Certified Software Testers Course
Intended Audience
The course is the foundation for other training in this series and is intended for:
- End-users participating in User Acceptance Testing
- Business System Analysts
- Project, Technical and Quality Assurance Managers
- Documentation Specialists
- Software Analysts, Designers and Developers
- Quality Assurance Designers and Testers participating in Product Release Testing
- Application Subject Matter Experts
The intended audience is anyone involved in any form of testing.
Prerequisites
The course participants are expected to have:
- General understanding of Business Principles (pertaining to their field of expertise)
- General knowledge and qualification in Information Technology
- Overall familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle
- Principle awareness of Traditional and Object Oriented approaches
- General comprehension of Quality Assurance
Course Objective
At the end of the course the students will acquire knowledge pertaining to:
- Software testing background (Why and How)
- Software testing rationale and definitions
- Quality Assurance and testing as a strategy
- Software Quality Control principles
- Software Testing Plan (High Level)
- Software Test Rules Definition (High Level)
- Software Test Descriptions (High Level)
- Traceability Model
- Testing in practice
- Testing Measurement (High Level)
- Software Quality Deployment (High Level)
- Test Procedures
- Defect Management
- Test Procedural Language (TPL)
- Agile / SCRUM principles (1 day extra for selected course implementation)
The course outline is as follows:
- About This Course i.e. this document
- Testing Fundamentals
- Testing Rationale (Why)
- Testing Strategy
- Software Quality Control
- Examination (60 minutes) – Closed Kit
- Traceability Model
- Testing In Practice
- How to Measure Quality
- Examination (60 minutes) – Closed Kit
- Software Quality Deployment
- Summary i.e. Review on all course subjects
- Software Development Life Cycle (“Waterfall”, Iterative / Incremental”, “Agile/SCRUM”)
- Workflows, Use Cases and Test Cases,
- QA Measurements
- Software Quality Assurance
- Practice Exercise – Test Process at the SDLC Stages
- Examination (60 minutes) – Closed Tester’s Kit
- What is Testing?
- Coverage Analysis
- Testing Methods
- Defect Management
- Test Procedural Language (TPL)
- TPL hands-on
- Introduction to Agile / SCRUM (1 day extra for selected course implementation)
