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This course is intended for everyone who is interested in starting a successful career in software testing as well as those who are already in the software testing field for few years. The courses use a very simple approach to introduce you to the essential concepts and techniques for software testing. Concepts covered in the course are software requirements, user stories, test cases, test scenarios, and test sets. The course also will discuss the difference between quality assurance and testing. The course emphasizes defect prevention as the most effective way to ensure high quality software. You will learn everything you need to become an effective tester. Here what you will learn in this course: Whether you have been doing testing for few years or you have not done any testing job before, You can not afford to miss this course. I have been teaching people around the world for the last 40 years on how to become effective test professionals. This course gives you all that you need to start a career in software testing and to continue to develop that career. The courses teaches you a very simple test process that you can not find in any book or any other course. It is a process that I taught to over 100,000 people in at least 500 companies and government agencies. This course is not a typical Udemy course because you will learn by doing. You will have a chance to practice on the steps of the process. When you learn this process, you can immediately use it in your current project if you already have a job or you can use it to do the best in any interview for a software testing job. The course will also help you decide if you want to be certified or not and what the best certification for you is. Finally, the course will give you good guidance to do a very effective interview. Here is some of what you will learn in the course. There is so much to list so, I am not listing everything. Understand the difference between quality assurance and testingLearn how to become a real QA professional while you are performing your testing jobLearn different development lifecyles such as the traditional waterfall model, the V-Model, the RAD approach, and the agile frameworkGet a good understanding of the Scrum methodologyLearn how to be effective test professional in an agile projectLearn how to put together your testing objective to become a successful test professionalGain a good understanding of functional requirements and quality requirementsLearn how to make sure that requirements are testable to be able to design test casesUnderstand User Stories for agile projectsUnderstand Use Cases Learn how to ask relevant question to gain better understanding of requirementsLearn How to breakdown requirement, user stories to a number of scenariosLearn how to come up with negative scenarios for negative testingLearn how to validate your scenarios with business analysts, developers and product ownersLearn a very simple risk based testing methods based on your scenarios and select the most important scenarios to testUnderstand the critical components of a test caseLearn how to build test cases based on your scenariosLearn how to group test cases to test setsLearn about the different certifications for software tester and how you choose among themGet hints and guidance to do a very effect interview and come ac cross as the most qualified candidate for the job Topics to be Covered The Importance and the Future of Software TestingSoftware Testing Vs. Software Quality AssuranceSoftware Development LifecyclesSoftware Testing Concepts Scrum methodologyThe Agile FrameworkThe Rapid Application Development Model (RAD)The V-ModelThe Waterfall ModelSoftware Testing ConceptsFunctional requirementsQuality requirementsTestable requirementsUser StoriesUse CasesScenariosTest Cases, Test Sets, Test ScriptsTest DesignPositive and Negative TestingRisk-Based TestingPreparing for interviewSoftware Testing CertificationsISTQB CertificationIIST Certifications

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