Fundamentals of Software Testing (Beginner's Guide)

Name: Fundamentals of Software Testing (Beginner's Guide)
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Learn the fundamentals of Testing to get ready for a QA Job

Created byNeeraj Kumar Singh

Last updated 1/2025

English

What you'll learn

Understand fundamentals of Testing and basic principles of testing
What are the various phases of testing and activities of each phase
To apply necessary skills of participating and contributing to reviews
Understand and apply test design techniques to improve test cases efficiency
Understand a test organisation, different roles and their respective responsibilities
How to write and communicate various reports including test report, metrics, defect report, etc
Understand how tools can be helpful to minimize your effort and increase productivity of the process

Course content

8 sections • 69 lectures • 11h 53m total length

Introduction to the Course11:39
Explore the fundamentals of manual testing, including test planning, test cases and templates, SDLC models, agile approaches, and a practical path to a QA career.
What is Testing (Part-1)11:04
What is Testing (Part-2)12:41
Types of Testing10:29
This lecture explains static and dynamic testing, including verification and validation, where static reviews documents and dynamic tests the actual product.
Why Testing is Important12:03
Principle of Testing (Part-1)10:40
Principle of Testing (Part-2)11:27
Principle of Testing (Part-3)6:14
Fundamental Test Process8:04
Test Planning9:42
Test Monitoring and Control11:56
Test Analysis8:56
Test Design7:15
Design and prepare test cases from the analyzed test bases, define priorities, create test data and environments, and establish bidirectional traceability between requirements and tests to validate software functionality.
Test Implementation11:18
Test Execution7:16
Test Completion8:53
Psychology of Testing13:04

Waterfall Model6:19
V Model11:06
Agile Methodology10:59
Explore agile methodology, an iterative, sprint-based approach that delivers working software through incremental planning, design, build, test, and review, emphasizing individuals and interactions, customer collaboration, and responding to change.
Testing in SDLC Models10:34
Types of Testing10:43
Identify static and dynamic testing classifications, distinguishing review-based static testing from execution-based dynamic testing, and explain verification, validation, and levels of testing from unit to acceptance.
Functional and Non-Functional Testing8:22
White Box Testing and Black Box Testing8:56
Retesting and Regression Testing9:47

Unit Testing12:21
Explore unit testing as the first testing level, testing the smallest part of an application and its functionality and behavior, including field-level checks with positive and negative data.
Integration Testing9:28
Master integration testing by examining data flow and interfaces between modules, with examples like money transfers and messaging; compare top-down, bottom-up, and big bang approaches and challenge of defect isolation.
Component Integration Testing10:36
Explore component integration testing, which checks interfaces between components within a module, and system integration testing, which links different systems, using country-state-city filtering and payment gateway examples.
System Testing8:53
Acceptance Testing11:04
Performance Testing (Part-1)12:57
Performance Testing (Part-2)8:30
Explore performance testing fundamentals and its five sublevels, including volume, load, endurance, stress, and optional spike testing, to measure stability, response time, and throughput under varying concurrent users.
Usability Testing9:01
Portability Testing7:59

How to Write Effective Test Cases17:28
Introduction to Test Techniques9:11
Equivalence Partitioning11:35
Apply equivalence partitioning in black box testing to group inputs into ranges or partitions, test one case per partition, and reduce test cases while maintaining coverage.
Boundary Value Analysis8:57
Decision Table Testing9:47
Apply decision table testing, a black box technique, to derive the minimum number of test cases from combinations of true/false conditions and their outputs.
State Transition Testing9:21
Use Case Testing13:24
Explore use case testing as a black box technique that models real user and system interactions, defining a single main path, alternatives, and exceptions to streamline test case derivation.
Statement Testing and Coverage7:12
Decision testing and Coverage8:02
Experience Based Testing11:42
Error Guessing5:37
Exploratory Testing10:30

Introduction to Test Tools9:50
Benefits and Risk of Test Tools12:54
Explore the benefits and risks of testing tools, including automation, data-driven testing, consistency, and measurement, while weighing setup, maintenance, interoperability, vendor risk, and ownership.
Tool Support for Testing11:25
Explore the tool support for testing across management and execution phases, covering test management, requirement and defect management, configuration management, test design and data preparation, model-based, and TDD/BDD tools.
Selecting a Test Tool12:57

Usability Testing15:24
Accessibility Testing10:12
Performance Testing13:30
Master performance testing by evaluating time behavior, resource utilization, and capacity, using load, stress, volume, endurance, and spike testing to assess concurrent users and throughput.
Security Testing13:14
Learn the fundamentals of security testing, identify threats and vulnerabilities, and use static and dynamic methods to prevent breaches, unauthorized access, and protect credentials and data.
Interoperability Testing11:30
Portability Testing11:34
API Testing10:44

Requirements

Problem Solving
Positive thinking
Confidence that you can do it
Good learner

Description

This course cover all required fundamental concepts for anyone to start their journey as a QA. The fundamental course is designed in a self paced learning course which allows individuals to learn in their own way with covering all topics at layman level. The course is broken down various topics covered in different chapters for the learners to co-relate them together. This course includes live examples, templates and discussions of several real world example to relate theoretical concepts to real world.

The Business Outcomes expected of a candidate are as follows:

Understand what testing is and why it is beneficial
Understand fundamental concepts of software testing
Identify the test approach and activities to be implemented depending on the context of testing
Assess and improve the quality of documentation
Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing
Align the test process with the software development lifecycle
Understand test management principles
Write and communicate clear and understandable defect reports
Understand the factors that influence the priorities and efforts related to testing
Work as part of a cross-functional team
Know risks and benefits related to test automation
Identify essential skills required for testing
Understand the impact of risk on testing
Effectively report on test progress and quality

Who this course is for:

Beginners in testing
Freshers seeking an opportunity in testing
Professionals working as manual testers

Fundamentals of Software Testing (Beginner's Guide)

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Course content

Fundamentals of Testing17 lectures • 2hr 53min

Chapter 2 - Software Development Lifecycle8 lectures • 1hr 17min

Chapter 3 - Test Types and Test Levels9 lectures • 1hr 31min

Chapter 4 - Test Design Techniques12 lectures • 2hr 3min

Chapter 5 - Test Management10 lectures • 1hr 36min

Chapter 6 - Manual vs Automation Testing2 lectures • 22min

Chapter 7 - Test Tools4 lectures • 47min

Chapter 8 - Quality Characteristics Testing7 lectures • 1hr 26min

Requirements

Description

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