The course content of software testing certification workshop is as follows:

1. Fundamentals of Testing

• Testing Principles and Concepts:
  
  1. Introduction to Software Testing
  2. Principles and objectives of Software Testing
  3. People Challenges in Software Testing
  4. What is a bug and cost of bugs?
  5. What makes a good tester?
  6. Factors affecting quality of Testing
  7. Software Testing Terms and Definitions
  8. Different Standards followed in IT industry
  9. Testing Axioms
  10. V & V
  11. Equivalence Partitioning
  12. Boundary Conditions
  13. Severity and Priority
  14. How to write a Good Test Case
  15. Difference in Functional and Non- Functional Requirements
  16. Testing, Debugging & Root Cause Analysis
• Levels of Software Testing:
  
  1. Testing Process in General
  2. Unit Testing
  3. Integration Testing
  4. System Testing
  5. User Acceptance Testing
• Software Development Life Cycle:
  
  1. Big Bang Model
  2. Code And Fix Model
  3. Waterfall Model
  4. Iteration Model
  5. Spiral Model
  6. V Model
  7. W Model
• Types of Software Testing:
  
  1. Black Box Testing:
     
     1. Static Black Box Testing
     2. Dynamic Black Box Testing
  2. White Box Testing:
     
     1. Static White Box Testing
     2. Dynamic White Box Testing
  3. Grey Box Testing
• Test Planning:
  
  1. Test Strategy
  2. Test Plan
  3. Test Schedule
• Test Design:
  
  1. Test Scenario
  2. Test Cases
  3. Requirement Traceability Metrics
• Test Execution:
  
  1. Test Execute
  2. Test cycle
  3. Retesting
• Defect Management:
  
  1. Defect life cycle
  2. How to Log Defects
• Test Reporting:
  
  1. Metrics:
     
     1. Purpose
     2. Characteristics of Good Metrics
     3. Analyzing Test Metrics
     4. Metrics
  2. Quality Certificate

2. Test Automation

• Winrunner 8.0:
  
  1. Preparation for Automation:
     
     1. Pre-requisite of Automation
     2. Features of Win Runner
     3. Standard Win runner Testing Process
  2. Create GUI Map:
     
     1. What is Add-ins?
     2. Record & Play back Mechanism
     3. What is GUI Map & GUI Map File?
     4. GUI Map File Modes
  3. Create Tests:
     
     1. Recording Modes
     2. Synchronization for Baseline tests
     3. Check Points & Types of Checkpoints
     4. Data Driven Test
     5. Test Modification - Error Handling
     6. Regular Expression
     7. Batch Mode Execution
     8. User defined Functions
     9. Virtual Objects
  4. Debug Tests:
     
     1. Run Modes in Win runner
     2. Folder Structure of Win runner test
  5. Run Tests:
     
     1. Execution of tests with all types of Test
  6. View Results:
     
     1. Test Results analysis
  7. Report Defects:
     
     1. Report Defect in Test Director

3. Fundamentals of Performance Testing

• Usability Testing:
  
  1. Usability Characteristics
  2. Exercise ? Usability Testing
• Software Reliability
• Performance Testing:
  
  1. Race Conditions & Time Dependencies
  2. Resource Utilization Testing
  3. Load ? Volume Testing
  4. Load ? Stress Testing
  5. Normal Load, Volume & Stress Testing Compared
  6. Exercise ? Performance Testing
• Safety Testing
• Security Testing
• Configuration Testing
• Localization Testing

4. Test Management Tool

• Test Director 7.2 (Licensed):
  
  1. Introduction To Test Director:
     
     1. Objectives
     2. What is Test Director?
     3. Understanding Test Director?s different Tabs
  2. Requirements:
     
     1. Categories of Test Requirement
     2. Requirement Approach in TD
     3. Reports & Graph
  3. Test Planning/ Cases:
     
     1. Purpose
     2. How to write a Test Case in TD
     3. Import functionality from Excel
     4. Reports & Graphs
  4. Test Execution:
     
     1. How to Execute
     2. Test Set
     3. Purpose
     4. Support Analysis and Decision Making
     5. Risk-Based Test Management
     6. How to log a Defect from Test Execution Tab
     7. Reports & Graphs
  5. Defect:
     
     1. Purpose
     2. Defect Tracking Life Cycle
     3. Analysis of Defect Life Cycle
     4. Reports & Graphs
  6. Administrative Utilities:
     
     1. Create Users & groups
     2. Create User-defined List & Entities
     3. Document Generation for Entire Project
• Test Mantis (Open Source):
  
  1. Installing WAMP and Mantis
  2. Creating the Database
  3. Creating Privileges
  4. Manage Users
  5. Manage Projects
  6. Understanding how to play different roles
  7. Report Bugs
  8. View Bugs
  9. Assigning it to Development Team
  10. Bug Life Cycle
  11. Reports
  12. Summary

5. Assignments on Live Projects

• Search different Templates
• Hands-on on Automation Tools
• Hands-on on Test Management Tool

6. Overview of Defect Prevention & Process Improvement
7. Overview of Windows and Web Based Application
8. Certification assistance: 100% assistance and assurance*