Lecture-1 Introduction to Software Testing
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·      Software Testing Principles and Concepts           

·      This skill category focuses on the ‘basics of software testing as represented by the vocabulary of testing,                  

·      Testing approaches,                       

·      Methods and techniques as well as the materials used by testers in performing their test activities.

·      Practical Exercise

  Lecture-2 Building the Software Testing Ecosystem
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·      The test ecosystem is comprised of all the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the testing of software.              

·      Managing the Test Project            

·      Software testing is a project with almost all the same attributes as a software development project.            

·      This category discusses project planning, project staffing, scheduling and budgeting, communicating, assigning and monitoring work and ensuring that changes to the project plan are incorporated into the test plan.           

·      Practical Exercise

  Lecture-3 Risk in the Software Development Life Cycle
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·      It is often stated that a primary goal of a software tester is to reduce the risk associated with the deployment of a software application system.                  

·      The very process of test planning is based on an understanding of the types and magnitudes of risk throughout the software application lifecycle.                  

·      This skill category explains the concept of risk which includes project, process, and product risk.                

·      Understanding risk is required in order to evaluate whether the controls are in place and working in the development processes and within the application under test.

·      Practical Exercise

  Lecture-4 Executing the Test Plan
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·      This skill category explores the skills testers need to plan tests, including the selection of techniques and methods to be used to validate the product against its approved requirements and design.                    

·      Testers must understand the development methods and environment to effectively plan for testing.           

·      Walk through, Checkpoint Reviews and Inspections                   

·      The importance of integrated quality control throughout the development life cycle cannot be understated.                  

·      Often testing is only described in terms of dynamic test case execution.            

·      In this section of the STBOK, an in-depth discussion about the static testing techniques of walk through, checkpoint reviews and inspections is given.

·      Practical Exercise

  Lecture-5 Designing Test Cases
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·      This section of the STBOK defines the procedures to identify individual test conditions, decompose the test conditions into individual test cases and create test scripts.              

·      The skill category covers identifying test conditions from specifications documents, test transaction types, Use Cases, and Agile User Stories.                       

·      Further detailed are the techniques to develop test cases from the test conditions using such white box techniques as branch condition and data flow.                 

·      Black box test cases designed based on techniques such as equivalence partitioning and all-pairs testing are explained in detail.

·      Practical Exercise

  Lecture-6 Executing the Tests
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·      Testing should commence when the project commences and conclude when the software is no longer in operation.              

·      This category focuses on the many skills needed to execute the tests from Acceptance Testing across the SDLC, Unit, Integration and System testing as well as User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and testing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software.

·      Practical Exercise

  Lecture-7 Measurement Test Status, Analysis and Reporting
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·      In this category the tester’s ability to develop testing status reports is discussed.

·      These reports should show the status of the testing based on the test plan.                     

·      Reporting should document what tests have been performed and the status of those tests.

·      The test reporting process is a process to collect data, analyze the data, supplement the data with metrics, graphs and charts and other pictorial representations which help the developers and users interpret that data.                      

·      The lessons learned from the test effort should be used to improve the next iteration of the test process.

·      Practical Exercise

  Lecture-8 Testing Specialized Technologies
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·      Testers require skills in their organization’s current technology, as well as a general understanding of the new information technology that might be acquired by their organization.                     

·      Testing new technology creates some unique challenges which would not be an issue once the new technology is fully assimilated.                 

·      There are many specialized technologies, new or otherwise, which require specific skills to test.                  

·      This skill category addresses specialized technologies of web application testing, mobile application testing, Cloud base applications, testing within an Agile framework, DevOps application testing, and the Internet of Things.  

·      Practical Exercise

  Lecture-9 Assignment
Assignment-1 
·      Testers Qualities

What qualities testers should have?
As a tester, what qualities do you have? Provide with examples to justify your qualities?
Describe what you would like to do in a new job as a Software Tester?
Why A Tester needs to interact with various IT departments?
·      Why Testing Is Important?

Why is Testing Important? Justify with few good examples?
What happen if you not test software properly? Provide few examples and problems occurred due to not testing enough?
How rigorous testing helps IT companies?
Why Testing is important in Software Industry?
What are the advantages of starting early testing in SDLC?
Can testing be 100%? if not then why?
Provide various justifications for separating software testing from software development job? Why not software developers should conduct complete testing rather than companies pay separately to software testers?
·      Different Types of Testing

What are the different types of Testing?
Explain each in not more than 5 sentences:
·      Unit Testing

·      Integration Testing

·      Alpha Testing

·      System Testing

·      Usability Testing

·      Cross Browser Testing

·      Multi-Platform Testing

·      Performance Testing

·      Security Testing

·      User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

·      Beta Testing

What is Functional Testing? List various testing which come under this category?
What is Non-Functional Testing? List various testing which come under this category?
How Acceptance testing is importance? Who does acceptance Testing? What we do in this testing?
List five key differences Smoke Testing Vs Sanity Testing?
Define Manual Vs Automated testing?
List as many differences as you can between white box testing and black box testing?
·      Test Cases

What is a Test Case?
List out level of Test Cases? What are fields of a Test case Template?
Write test cases for Gmail Login? Give at least 5 examples?
Design 3 positive Test cases and 3 negative test cases.
What problems you face in writing test cases?
What is called a good Test Case? What is a bad Test Case?
What are guidelines for writing Test Cases?
What is Test Data? Why is it important?
Develop Test cases for Flight Reservation Application?
(Use standard guidelines to write your test cases. Cover all sections provided in SRS).
·      Test Plan

what is Test plan? What are the Contents of a Test Plan? Describe each.
Write an example of a Test Plan?
Develop Test Plan for Flight Reservation System Application? Make sure you cover all the sections and it should look like professional document?
Assignment-2 
·       Requirement

What’s full form of SRS?
Why SRS is important in Manual Testing?
What is Use Cases?
Design 5 different Use Cases?
What is Non-functional Requirement in SRS?
Design a Use Case Diagram? Describe briefly.
·       Test Strategies

What is Test Strategies? Importance.
Discuss a Test Strategies on object-oriented software?
What are the different Test environment, infrastructure and tools?
·       Test Methodologies

What is Agile Methodology?
How Scrum Works? Describe each component.
What is Product Backlog? Design a Sample.
What are advantage and disadvantage Agile Scrum?
How Waterfall model work? Define each Phase.
Why Waterfall model is harmful?
·       Defect Management

What is software defect or bug?
List 10 different defects with example which you encountered in your previous projects?
What are the different causes of Defects i.e why defects occur?
Define Defect Life Cycle?
What is defect or bug report?
Have you developed bug report? If yes, then explain what are various sections did you include in your bug report?
How was defect management process implemented in your company?
Once QA found defect, what s/he does with that defect?
·       Test Effort Estimation

What is Test Effort Estimation?
Design a Test Effort Estimation?