Software Testing Foundations: Testing throughout the Software Life Cycle

Software Testing Foundations: Testing throughout the Software Life Cycle

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

Overview/Description
Software testing ensures that software is reliable and does the job it was designed to do. It's a crucial part of software development. In this course, you'll learn about testing and its objectives, and software testing principles and processes. The course also covers the psychology and ethics of testing, and testing throughout the software life cycle – test types for different software models, test levels, and test types. This course is one of a series intended to align with the Certified Tester Foundations Level Syllabus (the 'Syllabus'). The authors, Thomas Muller (chair) and Debra Friedenberg, and the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®) are the source and copyright owners of the Syllabus. The course is intended to help learners prepare for the Foundation Certificate in Software Testing exam (BH0-010), which is provided by the Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB), a globally-recognized testing body providing software testing certification. SkillSoft makes no claim to any approval or endorsement of this course by any of the aforementioned parties or other third party.

Target Audience
Software developers, technical and user acceptance testers, test analysts, test engineers, test consultants, test managers, project managers, and quality managers; anyone with an interest in testing

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.7

Lesson Objectives

Software Testing Foundations: Testing throughout the Software Life Cycle

start the course

describe why software testing is necessary

describe what software testing involves

describe how to meet a test objective and use defects to plan tests effectively

describe the first three general principles of software testing relating to presence of defects, impossibility of exhaustive testing, and error of confusing absence of errors with product fit

describe the last four applied software testing principles relating to early testing, defect clustering, pesticide paradox, and context dependency

describe test planning and control activities

describe test analysis and design activities

describe test implementation and execution activities

describe evaluation of exit criteria and test closure activities

describe the psychological considerations and levels of independence related to software testing

describe the importance of good communication for software testing tasks

describe the code of ethics related to software testing

describe the types of tests associated with the V-model

describe the types of tests associated with iterative-incremental models, including rapid application development (RAD)

describe component testing

describe integration testing

describe system testing

describe acceptance testing

describe the functional software testing type

describe the nonfunctional software testing type

describe the structural testing type

describe change-based testing, including regression testing

describe maintenance testing

identify an appropriate software testing strategy

Course Number:
sd_sotf_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Beginner