Principles of Software Testing
Develop software testing skills in this hands-on lab course.
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Develop software testing skills in this hands-on lab course.
What you’ll be able to do — competencies
- Describe the tester’s role in software development, the skills expected of a tester, and areas of specialization within the field
- Evaluate a subsection of software at the bug or feature level, by searching for the most serious or common issues
- Enumerate common classes of bugs according to why the bugs may be a problem
- Write an issue report that provides the minimal actionable data necessary to reproduce a bug, prioritizes an issue correctly, and utilizes the terminology and metadata of the project’s bug tracking system
- Perform regression testing to ensure the original issue is fixed and new issues of equal or greater severity have not been introduced into the code
Course description
This course introduces you to the field of software testing through discussion of the tester’s role in the product cycle and hands-on labs that give you an opportunity to develop software–testing skills. This course covers how testers find and break down software problems, identify bugs, determine types of bugs, report bugs and perform regression testing. This hands-on class gives you an opportunity to understand and try out a software tester’s job.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with the Windows operating system
Syllabus
Session 1 Topics
- Introduction to course, room and building
- Professional lifecycle of the tester
- Computer and test skills that translate well in the job interview and prepare for work in the software industry
Session 1 Assignments
- Lab
Session 2 Topics
- Breaking down a problem (and think like a tester)
- The test vernacular
- Describe the most basic strategies to test any code, feature, software or software environment
- Testing in the modern software development environment
Session 2 Assignments
- Read chapters 1–4
- Lab
- Quiz
Session 3 Topics
- Test planning
- Using test cases to find bugs
- Types of Bugs
- Coding error
- Design issue
- Requirements issue
- Documentation/code mismatch
- Specification/code mismatch
- Feature request
- Environmental condition
Session 3 Assignments
- Read chapter 6
- Quiz
Session 4 Topics
- Communicate like a tester
- Writing good bug reports
- Finding and reporting variations of bugs
- Communicating test information and advocating for the user
Session 4 Assignments
- Read chapter 5
- Lab
- Quiz
Session 5 Topics
- Shipping quality software
- Defects and the product lifecycle
- Agile vs. Waterfall testing
- Shipping the project
Session 5 Assignments
- Read chapter 10
- Lab
- Quiz
Session 6 Topics
- Introduction to TFS
- When and what to automate
Session 6 Assignments
- Lab
Session 7 Topics
- TFS continued
- Utilizing product bugs to write and improve automated tests
Session 7 Assignments
- Lab
- Quiz
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