Hands-on technical aspects of software testing for beginners

Hands-on technical aspects of software testing for beginners, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 3.5, with 103 lectures, 11 quizzes, based on 31 reviews, and has 268 subscribers.

You will learn about Perform & manage complete test activities from analysis to test execution & reporting mock projects with Jira X-Ray most popular defect & test management tool. Structured approach to requirement traceability, test analysis, test design, test data prep, test execution & test reporting with or without test tools. Extract functional & non-functional aspects from requirements or use cases and set preconditions to prepare for the software test life cycle (STLC). You will be able to perform Test Analyst, Test Designer, Test Executor roles and gain the Know-how to find bugs early before the commencement of the test cycle. Perform X-Ray complete test cycle in Jira Agile mock project environment from story to test set, test plan, test execution to defects reporting. Create and manage Jira Epics, Stories, Tasks & confluence in a mock Agile Scrum project environment. Manage Jira Agile projects from creation to Scrum Backlog building & prioritizing. (Bonus section: XRAY new features) Create search filters & reuse them to create project Scrum Boards. Create Jira release versions & components to link to tests & to report. Use Confluence as a collaboration tool to create project space, How to Article, Know-How pages and project requirements documentation. Create Jira project Dashboard and Generate X-Ray test overage, traceability and other reports. Compare Selenium vs Katalon plug-ins. Be able to test any software, web application, system or mobile devices and generate revenue from a software testing career or remote work. You will get software testing career development & support to hit the ground running as a Software Test Professional, the most demanding job in 2019. Install & Configure MSSQL server 2017 & MSSQL Studio 2018. Familiarize yourself with RDBMs D . 3) Retrieve data from tables by writing simple TSQL queries. The Bonus: Xray new features – Jira & Bitbucket integration – Web browser test automation and unit testing demos using Java & Selenium. Software Test Automation Frameworks – Newly added August 2023 update: Overview – Test Management Phases August 2023 update: Software environments, DevOps and CI/CD August 2023 update: Test Data Management and Test Data Generation September 2023 update: Data Science & Data Analytics tools ( Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook, Neural Network and Deep learning packages) Manipulating data with numpy and pandas libraries. Case Study: Real-World Integration & Verification Strategies for Industrial Applications This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is designed for non-testers, beginners or anyone who is interested to start a new career in the software testing field to become a software tester. or No IT background is necessary. It is particularly useful for This course is designed for non-testers, beginners or anyone who is interested to start a new career in the software testing field to become a software tester. or No IT background is necessary.

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Summary

Title: Hands-on technical aspects of software testing for beginners

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 3.5

Number of Lectures: 103

Number of Quizzes: 11

Number of Published Lectures: 103

Number of Published Quizzes: 11

Number of Curriculum Items: 118

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 118

Number of Practice Tests: 2

Number of Published Practice Tests: 2

Original Price: $24.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Perform & manage complete test activities from analysis to test execution & reporting mock projects with Jira X-Ray most popular defect & test management tool.

Structured approach to requirement traceability, test analysis, test design, test data prep, test execution & test reporting with or without test tools.

Extract functional & non-functional aspects from requirements or use cases and set preconditions to prepare for the software test life cycle (STLC).

You will be able to perform Test Analyst, Test Designer, Test Executor roles and gain the Know-how to find bugs early before the commencement of the test cycle.

Perform X-Ray complete test cycle in Jira Agile mock project environment from story to test set, test plan, test execution to defects reporting.

Create and manage Jira Epics, Stories, Tasks & confluence in a mock Agile Scrum project environment.

Manage Jira Agile projects from creation to Scrum Backlog building & prioritizing. (Bonus section: XRAY new features)

Create search filters & reuse them to create project Scrum Boards. Create Jira release versions & components to link to tests & to report.

Use Confluence as a collaboration tool to create project space, How to Article, Know-How pages and project requirements documentation.

Create Jira project Dashboard and Generate X-Ray test overage, traceability and other reports. Compare Selenium vs Katalon plug-ins.

Be able to test any software, web application, system or mobile devices and generate revenue from a software testing career or remote work.

You will get software testing career development & support to hit the ground running as a Software Test Professional, the most demanding job in 2019.

Install & Configure MSSQL server 2017 & MSSQL Studio 2018. Familiarize yourself with RDBMs D . 3) Retrieve data from tables by writing simple TSQL queries.

The Bonus: Xray new features – Jira & Bitbucket integration – Web browser test automation and unit testing demos using Java & Selenium.

Software Test Automation Frameworks – Newly added

August 2023 update: Overview – Test Management Phases

August 2023 update: Software environments, DevOps and CI/CD

August 2023 update: Test Data Management and Test Data Generation

September 2023 update: Data Science & Data Analytics tools ( Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook, Neural Network and Deep learning packages)

Manipulating data with numpy and pandas libraries.

Case Study: Real-World Integration & Verification Strategies for Industrial Applications

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for non-testers, beginners or anyone who is interested to start a new career in the software testing field to become a software tester.

No IT background is necessary.

