QA/Manual testing Course Content

Basics of QA
How to become a true and valued Software Testing Professional?
Understand the fundamentals of Testing and Quality Assurance.
Understand the basic concepts of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
High level details into Requirements, Design, Build phases
What are Functional Requirements Document, Technical Requirement Documents
Roles of a Business Analyst(BA), Technical Architect, Developer, Tester
Role of an IT department within any organization or any business model
Understand various SDLC models
Waterfall Model, Iterative Model, V Model, Spiral Model.
Performing parallel software testing/STLC along with SDLC.
Rapid Application Development, Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming.
How to write a Business Requirement Document (BRD)?
How to write a Functional Requirement Document (FRD)?
How to write a System Requirement Specification (SRS)?
Intro to Traceability Matrix.
As-Is and To-Be architecture diagrams.
How to write a Use Case Document?
How to write a Use Case Diagram?
Understanding the concept of Use Cases.
Defining a system architecture at high level.
Creating a system process.
Further discussions on naming conventions.
Importance of Domain/Functional knowledge in Software Testing.
How to write test cases from Use Case Document?
Importance of test case coverage.
Importance of writing detailed test steps for every test case.
Do we write test cases before we perform testing, everytime?
JIRA Basics
Challenge in the current manual testing model.
Defect Life Cycle.
What is JIRA?
Why is JIRA needed?
What is the importance of JIRA?
How to install JIRA?
What are the features of JIRA?
How to create a JIRA project?
Adding Users to our JIRA Account.
Importance of Defect Life Cycle and understanding the various stages or states of a defect.
Converting a Defect Life Cycle into JIRA workflow for a project.
Adding Issues/Bugs to the JIRA project.
Attaching screenshots to the Bugs in JIRA.
Assigning, closing, adding comments, effort etc to the JIRA bugs.
Importance of JIRA dashboard for a quick view.
Classifying defects into Critical, Major, Minor etc.
Basics of Regression Testing. What is Regression Testing?
What are software release cycles?
What is Test Case Management?
What are the different phases in Test Case Management? Writing, Planning, Executing, Reporting,
Maintaining.
How to customize JIRA project to handle Test Cases?
Working with Tasks and Sub-Tasks to simulate Test Cases in JIRA?
Cloning a JIRA sub-task to create an issue.
How to create a new Work Flow in JIRA?
How to customize a JIRA Workflow by adding new states and transitions? Why is software test effort
estimation important?
What are the different factors in estimating software testing effort?
How to classify a test case and identify the effort taken for it?
What is an FTE, Contractor, CTC, per hour cost, person months of effort etc?
Formula for software testing effort estimation?
How does software testing effort improve with every release?
Test automation efficiency over manual testing.
Differences in estimation for manual testing and automation testing?
How to create a new issue type in JIRA for Test Cases?
What are JIRA Dashboards?
Creating and customizing JIRA Dashboard
Understanding JIRA filters. Creating and Saving JIRA Filters. Adding Filters to dashboards.
QA Advanced Concepts
Why is software test effort estimation important?
What are the different factors in estimating software testing effort?
How to classify a test case and identify the effort taken for it?
What is an FTE, Contractor, CTC, per hour cost, person months of effort etc?
Formula for software testing effort estimation?
How does software testing effort improve with every release?
Test automation efficiency over manual testing.
Differences in estimation for manual testing and automation testing?
What are the various types of Software Testing?
A sample Test Plan template.
A sample Traceability matrix template.
Preparing your resume.
Applying for job.
Attending interview.
How to write Software Test Cases?
Bugzilla
How to Install Bugzilla?
How to Install Perl (StrawberryPerl)?
How to Install MySQL?
How to Install Apache?
How to run MySQL commands?
Bugzilla Administrations
Adding Products, Components, Version in Bugzilla
Adding users in Bugzilla
Creating bugs/defects in Bugzilla