Code: SQA-026
Duration: 8 hours
Duration: 8 hours
Description
During the course, students will get an insight into the basics of software testing.Roadmap
- Generally accepted terms of software testing.
- Goals of software testing.
- Basic terms:
- Test object, test basis;
- Error/mistake, bug/defect/fault, failure;
- Verification vs validation.
- Cost of software defects;
- Testing as part of quality assurance area;
- 7 testing principles;
- Software development lifecycle;
- Software development lifecycle models:
- Waterfall;
- Iterative model;
- Spiral model.
- Advantages and disadvantages of different software development lifecycle models;
- Testing within different software development lifecycle models. Testing challenges within each of them;
- Project team. Place of tester within it;
- Levels of independence of software testing;
- Testing levels;
- Testing types;
- Software defect;
- Defect structure;
- Defect lifecycle;
- Classification of software defects;
- Portrait of software tester. The direction of software tester development.
Objectives
After completion of the course, students will:- Have a general idea about software testing;
- Have an idea about software development lifecycle models;
- Know main definitions in the area of software testing;
- Have an idea about defect management and expectations related to testing;
- Understand specifics of various types and levels of software testing;
- Know main vectors of software tester development.
