
- Run a load test on pre-deployment test automation at expected peak plus a margin.
- Record the technical debt in pre-deployment test automation and schedule repayment.
- Prepare the summary of pre-deployment test automation that senior management will read.
- Set delivery and reliability indicators for pre-deployment test automation the team trusts.
Session 2Proving the backup of pre-deployment test automation by restoring it
- Restore a backup of pre-deployment test automation in a test environment and time it.
- Name a single owner for each element of pre-deployment test automation.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on pre-deployment test automation.
- Arrange the handover of pre-deployment test automation so capability survives staff changes.
Pre-deployment test automation: monitoring, alerting and observability
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Dependencies and supply chain risk in pre-deployment test automation
- Confirm data retention and deletion rules applied within pre-deployment test automation.
- Document the runbook for pre-deployment test automation to the level a new engineer could use.
- Compare the cost of pre-deployment test automation with the cost of its absence.
- Verify six months later that changes to pre-deployment test automation have held.
Session 2Designing pre-deployment test automation around how it will fail
- Confirm that contractual obligations around pre-deployment test automation are understood.
- Check that records of pre-deployment test automation answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about pre-deployment test automation.
- Test the procedure for pre-deployment test automation against a realistic scenario.
Pre-deployment test automation: backup, recovery and continuity
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making pre-deployment test automation work when resources are constrained
- Review logging on pre-deployment test automation for coverage and retention.
- Identify single points of dependency in pre-deployment test automation and reduce them.
- Set out how exceptions to pre-deployment test automation are requested and approved.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether pre-deployment test automation is improving.
Session 2Sizing capacity for pre-deployment test automation on measured growth
- Define incident severity levels for pre-deployment test automation and the response each triggers.
- Apply change control to pre-deployment test automation including emergency changes.
- Measure current load on pre-deployment test automation and project it forward twelve months.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of pre-deployment test automation current.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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