Testing History, Testing description, Need for testing, Defect description, principles of Testing, Quality Assurance and control, Scope, Occurrence of Testing, Constraints of Testing, Software Tester Roles, SDLC Overview, Life Cycle models, STLC Overview, AGILE Testing

Test Strategy and Planning, Customizing Test Process, Budgeting Overview, Scheduling, Risk and configuration management

Hands-on Exercise – Make planning to test a product and define test strategy for the same, Plan a dummy budget allocation

Test Scenarios, cases and Data, Test Case and Scenario Difference, Test Case creation for application, Traceability Matrix and Sample description

Hands-on Exercise – Create Test Cases for an application, Create Traceability Matrix, Perform sample testing

Dynamic Techniques:

Black-box or Specification-based techniques, Boundary Value Analysis, Decision Table Testing, Equivalence Partitioning

Experience-based techniques:

Error Guessing, Exploratory Testing

Static Techniques:

Importance of STLC reviews, Review Activities, Roles and Responsibilities during Review

Hands-on Exercise – Do a Black-box or Specification-based testing, Perform Boundary Value Analysis, Test using Decision Table, Make a team of at least two people and do Review Activities of STLC

Levels of Testing:

Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing

Types of Testing:

Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Database Testing, Load Testing, Performance Testing, Compatibility Testing, Security Testing, Volume Testing, Stress Testing, Usability testing, Internationalization Testing, Localization Testing

Hands-on Exercise – Perform User Acceptance Testing based on requirements spec

Overview on Build and Release, Release Notes, Pre QA Checklist, Entry and Exit criteria, Test Execution, Hands on

Hands-on Exercise – Write a typical Release Note, Make a QA Checklist

Defect Prevention, Defect Discovery, Defect Life Cycle, Severity and Priority, Overview on RCA, Hands on Identify and log Defects, Bugzilla Tool – Hands on

Hands-on Exercise – Identify log Defects, Use Bugzilla Tool to log a defect and apply different stages of a bug (open, fixed, close etc)

Test Status Reports, Test Closure Reports, Tester and Developer, Team Collaboration, Client Interaction, Onshore/Offshore Model, Mitigate current challenges

Hands-on Exercise – Write Test Status Report, Write a Test Closure Report

Overview on Metrics & Measurements, Test Metrics Benefits, Life Cycle of Metrics, Test Metrics types

Hands-on Exercise – Write Test Metrics

Need for Automation, Overview of Different Automation Tools – QTP and Selenium, Quality Center Overview, FAQs

Hands-on Exercise – Use an Automation Tool (QTP or Selenium or Quality Center)