https://www.vskills.in/certification/certified-software-testing-professional

Course details

Why should I take Software Testing certification?
Software Testing is the backbone of any IT product, Services Company. Industry size is about USD$13 billion globally and is one of the biggest recruiters and job creators around the world. Software testing can be manual and automated. Vskills certification will focus on the different concepts of testing, automated testing necessary documentation and project management needs; and metrics for testing, automated testing and different tools for testing like load testing, cost driven training and GUI based testing. Some different test automation tools will also be introduced.

How will I benefit from Software Testing Certification?
A number of career options have evolved in the testing industry. It is looked as a good professional career for many software professionals. For example, from being test engineer one can move to senior test engineer, test lead to test manager; else can become Quality Assurance lead, Quality Asuurance Manager.

Introduction & Overview

• Introduction
• Overview
• History

Software Testing Topics

• Scope
• Functional vs. Non-Functional testing
• Defects and failures
• Finding faults early
• Compatibility
• Input combinations and preconditions
• Static vs. dynamic testing
• Software verification and validation
• The software testing team
• Software quality assurance (SQA)
• Testing Methods - The box approach

White Box Testing

• Introduction
• Types of white box testing
• Test coverage
• Hacking

Black box testing

• Specification-based testing
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Test design techniques
• Hacking
• Grey box testing

Unit Testing

• Overview
• Benefits
• Separation of interface from implementation
• Unit testing limitations
• Applications

Integration testing

• Purpose
• Limitations

System testing

• Testing the whole system
• Types of tests to include in system testing

Miscellaneous Testing Levels

• System integration testing
• Regression testing
• Acceptance testing
• Alpha testing
• Beta testing

Non-functional testing

• Software performance testing and load testing
• Stability testing
• Usability testing
• Security testing
• Internationalization and localization
• Destructive testing

The Testing Process

• Traditional CMMI or waterfall development model
• Capability Maturity Model Integration
• Waterfall model
• Agile or Extreme development model
• A Sample testing cycle

Automated testing

• Code-driven testing
• Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing
• What to test
• Framework approach in automation
• Defining boundaries between automation framework and a testing tool
• Testing tools
• Measurement in software testing

Testing Artifacts

• Test plan
• Traceability matrix
• Test case
• Test script
• Test suite
• Test data
• Test harness

Updated on 18 January, 2024