Free Online Software Testing Course

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Hello friends, as you all know, we always strive to give back the knowledge that we gain from our experiences to the testing fraternity. To extend the same philosophy, we are coming up with a more structured curriculum in the form of a Software testing course.

It is going to include everything there is to know for you to become a perfect Software Tester. This software testing QA training course is designed by working professionals in a way that, over the course of 40+ hours it will progress from introducing you to the basics of software testing to advanced topics like Software configuration management, creating a test plan, test estimations etc. along with introduction and familiarity with Automation testing and tools like QTP and QC.

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What You Will Learn:

Who is this QA Software Testing Training Course for?

This software testing course is the perfect opportunity for all those who are looking for Software Testing (basics + advanced) training. If you are new to the IT field, want to increase your software testing knowledge, and want to pursue a career in Testing or if you want to make a career move from a different technology, this course is just for you. See course details below.

In this course, we will teach you the most practical things required for you to get and survive a software testing job.

  • If you are a just college pass out, this is EXACTLY what you are looking for to open the doors for your dream career
  • If you are an experienced professional from ANY other field but wanted to be in IT, this course will help you make this switch smoothly
  • If you are an experienced testing professional, you will be amazed at the new things and advanced tactics you will learn to work efficiently and smartly in this field.

The Online QA Testing Course Benefits:

  1. Syllabus: We came up with a unique list of topics that will help you gradually work your way into the testing world. It not just includes the traditional testing methodologies but will give you a glimpse of the ways of testing that are coming up.
  2. Interactive: It is going to be completely interactive. Our aim is to make each class feel like a brainstorming session.
  3. Practice sessions: With each topic, we will give you assignments in a way that you will get to apply the theory you learned immediately.
  4. Communication improvement: We believe that a tester’s expertise should have a reach that is beyond the technical knowledge. Through this software testing course, we want to train you on how to be an over IT professional and not just a tester. Your verbal and written communication skills are going to be vastly improved through this course because we are going to interact on a regular basis.
  5. Resume Support and Interview preparation: We will review your resume and let you know how you can make it more effective. We will not just give you a list of interview questions, we will go over them with you and make you job ready.
  6. Support: Our Team is going to be available to you via email or the website for you to reach out to us
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Course Content

Software Testing Help – Manual + Automation Basics Class – Training Plan

Week 1 – Topics

  • SDLC
  • V model
  • STLC
  • Different Kinds of testing
  • Test Planning

Week 2 – Topics

  • Test documentation
  • Test Environment set up
  • Test data
  • Test cases
  • Entire Flow/Test Execution

Week 3 – Topics

  • Test Reporting – Metrics
  • Defects
  • Traceability Matrix
  • UAT
  • Change Management and other miscellaneous topics

Week 4 – Topics

  • GUI testing
  • Testing stand-alone applications
  • Automation introduction
  • Test Management tools
  • Other automation topics – buffer day for automation concepts

Week 5 – Topics

  • How to Prepare a Professional Resume
  • How to Crack Software Testing Interview
  • Individual resume help, mock interviews and certification guidance.
  • Also if we could not complete anything in the four weeks- we will catch up here.

Why Enroll with SoftwareTestingHelp?

  • Course training by experienced working professionals who are passionate about software testing
  • Instructor-led LIVE training sessions
  • Course content designed by considering current software testing technology and the job market
  • Practical assignments at the end of every session
  • A practical learning experience with live project work and examples
  • The individual mock interview session
  • Job placement assistance with job alerts until you get your first job
  • Free eBooks and loads of software testing study material
  • Video recordings available to revise training
  • Assistance for selecting the best certification program based on your experience and educational background
  • Assistance for passing the ISTQB certification with our premium ISTQB question bank
  • Course completion certificate (on request)
  • All-time support for your questions
  • Lifetime enrollment – Pay a one-time fee and access video training sessions as many times as you want. (no need to worry about missing any live session)

Bonuses:

  • Our premium Software Testing Career Package eBook valued $15, yours for free.
  • ISTQB Premium study material valued more than $35, yours for free
  • Resume review and assistance to prepare a professional resume

About the Trainer:

Swati Seela will be facilitating these sessions. She is a computer science Engineering graduate with more than 9 years of QA experience. She is CSTE and CSQA certified and also an expert in many automation tools including QTP and QC. Swati will be conducting this online course from Bakersfield, California, USA.

FREE Demo Sessions:
Try a free demo session to see for yourself the quality of this software testing training course that is offered at an unbelievable price.

Demo sessions on – Introduction to Test Planning and Day 1 of the course.
=> Click here for FREE Demo Sessions

Why Only Limited Seats?
We will be letting limited people in on the batch. We want to make sure we are providing personal attention to each student in order to make you a perfect software tester.

Live training sessions will be conducted using toToTraining online training software. You don't need an account. We will send an invitation to join the live sessions.

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Free Software Testing Training on a Real Time Live Project:

We are very excited to present this next series of software testing training free tutorials. We are going to simulate an end to end real-time software project going over each and every phase in detail with a special emphasis on QA training processes, phases, roles & responsibilities, deliverables etc. In short be ready for a short online software testing course.

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Important note: The below free tutorials are useful to get started but if you are interested in best online LIVE Software testing training course from the experts, please check this page.

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=> Here is the list of all tutorials in this free Live Project QA training series:

  • Day 1:Live Project introduction
  • Day 2:Review SRS Document and Create Test Scenarios
  • Day 3:How to Write a Test Plan Document from Scratch
  • Day 4:Writing Test Cases from SRS Document
  • Day 5:Test Execution
  • Day 6:Bug Tracking, Test Metrics, and Test Sign off

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Why this Free QA Training?

