Software Testing For Beginners

This course is designed for beginners who wish to take their career towards software testing. This course will cover all the concepts used in software testing so that the individual attending the course gets the skills and knowledge needed from the view of testing particular software.
 

Course Outline
Overview of Testing

• Introduction to Software Testing
• Features of Software Testing
• Key Concepts
• Defects and failures
• Input combinations and Input preconditions
• Economics
• Roles
• Testing methods

Type of Testing

• Static vs. dynamic testing
• The box approach
• White-Box testing
• Black-box testing
• Visual testing
• Grey-box testing
• Testing levels
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• Component interface testing
• System testing
• Acceptance testing
• Installation testing
• Compatibility testing
• Smoke and sanity testing
• Regression testing
• Acceptance testing
• Alpha testing
• Beta testing
• Functional vs non-functional testing
• Destructive testing
• Software performance testing
• Usability testing
• Accessibility testing
• Security testing
• A/B testing
• Concurrent testing
• Conformance testing or type testing

Internationalisation and localisation

Testing process

Models

• Traditional waterfall development model
• Agile or Extreme development model
• Top-down and bottom-up

A sample testing cycle

• Practical example for testing software. A sample project will be prepared to explain the practical usage of testing with proper coding illustrations.

Automated testing

Testing tools

Measurement in software testing

Hierarchy of testing difficulty

Testing artifacts