Target Audiences

This course is designed for non-testers, beginners or anyone who is interested to start a new career in the software testing field to become a software tester.

No IT background is necessary.

If you are a beginner or a non-software tester, then you have made an excellent choice in choosing this course.

This course will walk you through real-life workplace simulated scenarios, which have been driven by my real-life workplace experiences.

Simulated scenarios, mock projects, personae, challenges & quizzes used in this course will drift you away, form the traditional learning methods, to place your learning engagement at the highest.

This course has been specifically designed for beginners and non-testers who seek to become software test professionals.

Key features of the course:

Introduce software testing to beginners and non-testers

Personal skills & career development

Practical aspects of software testing at workplace

Practical learning of software testing by doing

Manual approach to build principles of software testing

Implement software testing using popular tools: Jira, X-Ray & Confluence

Gain familiarity with technical testing: (Relational databases) – (Brand new section)

Gain familiarity with test automation frameworks – (Brand new section)

This course is presented in 11 sections:

What does the course cover – The course Landscape

Real Workplace Scenarios 

Overall Test Management Process

Using Jira, X-Ray & Confluence 

Implementing & leading Jira Agile projects

Other Software testing jobs

So you want to be a Software Tester?

Challenge: Manual vs Automated testing

Relational database testing – (Brand new section – In progress)

The Extras: Section contains the latest features, functionality and demos

Bonus: Recommendation: ISTQB Training, Certification Exams & (XRAY new features update)

By the end of this course you will be able to perform the following software testing roles:

1. Software Test Analyst

2. Software Test Designer

3. Software Test Executor

What will you lean:

Identify soft and hard skills needed to be a Software Test Professional

Make decisions to develop missing skills needed to do the job

Learn how to monitor your progress

Gain insight into software testing market demand

Learn how to employ your skills at workplace

Gain familiarity with typical IT organization structure and departments

Gain familiarity with people roles and responsibilities at workplace

Appreciate how important is to be proactive and a team player

Cope and adapt with awkward situations at workplace

Turn awkward situations at workplace to your advantage

Be determined, proactive and use your own initiative all the way through

Develop and sharpen your skills to cope with unforeseen circumstances at workplace

Learn how to multi-task to cope with unusual situations 

Observe minor details around you and at workplace

Be proactive to develop own knowledge, capabilities and self-motivation

Gain insight into other software testing jobs

Familiarize yourself with other software tools and applications

Gain insight into how to get software testing jobs

How to start as a software tester in the UK

How to start your own LTD or Umbrella company in the UK

How to prepare yourself for job interview questions

  Software requirements: Functional & Non-Functional:

Learn the difference between functional & non-Functional software requirement specifications

Analyze software requirement specifications

Extract functional requirements

Learn that software requirement can be modeled as Use Cases

Gain familiarity with Unified Modelling Language

Test Phases, STLC, Test Case Design and Test Data:

The important phases of Software Test Life Cycle

Software Test Life Cycle phases, test types and what each phase involves

How test is organized within the overall project plan

How to organize your test efforts

Create, set preconditions and prepare test data for test cases

Link test cases to requirements 

Use structured test design approach to find bugs early

Know the success of software product relies on its quality

Learn why software testing considered necessary to the quality

How to link user events, actions or flows to preconditions

The difference between dummy and real client data

How test data can uniquely identify a future defect

The difference between valid and invalid inputs

How to define and create test case template

The minimum data columns required for a test template

How to come up with a new test template

How a test template can measure software traceability & test coverage

How test template can aid test reporting

How to differentiate between defects and correct behavior

How to write positive test case scenarios

How to write negative test case scenarios

How to challenge application or system under test

How to raise defects during test cycles

Manual Test Case Execution, Manual vs Automated testing:

How to manually execute test steps

How to create a report template using Excel or Word applications

How to compile end of test report

Compare Manual vs Automated testing plug-ins & tools

Jira, X-Ray & Confluence:

(NB: This tool is closely related to the course andyou will need to sign-up)

Create and Delete projects

Create user stories

Create tests & link to user stories

Create project releases versions & components

Link tests to software versions & components

Edit and change existing components

Create or import manual test steps from CSV file format

Create test preconditions

The difference between epic, story and tasks

Create issues, bugs, tasks and epics

Confluence collaboration tool basics

Create How-to articles confluence pages

Create Confluence project workspace

Execute Jira tests

Implement Agile projects 

Edit and view issue details

Create and save filters

Create scrum boards

Create project dashboards

Use default project board

Use gadgets to customize project dashboard

Edit filters and share with project team or group

Make filter columns visible or invisible

Build project backlog

Prioritize Scrum backlog issues

Identify sprint workload activities

Use active sprints to organize & monitor issues

Estimate story efforts in hours, days or weeks

Report on current sprint status

Generate X-Ray test coverage, traceability & other reports

Export X-Ray reports to CSV file format

Export Test Cases to CSV file format

Software Development frameworks: Agile & Waterfall:

The difference between Agile and Waterfall development frameworks

The quality attributes of Agile framework

Familiarize yourself with rapid development, continuous release integration & delivery

Gain familiarity with software testing in Agile environment

Optional – Data Science & Data Analytics tools (Install Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook, Neural Network and Deep learning packages)

New Lecture (Work in Progress) Dive into System Integration, Verification, and Testing & Test Tools

This course has Assignments, Challenges, 2 Practice Tests and Quizzes

What do you get when you buy this course?

