Certified Software Testing Professional

TABLE OF CONTENT

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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

COURSE OUTLINE

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Introduction & Overview

• What is Software testing
• Overview and History of Software testing

Software Testing Basics

• Testing scope
• Testing types (Functional vs Non-functional, Static vs Dynamic)
• Defects and failures
• Combinations and preconditions of Input
• Verification and validation of Software
• SQA and the software testing team
• The box approach to testing

White Box Testing

• What is white Box Testing and its introduction
• Design techniques of White Box Testing
• Illustrating API testing which is a type of white box testing, with example and implementation
• Degree of source code testing given by code coverage and its criteria with listing tools for different computer languages
• Introducing faults to test code paths by Fault injection method, its history, software implementation and tools (research and commercial tools)
• Modifying program code in small ways by mutation testing, its overview, equivalent mutant and mutant operators in mutation testing
• Requirement review by static testing
• Code coverage types in white box testing
• White box testing as penetration testing

Black box testing

• Testing application functionality by Black box testing
• Application functionality testing as per requirement by Specification-based testing
• Advantages and disadvantages of Black box testing
• Testing by using Decision tables with example and benefits
• Testing by pairing input parameter to a system algorithm
• Using state transition tables in one and two dimension for testing
• Partitioning the input data in equivalent classes for testing
• Testing by using values at edges of equivalent classes by boundary value analysis and its application
• Black box penetration testing
• Combining white and black box testing in Grey box testing

Unit Testing

• Overview of testing the smallest part of an application by unit testing
• Advantages of unit testing in integration, making changes, design and documentation
• Using abstract interfaces to separate interface from implementation
• Limitations of Unit testing
• Using unit testing in Extreme Programming and automation framework
• Frameworks for Unit testing
• Direct language support for unit testing

Integration testing

• Purpose of testing combined modules of software
• Types of integration testing covering big-bang, top-down and bottom-up
• Limitations in conducting Integration testing

System testing

• Testing the whole system
• Testing the GUI by Planning and artificial intelligence, generating the test case and using Event Flow Graphs
• Illustrating the history, goals and methods of Usability testing to test Usability of the application
• Assessing the performance of application by performance testing
• Testing compatibility of application with computing environment
• Illustrating Error handling testing, its Verification, support in programming languages, implementation
• Exception safety of code and its level to handle run-time errors
• Exception handling based on Design by Contract
• Checked exceptions in Java
• Synchronous and asynchronous exceptions
• Condition systems in Lisp
• Return to expression that signaled an exception by Continuable exceptions
• Testing normal and anticipated peak load conditions by Load testing using Software and Mechanical load testing
• Testing with certain amount of data by Volume testing
• Security testing for Confidentiality, Integrity, Authentication and Non-repudiation
• Testing capability to scale by Scalability testing
• Profiling to profile a program's behavior for optimization
• History, types, methods to use profiler
• Testing to determine the stability by performing Stress testing using Rationale, Field experience and Relationship to branch coverage with various Measures.
• Scale vertically vs. horizontally, Tradeoffs to make and designing for scalability
• To evaluate whether result of calculation is true by Sanity testing
• Describing the Exploratory testing with its Benefits and drawbacks
• Retesting the program for new bugs by Regression testing
• Testing the Reliability of application by Reliability, Recovery and failover testing
• Testing compliance to accessibility for disabled persons by Accessibility testing

Miscellaneous Testing Levels

• Testing System with coexistence with others by System integration testing
• Explaining Regression, Acceptance, Alpha & Beta testing

Non-functional testing

• Illustrating Software performance, load, Stability, Usability, Security testing and Internationalization and localization testing
• Explaining Destructive testing and its types

The Testing Process

• Testing in Traditional waterfall software development model
• Capability Maturity Model Integration with testing
• Testing in Agile or Extreme software development model
• Explaining a Sample testing cycle

Automated testing

• Automate the testing process
• Testing with variety of input arguments of public interfaces by Code-driven testing or Test-driven development
• Testing by a framework generating user interface events like keystrokes and mouse clicks, and observes the changes by Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing
• Quantifying what to test in automated tests
• Applying Framework approach in test automation
• Defining boundaries between automation framework and a testing tool
• Various types of Testing tools
• Measurement to be taken in software testing

Testing Artifacts

• Various records or artifacts generated during testing are Test plan, Traceability matrix, Test case, Test script, Test suite, Test data and Test harness