Software Testing Fundamentals

Course outline

1. 01. What is software testing?

   • Why Do We Test Software?
   • The Cost of Bugs
   • QA Roles and Responsibilities
   • Manual vs Automation Testing
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2. 02. SDLC and STLC

   • Software Development Lifecycle
   • Software Testing Lifecycle
   • Agile vs Waterfall Testing
   • Testing in CI/CD Pipelines
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3. 03. Types of testing

   • Functional vs Non-Functional Testing
   • Smoke, Sanity, and Regression Testing
   • Integration and System Testing
   • UAT, Alpha, and Beta Testing
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4. 04. Test design techniques

   • Equivalence Partitioning
   • Boundary Value Analysis
   • Decision Table Testing
   • State Transition Testing
   • Error Guessing and Exploratory Heuristics
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5. 05. Bug lifecycle and reporting

   • What Is a Bug?
   • Bug Lifecycle and Statuses
   • Writing Effective Bug Reports
   • Bug Severity vs Priority
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6. 06. Test case writing

   • What Makes a Good Test Case?
   • Test Case Templates and Formats
   • Positive, Negative, and Edge Cases
   • Traceability Matrix Basics
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7. 07. Exploratory testing

   • What Is Exploratory Testing?
   • Session-Based Test Management
   • Exploratory Testing Heuristics and Charters
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8. 08. Your first day as a QA engineer

   • What to Expect on Day One
   • Understanding the Codebase and Product
   • Working With Developers Effectively
   • Building Your QA Career Path
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