Software Testing Course Curriculum

Manual Testing

Start with building a strong foundation in Manual Testing. This section will cover all fundamental topics of Manual Testing.

• What is Software Testing
• Types of software
• Necessity of software Testing
• Why testing as a career
• Psychology of Software Testing
• Product vs Project
• SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle
• SDLC Models
• Waterfall Model
• V-V Model
• Prototype Model
• Agile Model
• 3P’s, TQM
• QA vs QC
• Verification vs Validation
• Static vs Dynamic Testing
• Static Testing
  • Review
  • Walkthrough
  • Inspection
• Black Box, White Box and Grey Box Testing
• Level of Testing
  • Unit
  • Integration
  • System
  • Acceptance
• System Testing Types
  • User Interface Testing (GUI)
  • Usability Testing
  • Functional Testing
  • Non-functional Testing
• Types of Functional Testing
  • Smoke and Sanity
  • Regression and Retesting
  • Ad hoc Testing
  • Monkey Testing
  • Positive Testing
  • Exploratory Testing
  • End to End Testing
  • Globalization and Localization Testing
• Types of Non-Functional Testing
  • Performance Testing (Load, Stress, Volume, Spike)
  • Security Testing
  • Recovery Testing
  • Compatibility Testing
  • Configuration Testing
  • Installation Testing
  • Endurance Testing
• UAT Testing (User Acceptance Testing)
  • Alpha Testing
  • Beta Testing
• Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC)
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Test Planning
  • Test Design
  • Test Environment Setup
  • Test Execution and bug Reporting
  • Test Closure
• Test Plan Vs Test Strategy
• Test Cases writing techniques
  • Equivalence Class Partitioning (ECP)
  • Boundary Value Analysis (BVA)
  • Decision Table
  • State Transition
  • Error Guessing
• Use Cases, Test Cases and Test Scenarios
• Bug Life Cycle (BLC)
• Bug Severity and Priority
• Cookies and Sessions
• Authentication and Authorization
• When to stop testing
• Test Deliverables – Defect Matrix, Traceability Matrix, Execution Report etc

Agile Test Management and Bug tracking/Reporting with JIRA

• Implementation of Jira by creating a Project based on Agile- Scrum framework
• How to track the Epic, User story, Task, Sub task and Bugs in Jira
• Sprint implementation and Scrum Ceremonies
• Daily Scrum call during project implementation
• Will get live experience in working Jira

SQL and Database Testing

• Why Testing Professional should have the knowledge of database
• CRUD understanding
• DML: Insert, update, Delete, merge
• DDL: Create, Drop, Alter, Rename, Modify, Truncate
• TCL: Commit, Rollback, Save Point
• Constraints & View: Not Null, Unique, Primary key
• Aggregating data using group functions: GROUP BY and HAVING
• Overview and concept Sub queries: Single Row sub queries and Multiple row Sub queries

Automation Testing - Java

#1. Java Introduction

• What is java?
• Why java is most reliable and Secure language
• Java files
• Identifiers
• Java Components naming standards
• Java source file declaration rules
• First Java program

#2. Classes and Objects

• Classes and object’s introduction
• Creating first Class and Object
• How to use objects in the classes

#3. Variables and Operators

• Introduction to Variables and their data types
• Primitive and Non-primitive variables
• Variable implicit and explicit casting
• Operators in java
• Static, Instance and Local variables

#4. Java Methods and their use

• Introduction to methods
• Method arguments and return types
• Methods different sections
• Constructor in Java
• Chaining constructor

#5. Arrays and loop

• If-else statement
• While loop
• Do-while loop
• For loop
• Enhanced for loop
• 1-D, 2-D and multidimensional Array

#6. Polymorphism and Inheritance

• Understanding inheritance and Polymorphism
• Methods overriding and overloading
• IS-A and HAS-A relationship
• Super class Vs Subclass
• Access Modifiers

#7. Abstract Classes and Interfaces

• Abstract classes and methods
• Interfaces and it’s implementation
• Abstract classes vs Interfaces

