Course Contents

Part 1

Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Control &CMM Levels.
Difference between Application/Project and Product.
Hierarchy of the Organisation.
Project life cycle - Process
Introduction of Software Testing.
Difference between Manual and Automation Testing?
Good Software Test Engineer Qualities.
Why we need to Testing?
Challenges of Software Test Engineers.
Overview of Automation Tools and its versions.
SDLC Phases
SDLC Models: V-Model,(Verification & Validation, Static and Dynamic Testing) Waterfall, Agile - Scrum. Configuration Management.
Test Methodlogies and Testing types/ levels

Test Life Cycle Phases
Test Plan and its purpose. Who will prepare the Testplans? When do we prepare the Test plan? Contents of the Test plan
Preparing Test Scenarios,Test Case &Test Scripts.
Black Box Testing Test Case designing techniques
Positive Testing and Negative Testing
High Level and Low level Testcases. Precautions while writing test cases. GUI Common Tesecases
Traceability Matrix
Difference between Error, Bug and Defect Bug / Defect Life Cycle
(Severity, Priority) level examples
Main contents of reporting Bugs/ Defects. Why software has Bugs?
Test data, Test Bed and Test set up Environment.
Case studies for Test Case Preparation.
What if there isn't enough time for thorough testing?

What is Architecture?
Types of Archetectures?
Difference between Client Server / Web based application
what type of testings conducted for Client Server / Web based applications?
Testing Types - Unit, Interface, Smoke, GUI, Usability, Integration, Adhoc, fuctionality, Recovery, Retest, Regression, Globalisation, Exploratory, System, End to End, Database, Browser Camapatibility, Performance, Load, Stress, Volume, Security, Sanity, Installation and Acceptance Testing.
Difference between Functionality and Non-Functionality Testing.
Checklists, Weekly status Reports, Test Closure , Status Reports & Release Notes.
Roles and Responsibilities of TM, TL & TE/TA