Software Testing & Quality Assurance

• What is SDLC?
• Phases of SDLC
• Different SDLC models (Waterfall, Agile, )
• Advantages and disadvantages of SDLC
• Understanding requirement gathering
• Types of requirements (Functional, Non-Functional, Business)
• Analysis and design phase activities
• Deliverables of this phase

Real Project and Tools:

1. Requirement Gathering: JIRA, Trello, Asana, Confluence, Miro etc
2. Design: Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, Balsamiq etc

• What is software testing?
• Why do we need testing?
• Types of software testing (Functional, Non-Functional, )
• Acceptance testing
• What is STLC?
• STLC Phases
• Entry and Exit Criteria
• Deliverables of each phase

Real Project and Tools:

1. Test Management: Qase, PractiTest etc

• Understanding test planning
• Creating test plan
• Test Strategy
• Test effort estimation

 

• Test plan deliverables

Black Box Testing:

• What is black box testing?
• Techniques for black box testing (equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision table testing, )
• Writing test cases for black box testing
• Understanding test design and execution
• Types of test design techniques
• Test data preparation
• Test execution
• Deliverables of this phase

Real Project and Tools:

1. Test Plan: TestRail, Zephyr etc

• Understanding defect management
• Defect life cycle
• Types of defects
• Defect tracking tools
• Test closure activities
• Deliverables of this phase

Real Project and Tools:

1. Defect Management: JIRA, TestRail, BugZilla etc

 

• What is functional testing?
• Types of functional testing (unit testing, integration testing, system testing, acceptance testing, )
• Writing test cases for functional testing Non-Functional Testing:
• What is non-functional testing?

 

• Types of non-functional testing (performance testing, usability testing, security testing, )
• Writing test cases for non-functional testing

Regression Testing:

• What is regression testing?
• Techniques for regression testing (retest-all, selective, )
• Writing test cases for regression testing User Acceptance Testing:
• What is user acceptance testing?
• Techniques for user acceptance testing (alpha testing, beta testing, )
• Writing test cases for user acceptance testing

 

 

Exploratory Testing:

• What is exploratory testing?
• Techniques for exploratory testing
• Advantages and disadvantages of exploratory testing

Ad Hoc Testing:

• What is ad hoc testing?
• Techniques for ad hoc testing
• Advantages and disadvantages of ad hoc testing

Localization and Internationalization Testing:

• What is localization testing?
• Techniques for localization testing
• Writing test cases for localization testing

Accessibility Testing:

• What is accessibility testing?
• Techniques for accessibility testing

 

• Writing test cases for accessibility testing

 

Real Project: Web Application Testing

1. Introduction to GitHub

• Overview of version control and Git
• Explanation of GitHub and its benefits
• Setting up a GitHub account and basic profile information

1. Basic Git commands

• Initializing a repository
• Adding files to a repository
• Committing changes
• Checking status and history of commits
• Pushing changes to a remote repository
• GitHub workflow
• Forking a repository
• Cloning a repository
• Creating a branch
• Making and committing changes to a branch
• Creating a pull request
• Merging a pull request

1. GitHub features

• Issues and milestones
• Projects and boards

1. Best practices for using GitHub

• Writing clear commit messages
• Creating meaningful pull requests and issues

 

• Organizing repositories and branches
• Maintaining a healthy repository and avoiding common mistakes

1. Introduction to Python
   • Overview of Python and its features
   • Installing and setting up Python and an IDE (e.g. Anaconda, PyCharm)
2. Basics of Python Basic syntax and data types (e.g. variables, strings, integers)
   • Basic input/output (e.g. print, input)
   • Basic arithmetic and logical operations

• Conditional Statements
  • If statement
  • If-else statement
  • Nested if-else statement

1. Loops (60 minutes)
   • For loop
   • While loop
   • Nested loops
2. Lists and Tuples
   • Definition and creation of lists and tuples
   • Indexing and slicing
   • Basic operations on lists and tuples
3. Dictionaries
   • Definition and creation of dictionaries
   • Accessing and modifying values in dictionaries
   • Basic operations on dictionaries

• Sets
  • Definition and creation of sets

 

• Basic operations on sets

1. Functions
   • Definition and calling of functions
   • Parameters and arguments
   • Return statement
2. Modules
   • Importing modules
   • Built-in modules
   • Creating and importing custom modules
3. File Handling
   • Opening, reading, and writing to files
   • Closing files
   • File modes
4. Exceptions
   • Handling exceptions using try-except block
   • Multiple except blocks
   • Raising exceptions