#8. String and its implementation

• Concept of Stack and Heap
• Creating String object by String Literal and new keyword
• Concept of String constant pool
• Operations on String

#9. Statics and data formatting

• Static methods, variables and constants
• Math class and methods
• Wrapper classes

#10. Exception handling

• Introduction to Java Exceptions
• Catching exceptions using try/catch block
• The finally block
• Catching multiple exceptions

#11. Collections

• Introduction to Java collections
• Lists
• Sets
• Map
• Hashmap

#12. JDBC

• JDBC concepts and terminology
• JDBC package
• Creating connection to a Database
• Accessing and manipulating tables using JDBC
• SQL statements

#13. Serialization and file I/O

• Saving objects state
• Writing serialized object
• I/O streams
• Serializable interface
• Deserialization
• Java IO file
• Reading/Writing a text file

Selenium WebDriver

#1. Introduction of Selenium

• What is Automation Testing
• Use of automation Testing
• Tools for Automation Testing
• Why automation is important for you career?
• What is Selenium
• Advantage of Selenium
• History of Selenium
• Component of Selenium
• Differences between API's Vs GUI's

#2. Selenium IDE

• Selenium IDE Introduction
• Debugging in Selenium IDE Script

#3. Set up Eclipse

• Download and install java
• Download and start Eclipse
• Download and configure WebDriver java client
• Set up a project
• Create packages
• Create a First Java test case

#4. Browser & Navigation Commands

• How to Open a URL
• Verify Page title
• Difference between Close & Quit
• Ways to Navigate Back & Forward
• How to Refresh Page

#5. Locators

• What are locators
• HTML Basics
• HTML language tags and attributes
• ID, Name, Xpath, CSS etc.
• Difference between Absolute & Complete Xpath

#6. Drop-down, Tables, Checkboxes & Radio buttons

• Identify table rows and columns
• Extracting values from a cell
• Dynamically Identify Tables Data
• Select class in Selenium
• Drop Down Handle
• Select multiple values from the list
• Select & Deselect operations by Index, Value & Visible Text

#7. Waits, Alert & Switch Windows operations in Selenium

• Implicit and Explicit waits
• How to use Expected Conditions with Waits
• PageLoadTimeout & SetScriptTimeout property
• Simple use of Thread Sleep
• Concept of Fluent Wait in Selenium
• WebDriverWait and its uses
• Different WaitUntil Conditions
• Ways to handle Simple, Confirmation & Prompt Alert
• Difference between Window Handle & Handles
• Switching & Closing Windows, Tabs & Popup's
• Concept of window ID
• JavaScriptExecutor Interface
• Captured Screenshot

#8. Action Class

• What is Action Class & What can we do with Action Class
• Mouse Hover & Mouse Movement with Action
• Finding Coordinates of a Web Object
• Drag and Drop Action

#9. TestNG Framework

• What is TestNG
• Benefits and Features of TestNG
• How to download TestNG
• Annotations in TestNG
• How to run Test Suite in TestNG
• Groups in TestNG
• Test Case sequencing in TestNG
• TestNG Asserts
• TestNG Parameters
• Multi Browser testing in TestNG
• Parallel testing in TestNG
• Extent Report API

#10. Database Connections

• Database connection
• Database Testing in Selenium using MySql Server

#11. Automation Framework

• Define Automation Framework
• Characteristics of Automation Framework
• Benefits of using Automation Framework
• Different types of Automation Framework
• What is Data Driven Framework
• What is Keyword Driven Framework
• POM (Page Object Model)
• Page Fatcory
• Apache POI API
• Read and Write Excel file with Apache POI

#12. Maven

• Maven Introduction
• Install Maven on Windows
• Install Maven in Eclipse IDE
• How to Create a New Maven Project in Eclipse
• Configuration of POM & set multiple builds

#13. Jenkins

• Jenkins Introduction
• Installation & configuration of complete Jenkins setup
• Scheduling of Maven build & set multiple builds in Jenkins
• Overview of integration between Jenkins & GitHub

#14. GitHub

• Introduction of GitHub
• Github set up in eclipse IDE
• Building repository on git