• History of Testing
• What is Testing
• Why Testing is required
• What is a Defect
• Testing principles
• Quality Assurance and Quality control
• Scope of Testing
• When Should Testing Occur
• Testing Constraints
• Roles of the Software Tester
• Overview on SDLC
• Different Life Cycle models
• Overview on STLC
• AGILE Testing

Week-2

• Test Strategy
• Test Planning
• Customization of the Test Process
• Overview on Budgeting
• Scheduling
• Configuration management
• Risk management

• Test Scenarios
• Test cases
• Test Data
• Difference between Test Case and Test Scenario
• Creating Test Cases for sample application
• What is Traceability Matrix[TM]
• Sample TM

Week-3

• Static Techniques: Importance of reviews in STLC, Review Activities, Roles and Responsibilities during Review
• Dynamic Techniques: Specification-based or black-box techniques, Boundary Value Analysis, Decision Table Testing, Equivalence Partitioning
• Experience-based techniques: Error Guessing, Exploratory Testing

• Levels of Testing: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing
• Types of Testing: Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Database Testing, Load Testing, Performance Testing, Compatibility Testing, Security Testing, Volume Testing, Stress Testing, Usability testing, Internationalization Testing, Localization Testing

• Overview on Build and Release
• Release Notes
• Entry and Exit criteria
• Test Execution

• Defect Prevention
• Defect Discovery
• Defect Life Cycle
• Severity and Priority
• Overview on RCA
• Hands on Identify and log Defects

Week-4

• Test Status Reports
• Test Closure Reports
• Tester and Developer
• Team Collaboration
• Client Interaction
• Onshore/Offshore Model
• Mitigate current challenges

• Overview on Metrics & Measurements
• Benefits of Test Metrics
• Metrics Life Cycle
• Types of Test Metrics

Week-5

• Why Automation
• Overview of different Automation Tools - QTP and Selenium
• Overview on Quality Center
• Project session
• Resume building and mock interviews session