Introduction & Overview

• Introduction
• Overview
• History

Software Testing Topics

• Scope
• Functional vs. Non-Functional testing
• Defects and failures
• Finding faults early
• Compatibility
• Input combinations and preconditions
• Static vs. dynamic testing
• Software verification and validation
• The software testing team
• Software quality assurance (SQA)
• Testing Methods - The box approach

White Box Testing

• Introduction
• Types of white box testing
• Test coverage
• Hacking

Black box testing

• Specification-based testing
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Test design techniques
• Hacking
• Grey box testing

Unit Testing

• Overview
• Benefits
• Separation of interface from implementation
• Unit testing limitations
• Applications

Integration testing

• Purpose
• Limitations

System testing

• Testing the whole system
• Types of tests to include in system testing

Miscellaneous Testing Levels

• System integration testing
• Regression testing
• Acceptance testing
• Alpha testing
• Beta testing

Non-functional testing

• Software performance testing and load testing
• Stability testing
• Usability testing
• Security testing
• Internationalization and localization
• Destructive testing

The Testing Process

• Traditional CMMI or waterfall development model
• Capability Maturity Model Integration
• Waterfall model
• Agile or Extreme development model
• A Sample testing cycle

Automated testing

• Code-driven testing
• Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing
• What to test
• Framework approach in automation
• Defining boundaries between automation framework and a testing tool
• Testing tools
• Measurement in software testing

Testing Artifacts

• Test plan
• Traceability matrix
• Test case
• Test script
• Test suite
• Test data
• Test harness

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