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We get many queries from our readers to share our experience on the exact software testing process followed by the software testing teams. So we decided to document this complete STLC with the help of a sample live application which is available to test on the Internet.

We will be using this live project for our software testing training series. We strongly recommend you to closely follow this series as it is going to be a crash course to learn and implement testing practices on a live application.

What You Will Learn:

Software Testing Training on Live Project – What is it?

Before we go any further, let me take a moment to explain what this software testing course series is all about and how it is going to take shape as we move forward.

We picked a live application (whose details are below) and start with:

  • writing test scenarios
  • test execution
  • metric collection

– basically, everything that we would typically do in a real time software testing project – with real time examples, artifacts and deliverables all created in the process.

How to follow this software testing course series?

Step#1: Introduction and SRS Walkthrough – We will start this mini software testing course with SRS walkthrough. We have created and shared a sample SRS document. Go through it as all further steps depend on your understanding of this application.

Step #2: SRS review and test scenario preparation.

Step #3: Test Plan – complete process of creating a test plan from the scratch. The final test plan version will be shared with you for reference.

Step #4: Test Cases – complete test cases writing process with some sample test cases. We may use any test management tool or spreadsheet for writing test cases.

Step #5: Application walkthrough and test execution – how to execute test cases and record the test results.

Steps #6: Defect reporting

Step #7: Defect verification, regressing testing process

Steps #8: QA Sign-off

The intention is to give you all a feel of real time project experience and expertise. We hope you find this series useful.

Introduction to the application that we are going to use further:

Client: Orange

Application: OrangeHRM demo.

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Service provider: SoftwareTestingHelp.com

Project description: Orange wants to create a commercial human resources management product that can be consumed and customized by medium sized businesses located in a single country and globally. It has 2 versions: Professional and Enterprise.

The features include:

  • Personal Information Management
  • Advanced Leave Management
  • Time & Attendance Tracking
  • Employee Performance Management
  • Recruitment
  • Advanced Reporting
  • Country / Location Based Employee Management
  • Localized Leave Rules
  • Configurable Workflows
  • Platinum Support
  • Country/Location Based Reporting
  • Custom Reporting

Note:For the sake of simplicity and to limit out scope let us consider the employee module of this HRM portal where the user has an option to enter their personal information.

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When a customer or a business owner has a need to venture into the online world or make updates on the already existing site or application, the need is a business problem and the software is a piece of code that is designed to solve this business problem.

A customer then approaches a software service provider to make this software a reality for them. That is when the software project inception begins.

A traditional waterfall project (SDLC) has the following phases:

  • As QAs we all know that even though “Test” is step 5 of this flow, it is not the only place we testers play a prominent role.
  • Also, testing is a reactive job. With no code/application ready to test we cannot really ‘test’ anything. In order to be ready and react in the most efficient way possible we try as much as we can to plan and prepare ahead. So, even though phase 5 is for testing, our activities start way ahead.

Briefly this is what happens in each phase:

Initiate:

Free Online Software Testing Course Syllabus

Once the producer and the customer agree on terms – the software production begins.

  • In this phase, business requirements are gathered and analyzed. The analysis is going to involve the decisions on technological considerations, hardware & software specifications, people, effort, time, relevance and improvements among others.
  • Business analysts, Project Managers and client representative are involved in this step.
  • At the end of this step and basic project plan is prepared.
  • Project specific documents like scope document and/or business requirements are made.
  • QA involvement at this stage is typically not to be expected. (This is a slight deviation from what it should be because to identify issues early in the developmental phases, it is best to involve QA right from the beginning.)

Define:

The business requirements finalized are the inputs for this step.

  • This phase involves the translation of business requirements into functional requirements for the software. For example: if the business requirement is to allow a user to buy something from a site. The functional requirement will have details like site format->menu option name and placement->Search product-> shopping cart->Checkout (registration or not) ->payment options->confirmation of sale.
  • Developers, Business Analysts, Project Managers are involved in this phase
  • The output of this phase is a detailed document containing the functional requirements of the software. This document is referred to by many names – Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional requirements document (FRD) or Functional requirements specification (FRS).
  • This is where the QA team gets involved – after the completion of SRS documentation.
  • While the finalizing on functional requirements and the documentation of the SRS is going on, the QA manager/lead is involved to draft an initial version of the test plan and form a QA team.

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  • The QA team’s involvement is going to be once the SRS is documented.
  • At this stage either the development team or the business analyst or sometimes even the QA team lead will give a walkthrough of the SRS to the QA team.
  • In case of a new project a thorough walkthrough in the form of a conference or meeting works best
  • In case of later releases for an existing project, a document is sent via email or placement in a common repository to the QA team. QA team at this point would read/review it offline and understand the system thoroughly.
  • Since the primary target audience for the SRS document is not just testers, not all of it is useful for us. We testers should be diligent enough when reviewing this document to decide what parts of it are useful for us and what parts of it are not.

SRS Document for this Live Project

A sample SRS document is attached to this post to give you an idea on how this document looks like, the format in which it is written, what kind of information it contains etc. In the next article we will get into how this document is consumed by the QA team to proceed further in our testing projects.

> Download Live Project Sample SRS Document.

Summary:

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In this article we introduced you to the software development and testing process. We also shared a sample SRS document for the live project that we are going to test.

=> Next article in this software testing training series will be – SRS review and the process of creating test scenarios.

A note to the readers here: While the next article in this QA training series is being written, work with us in parallel here for the most live-like experience. Try to give the SRS document a good reading and then we will continue with the next steps when we meet again.

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Happy Testing, till then!

About the Author: STH team member Swati Seela is helping us to present this live project QA training series.

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