1. Introduction to Selenium WebDriver
   • Overview of Selenium WebDriver and its features
   • Selenium WebDriver vs Selenium IDE vs Selenium Grid
2. Setting Up Selenium WebDriver Environment
   • Installing Selenium WebDriver
   • Configuring Selenium WebDriver with Python and an IDE (e.g. PyCharm)
   • Creating a basic Selenium WebDriver script

• Locating Web Elements
  • Understanding HTML and CSS

 

• Locating elements using XPath and CSS selectors
• Locating elements using other methods (e.g. name, ID)

1. Interacting with Web Elements
   • Clicking buttons and links
   • Typing text into text fields
   • Handling checkboxes and radio buttons
   • Selecting values from dropdown menus
2. Navigating Through Web Pages
   • Navigating to a page
   • Refreshing a page
   • Navigating forward and backward
   • Handling alerts and pop-ups

• Synchronization and Waits
  • Understanding synchronization and its importance in Selenium WebDriver
  • Implicit and explicit waits
  • sleep() and its drawbacks

1. Handling Frames and Windows
   • Switching between frames and windows
   • Interacting with elements inside frames and windows
2. Handling Cookies
   • Adding, deleting, and modifying cookies
   • Interacting with cookies

• Taking Screenshots
  • Capturing screenshots using Selenium WebDriver
  • Saving screenshots to a file

1. Handling Multiple Windows and Tabs
   • Handling multiple windows and tabs in Selenium WebDriver

 

• Best practices for handling multiple windows and tabs

1. Introduction to Test Automation
   • Overview of test automation
   • Advantages of test automation
2. Creating Test Suites
   • Creating a test suite
   • Grouping tests into a test suite
   • Running test suites

• Test Reporting
  • Generating test reports
  • Interpreting test results

1. Test Automation Best Practices
   • Writing maintainable and readable code
   • Selecting good test cases for automation
   • Avoiding common pitfalls of test automation
2. Data Driven Testing
   • Overview of data-driven testing
   • Reading data from files (e.g. Excel, CSV)
   • Creating and running data-driven tests

Cross-Browser Testing with Selenium WebDriver

1. Introduction to Cross-Browser Testing
   • Overview of cross-browser testing
   • Advantages of cross-browser testing
2. Configuring Browsers for Testing
   • Setting up browsers for testing
   • Configuring browsers for testing

• Cross-Browser Testing with Selenium WebDriver

 

• Writing scripts for cross-browser testing
• Running cross-browser tests

1. Handling Browser-specific Issues
   • Techniques for handling browser-specific issues
   • Best practices for cross-browser testing
2. Introduction to Frameworks
   • Overview of frameworks
   • Advantages of using frameworks
   • Page Object Model

1. Introduction to Database Testing
   • What is database testing?
   • Why is database testing important?
   • Types of database testing
2. Understanding Relational Databases
   • Basic concepts of a relational database
   • Tables, rows, columns, and relationships
   • Primary and foreign keys
   • Normalization

• SQL Fundamentals
  • Basic SQL syntax
  • Common SQL statements (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE)
  • Writing SQL queries to test databases

1. Test Data Management
   • Strategies for managing test data
   • Creating test data
   • Maintaining test data in databases

• Introduction to API testing: Definition, advantages, and why it
• RESTful web services: Overview of RESTful architecture, HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), and status
• Tools and frameworks: Introduction to popular tools for API testing such as Postman, SoapUI, and frameworks like
• Setting up the environment: Installing and configuring the required tools and
• Making API requests: Understanding how to construct API requests, including headers, parameters, and request
• Validating API responses: Checking for expected results, using assertions, and handling different response formats (JSON, XML).
• Error handling: Dealing with unexpected errors and

POST-MAN

• Why PostMan
• CRUD Operation
• POSTMAN Parameter
• POSTMAN Console
• POSTMAN Assertion

NewMAN

• Export JSON Project
• Generate API Test Report
• Execute test suite in command line

• What is
• Build a Basic Test plan and
• User defined
• Increase the
• JMeter

 

• JMeter
• JMeter Regular

1. Introduction to Security Testing
   • Definition of security testing
   • Importance of security testing
   • Types of security testing
2. Common Security Threats
   • Overview of common security threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

• OWASP Top Ten
  • Overview of the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Top Ten vulnerabilities
  • Explanation of each vulnerability and how to detect them

1. Security Testing Tools
   • Overview of security testing tools, including open-source and commercial tools
   • Tools for automated and manual security testing
2. Vulnerability Scanning
   • Overview of vulnerability scanning
   • Using vulnerability scanners to detect security vulnerabilities in web applications
3. Penetration Testing
   • Overview of penetration testing
   • Types of penetration testing
   • Conducting a basic penetration test

• Best Practices for Security Testing
  • Guidelines and best practices for effective security testing
  • Incorporating security testing into the development lifecycle