Nothing has a greater influence on the project teams ability to ensure the stakeholder's satisfaction with the software, than the availability of a clear specification of what the stakeholders expectations are.
With or without a good enough set of requirements specifications, test cases are one artifact that helps to reflect the expectations of the stakeholders, enabling those expectations to be verified and validated.

The session will include a lab to explore the Test planning and Test case development process as advocated by Rational Unified Process:

Ameeta Roy holds an M.S. in Information Systems and Applications. She has 13 + years of experience in the IT industry spanning a variety of assignments covering both the business and technical aspects of the entire software development life cycle both for products and projects. Her areas of expertise include Rational Unified Process, Requirements Management, Object Oriented Architecture and design and Project management. In the last four years she has focussed on providing mentoring and consulting to Rational customers in architecting, designing and developing their enterprise applications according to Industry strength best practices and in the implementation of Rational tools and processes.