The Complete 2026 Software Testing Bootcamp

Master multi-role and multi-channel testing by exploring student, admin, and instructor interactions across web, mobile, and smartwatch channels. Learn to prioritize scenarios and manage complex edge cases affecting multiple roles.

Trace how a client's idea becomes system requirements through the requirements engineer, product owner, and tester, guiding testing, defect reports, and retesting from registration to product search.

Examine the software development lifecycle models, including sequential development, waterfall, and the V model, and compare agile iterative and incremental approaches with MVPs.

Software testing is a structured process to evaluate software against requirements and find defects early. It protects business reputation, builds user trust, and involves multiple roles beyond testers.

Explore the full spectrum of test activities from planning, analysis, and design to execution, distinguish testing from debugging, and map tests to unit, integration, system, system integration, and acceptance testing.

Explore popular testing types, including functional and non-functional testing, black-box and white-box approaches, static and dynamic testing, and practices like retesting, regression, smoke, and sanity testing.

Learn to perform requirements and design reviews to identify ambiguities and issues, generate test scenarios, and validate a shopping cart checkout with pricing, taxes, and discounts.

Evaluate wireframes against requirements to spot defects, question inconsistencies, and engage stakeholders to resolve design versus requirements contradictions using the test oracle.

Define test scenarios as high-level statements that describe what should be tested on a feature, without detailing how to test it. Use positive and negative scenarios to show coverage, support regression testing, and coordinate teammates without duplication, for example verifying that a registered user can log in with valid credentials.

In the genai era, testers shift from creating scenarios to reviewing AI-generated ones, evaluating outputs through prompt engineering and contextual prompts. Prioritize tests and coordinate with managers on automation.

Discover how prompt engineering and prompt structure enhance software testing by producing high-quality login test scenarios, using role, context, instruction, input data, constraints, and output format.

Review and prioritize test scenarios for a login flow, applying risk and business impact to categorize high, medium, and low priorities, including edge cases and user experience considerations.

Execute login test scenarios, identify defects such as password case sensitivity and show password issues, document defects via notes and high-quality reports, and use test data to guide agile testing.

Identify defects as deviations between expected and actual behavior from requirements, and report them with clear titles, priority, environment, expected versus actual results, attachments, and steps to reproduce.

Learn to report defects using board-based and flow-based methods, track new defects through pending retest to solved or closed, and capture steps to reproduce with expectations and results.

Explore prompt engineering techniques, including meta prompting and zero-, one-, and two-shot prompting, to craft concise, professional defect reports and ensure consistent prompts across teams.

Learn how to manage testing in agile projects using Jira for scrum spaces, write test cases, report defects, and organize work with sprints, backlog, epics, stories, tasks, and bugs.

Master agile project artifacts by managing the backlog and sprint scope, writing user stories with acceptance criteria using given when then, and tracking with Jira.

Learn how to create test cases in Jira via a test management tool, compare Zephyr, Xray, and Qase, and choose a free forever option to export artifacts for portfolios.

Compare mobile testing with web testing, highlighting device fragmentation, varying screen sizes, and field conditions that influence user experience; automation aids testing across many devices.

Explore what an application programming interface is, how requests and responses flow between the client, waiter, and kitchen analogy, and compare soap and rest with xml and json data formats.

Explore HTTP protocol basics, including HTTPS, request and response structure (start line, headers, blank line, body), common methods GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE, status codes, and JSON or XML payloads.

Explore XML basics, including extensible markup language, differences from HTML, and how browsers read XML with opening and closing tags, elements, and arrays like audience; compare to JSON.

Learn JSON basics, compare JSON with XML, and master curly brackets, arrays, and values, including using content-type json and simple conversion tools.

Compare json and xml, highlighting popularity shifts and the need to work with legacy xml APIs, while noting that both serve the same purpose; json is simpler, xml remains powerful.

Compare soap and rest apis: soap uses wsdl and xml envelopes, while rest uses json and is stateless; most apis now favor json and rest over soap.

Explore the five main http methods—get, post, put, patch, and delete—and their CRUD roles, with guidance on put versus patch and validating deletions with a follow-up get.

Explore http status codes across 100 informational, 200 and 201 success, 300 redirection, 400 client errors, and 500 server errors, with examples 401 unauthorized and 404 not found, and implications.

Discover how to install and use Postman across Windows, Mac, Linux, and web; sign up, collaborate in teams, and navigate limits like 3 collaborators and 25 collection runs, including Postbot.

Explore how Postman acts as a browser to test http requests across workspaces, collections, environments, and history, including methods, responses, headers, query parameters, authorization, pre-request, post-response, and redirects.

Learn how to save and organize API requests in Postman with descriptive names and collections, and validate responses by testing status code, response time, and data using JavaScript tests.