Softwae Testing & Quality Assurance

• Introduction and Importance of Software Quality Assurance.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Waterfall and Agile Development.
• Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Software Testing Principles.
• Verification vs Validation.
• Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control.

• Test Planning. 
• Test Scenarios. 
• Test Case development.
• Understanding requirement and creating test scenario and test cases from requirements. 
• White box, grey box and black box testing. 
• Functional Testing and Non-functional Testing.
• Retesting & Regression Testing. 
• Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing.
• Retesting and Regression Testing. 
• Acceptance Testing.
• Boundary value analysis and Equivalent portioning for maintaining large test fields.
• Creating and maintaining Test Data.
• Bug Life Cycle, bug Priority & Severity, bug Reports.
• Test Management Tools. Why test management tools are important. 
• Bug Management Tools. Why bug management tools are important. 
• Bug Leakage and Bug Release. 
• Test Management (Agile Testing).

• Introduction of Automation Testing 
• Basics of automation testing – why, when and how to perform Automation Testing 
• Selenium IDE installation and developing test cases in Selenium IDE using record and play. 
• Writing test cases manual using selenium commands and setting different validation and assertion in selenium IDE. 
• Install and setup environment for selenium webdriver for Java (Manual). 
• Setting up environment for selenium webdriver using maven repository.
• Locating web element from web page and execute commands:
  • Working with ID 
  • Working with Name 
  • Working with cssSelector 
  • Working with xpath (absolute xpath and relative xpath)  
• Opening links or urls using selenium webdriver.
• Handling keyboard and mouse inputs in selenium webdriver. 
• Handling drop downs in selenium webdriver.
• How to handle date and date picker in selenium. 
• Handling proper test verifications to ensure the accuracy. 
• Working with waits: Implicit wait and Explicit wait. 
• Working with different frames in a webpage in selenium.
• Including TestNG framework to improve and organize the test cases. ncorporating property files for centralizing test data. 
• Generating reports to show the test result with execution time.
• Data Driven Testing (DDT) using selenium webdriver. 
• Using keyboard core values in selenium webdriver to execute test. 
• Scrolling, drag and drop, File uploading in selenium.
• Taking screenshots using selenium webdriver.

• Introduction to API. 
• HTTP requests for testing API. 
• Installing POSTMAN for testing API. 
• Working with collections and environments. 
• Centralize data set for multiple environments. 
• Creating different types of test cases for individual API. 
• Working with dynamic variables.
• Data Driven Testing using JSON and CSV file in POSTMAN. 
• Handling response data and using the response data as different types of variable. 
• How to import, export and run API tests in command line using newman. 
• Troubleshoot with postman console for tuning and correcting the test cases or API structure.

• A brief of performance testing.
• Install JMeter and setup the environment. 
• Getting familiar with Thread groups for creating a bunch of virtual users.
• Working with different requests to create load test. 
• Working with different types of listeners for result visibility.
• How to organize the complete test suit with sequence of website functions with using test data.
• How to create and run script for catching the sequence of API.

• Mobile application testing introduction.
• Different types of mobile application to test.
• Basic checklist for testing mobile applications.
• Checking responsiveness.
• How to apply hardware testing, Software testing, combine testing for mobile application testing.
• How to test mobile applications with different simulator.
• Understanding mobile application architecture for better understanding of app testing. 
• Using mobile command sections for more deep understanding if there’s any problem found in mobile application.

(Note: Practical assignment will be given for home practice, and an exam will be taken in the course.)