Overview / Description: This training introducing you to the basics of software testing to advanced topics like Software configuration management, creating a test plan, test estimations etc. If you are new to the IT field, want to increase your software testing knowledge, and want to pursue a career in Testing or if you want to make a career move from a different technology, this course is just for you.

Detailed Course Content :

Chapter 01: Basics of QA

• 1.1 How to become a true and valued Software Testing Professional
• 1.2 Understand the fundamentals of Testing and Quality Assurance
• 1.3 Understand the basic concepts of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• 1.4 High level details into Requirements, Design, Build phases
• 1.5 What are Functional Requirements Document, Technical Requirement Documents
• 1.6 Roles of a Business Analyst(BA), Technical Architect, Developer, Tester
• 1.7 Role of an IT department within any organization or any business model
• 1.8 Understand various SDLC models
• 1.9 Waterfall Model, Iterative Model, V Model, Spiral Model
• 1.10 Performing parallel software testing/STLC along with SDLC
• 1.11 Rapid Application Development, Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming
• 1.12 How to write a Business Requirement Document (BRD)?
• 1.13 How to write a Functional Requirement Document (FRD)?
• 1.14 How to write a System Requirement Specification (SRS)?
• 1.15 Intro to Traceability Matrix
• 1.16 As-Is and To-Be architecture diagrams
• 1.17 How to write a Use Case Document?
• 1.18 How to write a Use Case Diagram?
• 1.19 Understanding the concept of Use Cases
• 1.20 Defining a system architecture at high level
• 1.21 Creating a system process
• 1.22 Further discussions on naming conventions
• 1.23 Importance of Domain/Functional knowledge in Software Testing
• 1.24 How to write test cases from Use Case Document?
• 1.25 Importance of test case coverage
• 1.26 Importance of writing detailed test steps for every test case
• 1.27 Do we write test cases before we perform testing, everytime?

Chapter 02: JIRA Basics

2.1 Challenges in the current manual testing model

• 2.2 Defect Life Cycle
• 2.3 What is JIRA?
• 2.4 Why is JIRA needed?
• 2.5 What is the importance of JIRA?
• 2.6 How to install JIRA?
• 2.7 What are the features of JIRA?
• 2.8 How to create a JIRA project
• 2.9 Adding Users to our JIRA Account
• 2.10 Importance of Defect Life Cycle and understanding the various stages or states of a defect
• 2.11 Converting a Defect Life Cycle into JIRA workflow for a project
• 2.12 Adding Issues/Bugs to the JIRA project
• 2.13 Attaching screenshots to the Bugs in JIRA
• 2.14 Assigning, closing, adding comments, effort etc to the JIRA bugs
• 2.15 Importance of JIRA dashboard for a quick view
• 2.16 Classifying defects into Critical, Major, Minor etc
• 2.17 Basics of Regression Testing. What is Regression Testing?
• 2.18 What are software release cycles?
• 2.19 What is Test Case Management?
• 2.20 What are the different phases in Test Case Management? Writing, Planning, Executing, Reporting, Maintaining
• 2.21 How to customize JIRA project to handle Test Cases?
• 2.22 Working with Tasks and Sub-Tasks to simulate Test Cases in JIRA?
• 2.23 Cloning a JIRA sub-task to create an issue
• 2.24 How to create a new Work Flow in JIRA?
• 2.25 How to customize a JIRA Workflow by adding new states and transitions? Why is software test effort estimation important?
• 2.26 What are the different factors in estimating software testing effort?
• 2.27 What is an FTE, Contractor, CTC, per hour cost, person months of effort etc?
• 2.28 Formula for software testing effort estimation?
• 2.29 How does software testing effort improve with every release?
• 2.30 Test automation efficiency over manual testing
• 2.31 Differences in estimation for manual testing and automation testing?
• 2.32 How to create a new issue type in JIRA for Test Cases?
• 2.33 What are JIRA Dashboards?
• 2.34 Creating and customizing JIRA Dashboard
• 2.35 Understanding JIRA filters. Creating and Saving JIRA Filters. Adding Filters to dashboards

Chapter 03: QA Advanced Concepts

3.1 Why is software test effort estimation important?

• 3.2 What are the different factors in estimating software testing effort?
• 3.3 How to classify a test case and identify the effort taken for it?
• 3.4 What is an FTE, Contractor, CTC, per hour cost, person months of effort etc?
• 3.5 Formula for software testing effort estimation?
• 3.6 How does software testing effort improve with every release?
• 3.7 Test automation efficiency over manual testing
• 3.8 Differences in estimation for manual testing and automation testing? Configuration Elements
• 3.9 What are the various types of Software Testing?
• 3.10 A sample Test Plan template
• 3.11 A sample Traceability matrix template
• 3.12 Preparing Your Resume
• 3.13 Applying for jobs
• 3.14 Attending interviews
• 3.15 How to write Software Test Cases?

Chapter 04: Bugzilla

4.1 How to Install Bugzilla?

• 4.2 How to Install Perl (StrawberryPerl)?
• 4.3 How to Install MySQL?
• 4.4 How to Install Apache?
• 4.5 How to run MySQL commands?
• 4.6 Bugzilla Administrations
• 4.7 Adding Products, Components, Version in Bugzilla