Manual Course Brochure

INTRODUCTION:

Ø WHAT IS PROJECT

Ø WHAT IS PRODUCT

Ø WHAT IS QUALITY?                            

Ø WHAT IS TESTING?                            

Ø WHY TESTING?

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE (SDLC):

Ø INITIAL (OR) REQUIREMENTS PHASE                        

Ø ANALYSIS PHASE                             

Ø DESIGN PHASE                                 

Ø CODING PHASE                                

Ø TESTING PHASE                               

Ø DELIVERY AND MAINTENANCE PHASE

WHERE EXACTLY TESTING COMES INTO PICTURE?

Ø CONVENTIONAL TESTING                            

Ø UNCONVENTIONAL TESTING

TESTING METHODOLOGY:

Ø BLACK BOX TESTING                                   

Ø WHITE BOX TESTING                                   

Ø GREY BOX TESTING

LEVELS OF TESTING:

Ø UNIT LEVEL TESTING                                   

Ø MODULE LEVEL TESTING                              

Ø INTEGRATION LEVEL TESTING                                 

Ø SYSTEM LEVEL TESTING                               

Ø USER ACCEPTANCE LEVEL TESTING

ENVIRONMENTS:

Ø STAND-ALONE ENVIRONMENT (OR) ONE-TIER ARCHITECTURE                                  

Ø CLIENT-SERVER ENVIRONMENT (OR) TWO-TIER ARCHITECTURE                               

Ø WEB ENVIRONMENT (OR) THREE-TIER ARCHITECTURE                                  

Ø DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT (OR) N-TIER ARCHITECTURE

SOFTWARE PROCESS DEVELOPMENT MODELS:

Ø WATER FALL MODEL                        

Ø PROTOTYPE MODEL                         

Ø EVOLUTIONARY MODEL                               

Ø SPIRAL MODEL                                 

Ø FISH MODEL                        

Ø V-MODEL     

Ø AGILE

TYPES OF TESTING:

Ø BUILD VERIFICATION TESTING/BUILD ACCEPTANCE TESTING/SANITY TESTING

Ø REGRESSION TESTING

Ø RE TESTING

Ø ALPHA TESTING

Ø BETA TESTING

Ø STATIC TESTING

Ø DYNAMIC TESTING

Ø INSTALLATION TESTING

Ø COMPATABILITY TESTING

Ø MONKEY TESTING    

Ø SABILITY TESTING

Ø END-TO-END TESTING

Ø EXPLORATORY TESTING

Ø SECURITY TESTING

Ø PORT TESTING

Ø MUTATION TESTING

Ø SOAK TESTING/RELIABILITY TESTING

Ø ADHOC TESTING

Ø PERFORMANCE TESTING

Ø LOAD TESTING

Ø DATABASE TESTING

SOFTWARE TESTING LIFE CYCLE (STLC):

Ø TEST PLANNING

Ø  CONTENTS OF TEST PLAN

Ø TEST DEVELOPMENT

Ø  USE CASE REVIEWS

Ø  TYPES OF TEST CASES

Ø  FORMATS OF TESTING DOCUMENTS

Ø  TESTING PROCESS

Ø  TEST CASE DESIGN

Ø  TEST DESIGN TECHNIQUES

§  BVA

§  ECP

Ø TEST EXECUTION

Ø  EXECUTION PROCESS

Ø  END-TO-END SCENARIOS EXECUTION

Ø RESULT ANALYSIS

Ø  BUG TRACKING

Ø  TYPES OF BUGS

Ø  IDENTIFYING THE BUGS

Ø  ISOLATION THE BUGS

Ø  BUG LIFE CYCLE

Ø  REPORTING THE BUGS

§  CLASSICAL BUG REPORTING PROCESS

§  COMMON REPOSITORY ORIENTED BRP

§  BUG TRACKING TOOL ORIENTED BRP

Ø  TEST CLOSURE ACTIVITY:

Ø  TEST EXECUTION STOP CRITERIA     

Ø  TEST SUMMARY REPORTS

Software Configuration Management with VSS

Ø What is Configuration Management?

Ø Significance & Advantages

Ø How to make best use of it

Ø VSS

Ø  Software Configuration Management

Ø  Purpose of SCM

Ø  Problems/Benefits using VSS

Ø  SCM process

Ø  Configuration of VSS

Ø  Navigation to VSS

Ø  Directory Structure used for project

Ø  Check-out files

Ø  Check-in files

Testing Roles and Responsibilities

Ø  ASE

Ø  Software Engineer

Ø  Sr. Software Engineer

Ø  Team Lead

Ø  Project Lead

Ø  Test Manager

Defect Reporting Through Bugzilla/QUALITY CENTER

Quality Center

Ø  Introduction of Quality Center

Ø  The Quality Center Testing Process

Ø  Starting Quality Center

Ø  The Quality Center Window

Ø  Specifying Testing Requirements

Ø  Defining Requirements

Ø  Viewing Requirements

Ø  Modifying Requirements

Ø  Converting Requirements

Ø  Planning Tests

Ø  Developing Test Plan Tree

Ø  Designing Test Steps

Ø  Creating and Viewing Requirements Coverage

Ø  Adding Test Sets

Ø  Running Test Sets Manually

Ø  Adding and Tracking Defects

Ø  How to Track the Defects?

Ø  Adding New Defects

Ø  Updating Defects

Ø  Analyzing

Ø  Reports from QC

TERMINOLOGY

Ø  Defect products

Ø  Defective products

Ø  Quality Assurance

Ø  Quality Control

Ø  NCR

Ø  Inspection

Ø  Audit

Ø  Internal audit

Ø  External audit

Ø  CAPA

Ø  SCM

Ø  Common Repository

Ø  Baseline

Ø  Publishing

Ø  Release

Ø  Delivery

Ø  SRN 

Ø  SDN

Ø  Review

Ø  Review report

Ø  Peer – review

Ø  Peer- review report

Ø  Slip age

Ø  Traceability Matrix

Ø  Impact Analysis

Ø  Test suite

Ø  Test Bed

Ø  Defect age

Ø  Latent Defect

Ø  PPM 

Ø  MOM

Ø  Patch