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Quality Assurance

The 4-week course teaches key topics in software quality assurance through theory and practical labs. Students will learn testing objectives, processes, strategies and methodologies. The course covers test case creation, test execution, defect management, test automation, and security and performance testing. To complete the course, students must attend 90% of classes, receive average grades of 80% on assignments and 60% on assessments, and demonstrate understanding of all concepts to the tutor. The course details include weekly topics on QA phases, programming basics, automation testing, databases, performance testing, and security testing.

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Quality Assurance

The 4-week course teaches key topics in software quality assurance through theory and practical labs. Students will learn testing objectives, processes, strategies and methodologies. The course covers test case creation, test execution, defect management, test automation, and security and performance testing. To complete the course, students must attend 90% of classes, receive average grades of 80% on assignments and 60% on assessments, and demonstrate understanding of all concepts to the tutor. The course details include weekly topics on QA phases, programming basics, automation testing, databases, performance testing, and security testing.

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Quality Assurance (QA)

Nature of the Course: Theory + Practical


Total Hours per Day: 2 Hours
Course Duration: 4 Weeks

Course Summary
The course is structured to assist students in learning key topics in Software
Quality Assurance, such as software testing objectives, processes, criteria,
strategies, and methodologies. The course also covers subjects like how to
create test cases and test data, how to execute testing operations, how to
manage software problems and defects, software test automation using real-
world examples, and how to perform software security and performance
testing.

Completion Criteria
After fulfilling all of the following criteria, the student will be deemed to have
finished the Module:
1. Has attended 90% of all classes held.
2. Has received an average grade of 80% on all assignments
3. Has received an average of 60% in assessments.
4. The tutor believes the student has grasped all of the concepts and is
ready to go on to the next module.

Required Text Books


1. Sagar Naik and Piyu Tripathy, “Software Testing and Quality
Assurance”, Wiley.
2. Cem Kaner, Jack Falk and H.Q. Nguyen, “Testing Computer
Software”, Wiley.

Prerequisites
• Fundamental understanding of programming, bits/bytes, procedures,
classes, and computer architecture. It's absolutely acceptable if you
only have a theoretical understanding of programming, but you should
be certain about what programming is and what you intend to gain
from this session.
• If you are only interested in theory and have no interest/patience in
spending at least 10 hours every week throughout the duration of the
course, then this course might not be for you.
• If you have absolutely no idea about programming or do not see
yourself doing programming in the next six -odd months, then this
class may not be for you.

Course Details
WEEK 1
INTRODUCTION TO QUALITY ASSURANCE
• Importance of QA / QA as a career
• Difference between Project and Product
• Difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control
• Manual and Automated Testing
• Roles and Responsibilities of Business Analyst, Developers,
Architects, Project Managers, Quality Assurance.
• Test Team (QA Manager, QA Lead, QA Engineer, Release Engineer

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLES (SDLC)


• Stages of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Testing Life Cycles
• Types of Testing
• Test Platforms (Development, QC, UAT, Production)
• Defects (Identification, Logging, Life Cycle Priority)
• Defect Life Cycle

WEEK 2
QUALITY ASSURANCE PHASES
• Feature Requirement Analysis
• Test Plan
• Test Scenario
• Test Cases
• Test Data
• Test Script
• Decision Table
• Test Result
• QA Process Cycle
PYTHON PROGRAMMING BASICS
• Comment in Python
• Main Function
• Function Definition and Function Call
• If-Else, For Loop
• Indent
• Assert

AUTOMATION TESTING – BASICS


• Introduction to Automation Testing
• What is Automation Testing
• Benefits of Automation Testing
• Introduction to Selenium
• XPath, its types and Examples
• Web Driver and its Action

WEEK 3
AUTOMATION TESTING – ADVANCED
• Introduction to Automation Framework
• Accessing Multi-URL via Automation
• Read Input Parameters from Excel
• Importing Data from Web (Web Scraping)
• Write Web Data to Excel
• Read Keyword and XPath from Excel File
• Write Automation Test Result to Excel File

TEST SCRIPT, DATABASE AND SQL – BASICS


• Importance of SQL in Quality Assurance
• Introduction to Database
• Database Verification and Validation
• MySQL Database, Comparison with Popular Databases: Oracle, MS
SQL Server, IBM DB2.
• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Data Definition Language (DDL)
• Data Manipulation Language (DML)
• Introduction to Tables, Rows, Columns
• Foreign Keys, Primary Key and Unique Key
• DDL and DML, Select, Update, Delete and Insert into Statements
WEEK 4
PERFORMANCE TEST – BASICS
• Performance Testing and its Importance in QA
• Types of Performance Testing
• API Testing with GET, POST, Delete, and PUT Methods
• Common Performance Problems
• Performance Testing Process
• Example Performance Test Cases
• Performance Test Using JMeter
• Performance Test report generation

SECURITY TEST – BASICS


• Security Testing and its Importance in QA
• Types of Security Testing
• Authentication and Authorization
• Example Test Scenarios for Security Testing
• Methodologies/ Approach / Techniques for Security Testing
• SQL Injection and XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

LABS
• Test Scenario Preparation
• Test Case Preparation
• Test Data Preparation
• Decision Table Preparation
• BDD Examples Practice
• Test Script Preparation (SQL)
• Browsing Web via Automation
• Data Validation via Automation
• Web Scraping using Selenium
• Accessing Multiple URLs using Selenium
• Create Keyword Driven Automation Framework
• Create Automation Test Result in Excel
• Performance Test using JMeter
Learning Outcomes
• Learn how to create and implement a software quality assurance plan
for all software initiatives.
• How to form a software quality assurance team and manage it.
• How to monitor and maintain quality, create and maintain relevant
metrics.
• Learn how to implement a software quality assurance program in an
agile context including iterative and incremental development.

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