Manual Testing Syllabus

Manual Testing Overview

• Introduction to Software Testing
• Product Vs Project
• What is Quality?
• Bug / Defect
• What is testing?
• Why Testing?

Software Development Life Cycle

• Initial (or) Requirements phase.
• Analysis phase Design phase
• Coding phase
• Testing phase
• Delivery and Maintenance phase
• How to choose model for Project

Where Exactly Testing Come into picture?

• Conventional Testing
• Unconventional Testing

Testing Methodology

• Black Box Testing
• White Box Testing
• Gray Box Testing

Levels of Testing

• Unit Level Testing
• Module Level Testing
• Integration Level Testing
  • Top down Approach
  • Bottom Up approach
  • Stubs & Driver
• User Acceptance Level Testing
  • Alfa Testing
  • Beta Testing
• System Level Testing (Non Functional Testing)

Software Development Models

• Waterfall Model
• Prototype Model
• Evolutionary Model
• Spiral Model
• Fish Model
• V-Model
• Agile Process

Environments

• One Tier Architecture
• Two Tier Architecture
• Three Tier Architecture
• N- Tier Architecture
• Difference between Web application and client server application

Types of Testing

• Build Verification Testi ng/BAT/Pre SRN Testing
• Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing
• Regression
• Re-Testing
• Alpha Testing
• Beta Testing
• Static Testing
• Dynamic Testing
• Installation Testing
• Compatibility Testing
• Monkey Testing
• Usability Testing
• End-To-End Testing
• Exploratory Testing
• Security Testing
  • Authentication Testing
  • Direct URL Testing
  • Firewall Leakage Testing
• Port Testing
• Reliability Testing
• Mutation Testing
• Adhoc Testing
• Globalization Testing
  • I18N Testing
  • L10N Testing

Test Planning

• Contents of Test Plan

Test Development

• Use Case Reviews
• Types of Test Cases
• Formats of Testing Documents
• Testing Process
• Test case design
• Test design techniques
  • BVA
  • ECP and Error Guessing
• Traceability Matrix

Test Execution

• Execution Process
• End-to- End Scenarios execution

Result Analysis - Bug Tracking and Reporting

• Types of Bugs
• Identifying the Bugs
• Isolation the Bugs
• Bug Life Cycle
• Reporting the Bugs
• Classical Bug Reporting
• Common Repository oriented BRP
• Bug Tracking Tool Oriented BRP
• Bug Life Cycle (BLC)

Bug Tracking Tools

• Bugzilla
• TestLink

Test Closure Activity

• Test Execution stop criteria
• Test summary reports

Additional concepts

• How the company will maintain the secured
• Introduction to CR ? SVN Integration
• What is Continues Integration
• Jenkins Integration & Setup
• Execute the programs from Jenkins

Real Time Process Awareness with Terminology

• Quality Assurance
• Quality Control
• NCR
• Inspection
• Audit
• CAPA
• Software Configuration Management
• Build Release process
• SRN
• S/W Delivery process
• SDN
• Reviews
• Peer-Review
• Traceability Matrix
• Metrics
• Test Bed
• Escalation Process
• Slippage
• Base Lining the Documents
• Publishing the documents
• Common Repository Management
• Patch Build
• PPM
• PPR
• MRM
• Defective Product
• Change Request
• Impact Analysis
• Walk Through
• Code Walk Through
• Code Optimization
• Work Around
• Defect Age
• Latent Defect

Testing Principles

• Manual Testing
• Automation Testing
• Drawbacks of Manual Testing
• Drawbacks of Automation Testing

Non Functional Testing

• Load Testing
• Performance Testing
• Stress Testing
• Volume testing
• Soak Testing
• Spike Testing