Manual Software Testing

Manual Testing Course

Theory (partly based on ISTQB – this will mold the intern for the ISTQB exam within 6-8 months)

Fundamentals of Testing

• What is software
• What is software testing
• Why is Testing Necessary?
• What are defects, bugs, incidents and failures and from where do they arise
• Seven principles of testing
• Overview of fundamental test process

Testing throughout the lifecycle

• How is software build
• Different Software development methodologies
• How is testing a part of SDLC and not a standalone process
• Software testing levels
• Software testing types
• Maintenance testing

Testing design techniques

• Why do we need techniques
• Categories of test design techniques
• Black box testing or Specification-based
• Equivalence partitioning (EP)
• Boundary Value Analysis (BVA)
• Decision tables
• State transition testing
• White box testing or Structure-based
• Test coverage
  • Types of coverage
    • Statement coverage
    • Decision coverage
• Experience-based testing
• Error guessing
• Exploratory testing

Practical (Hands-on curriculum preparing the intern to hit the ground running)

Requirement analysis

• Understand various types of documents
• How to read a requirements specification
• Mark testable and non-testable requirements
• Capture requirements on a spreadsheet

Designing scenarios

• What is a scenario
• Design scenarios based on the requirements captured
• Apply dynamic testing techniques
• Link scenarios to requirements

Write test cases

• What are test cases
• Standard of a test cases
• Write test cases of the scenarios designed
• Link test cases to scenarios to requirements

Defect management

• Identifying defects
• Logging defects on spread sheets with information needed by the developer
• Retesting fixed defects and closing them
• Retesting fixed defects and re-opening them

Miscellaneous

• Working with MS Office
• Software Solutions Landscapes
• Stake holders in Business
• SDLC Artefacts