Lifetime access to the course video lectures downloads and updates

Full support from the instructor all aspects of software testing & testing career

Please note: 30-day money back guarantee, you’ve nothing to lose.

Enroll now and start learning, your future software testing career depends on what you do today.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: What Does The Course Cover?

Lecture 1: Welcome to the course

Lecture 2: The course landscape

Lecture 3: Issue: Inconsistent audio volume

Chapter 2: Real workplace scenarios

Lecture 1: Scenario 1: Your first day on the job

Lecture 2: Scenario 2: Meet your test manager

Chapter 3: Overall Test Management Process

Lecture 1: Know Your Organization

Lecture 2: Functional & Non-Functional Requirement

Lecture 3: The Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) & Who Does What?

Lecture 4: Software Testing & Why is it necessary?

Lecture 5: Intro to Requirements & Test Cases

Lecture 6: How to Analyze Requirements and Define Test Cases

Lecture 7: Challenge #1: Traceability – Create a Test Case Template

Lecture 8: Create a Test Case for the ATM Withdraw Transaction

Lecture 9: Create a test data and data set

Lecture 10: Linking Test Cases to Requirements and Defects

Lecture 11: Put it All Together – Manual Test Case Execution

Lecture 12: Challenge #2 Compile End of Test Report

Lecture 13: Recap – Test Management Phases

Chapter 4: Using Jira, X-Ray & Confluence

Lecture 1: What is XRAY?

Lecture 2: How Jira, X-Ray & Confluence support Testing

Lecture 3: Introduction to JQL

Chapter 5: Implementing & leading Jira Agile projects

Lecture 1: Changing the SD Framework from Waterfall to Agile

Lecture 2: Why Agile?

Lecture 3: Implementing a Jira Agile project

Lecture 4: Start Build Project Backlog

Lecture 5: Use Scrum backlog to priotorize issues

Lecture 6: Create a filter & Reuse to Create Scrum Board

Lecture 7: Create Versions and Components

Lecture 8: Create a project Dashboard

Lecture 9: Use Confulence as a collaboration tool

Lecture 10: Generate X-Ray Test Reports

Chapter 6: Other Software Testing Jobs

Lecture 1: Other Software Testing jobs in demand

Lecture 2: Useful software tools to know

Chapter 7: So you want to be a Software Tester?

Lecture 1: Self-Education & Certification

Lecture 2: Job Hunt & CV Update

Lecture 3: Interview Questions & Screening

Lecture 4: How to start as a software tester in the UK

Chapter 8: Challenge No 3: Manual or Automated testing

Lecture 1: Challenge Introduction

Lecture 2: Selenium vs Katalon Demo

Lecture 3: Manual vs Automated Conclusions

Lecture 4: Selenium Web Browsers Testing – Demo

Chapter 9: Software Test Automation Frameworks

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Type of Test Automation frameworks

Lecture 3: My Answer & my approach

Lecture 4: What, Why and How do we automate the test process?

Lecture 5: Brief introduction to BDD framework

Chapter 10: Behaviour Driven Development Tools

Lecture 1: Install IntelliJ Community Edition

Lecture 2: Find IntelliJ and Java versions

Lecture 3: The project set-up: Maven project

Lecture 4: How to configure system environment variables for Maven

Lecture 5: Creating a Maven project with IntelliJ

Lecture 6: POM.XML file and Maven dependencies

Lecture 7: Creating a Cucumber Feature File

Lecture 8: Resolving Cucumber issues and generating Java code

Lecture 9: Cucumber Feature File First Run

Lecture 10: Whats next

Lecture 11: Part1- Techniques on how to automate Cucumber feature file

Lecture 12: Part2- Techniques on how to setup firefox browser for automation

Lecture 13: Web Browser Challenge

Lecture 14: This is what you achieved so far.

Lecture 15: How to make your framework portable

Lecture 16: Automating the Amazon Order Use Case P1

Lecture 17: Automating the Amazon Order Use Case P2

Lecture 18: Automating the Amazon Order Use Case P3

Lecture 19: Web Browser Solution Part 1

Lecture 20: Web Browser Challenge Solution Part 2

Lecture 21: Updates

Chapter 11: Software environments, DevOps and CI/CD

Lecture 1: Software environments

Lecture 2: Test Data Management and Test Data Generation

Lecture 3: Where do we go from here?

Chapter 12: Case Study: Integration & Verification Strategies for Industrial Applications

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Unveiling Actuators

Lecture 3: Exploring the PLC System Architecture

Lecture 4: Essential elements of the strategy

Instructors

Shadi Oweda
ICT & QA Consultant

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2 stars: 3 votes

3 stars: 7 votes

4 stars: 8 votes

5 stars: 10 votes

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