Explore part of chapter 4 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus covering categories of test techniques, focusing on white-box and black-box testing techniques. One of these is equivalence partitioning, applied to derive appropriate test cases from requirements. In this 17-video course, learn to define test cases by applying equivalence partitioning. Examine boundary value analysis to develop appropriate test cases and define these by applying boundary value analysis, given a set of requirements. You will learn about decision-table testing to derive and define test cases from requirements and when to apply state transition testing, to derive appropriate test cases from requirements and define test cases by applying it. Identify the process involved in deriving test cases from a use case, and define test cases when given a specific use case and statement testing and coverage. Next, explore how to achieve statement coverage, identify decision testing and coverage, and achieve decision coverage in software source code. Then examine benefits of white-box testing. A final exercise deals with black-box and white-box testing techniques.

In this 13-video course, learners explore part of chapter 1 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus, encompassing the fundamentals of testing, its importance, and general testing principles. Learn what software testing is and its overall role in the development process. Examine objectives for any test project and roles played by testing and debugging in software development, and how they differ. Learn benefits of performing software testing and how it can lead to a successful product. Look at the relationship between testing and quality assurance and their role in developing higher quality products. Learn about software problems, what errors, defects, and failures are and distinguish between them, their root causes, and effects. Review the seven testing principles: 1 and 2, on the presence of defects and the reality of exhaustive testing; 3 and 4, on early testing and defect clustering; 5 and 6, on the pesticide paradox and context dependency; and 7, the error absence fallacy. The concluding exercise deals with major reasons for testing and its importance in software development.

In this 10-video course, you will explore part of chapter 5 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus, which focuses on risk and defect management. Learners will recognize how the likelihood and impact of a negative event defines the risk level. Examine the risk associated with a work product-the possibility that a specific work product, for example, a system or test, may fail to satisfy legitimate requirements of its users and/or stakeholders. Also, project risks, which involve situations that if they were to occur, may have a negative impact on a project's ability to achieve its objectives. Explore product risk analysis, and how its results may influence the testing process. Learners examine risk-based testing, used to reduce the levels of product risk; the defect management rationale; how defects found during testing are logged; and objectives of defect reporting. Finally, explore contents of defect reports. In the concluding exercise, you will describe how risk and defect management are used to manage a test project effectively.

In this 18-video course, explore the remainder of chapter 3 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus, which covers static testing and related review process, types, and techniques. Begin by looking at the static testing techniques available and work products that can be examined with static testing. Examine various benefits provided by performing static testing in the software development lifecycle. Learn how to perform a review on source code and requirements specification. Understand the differences between static and dynamic testing techniques in respect to objectives, types of defects, and roles of the techniques used. Learners will examine the work product review process and responsibilities for roles associated with a formal review. You will identify attributes associated with various reviews: informal, walkthrough, technical, and inspection reviews. Then view the various individual review techniques for ad hoc, checklist-based, scenario-based, role-based, and perspective-based review types. Next, examine the organizational factors that can help provide a successful review outcome. A final exercise reviews static testing.

In this 16-video course. explore part of chapter 5 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus, which covers test management, including test organization, planning, and estimating. Begin with the fundamentals of independent testing, including the benefits and weaknesses associated with test independence. You will learn how to identify the roles of the test manager and tester in the testing process. Then look at test plan documentation, its purpose, and its content. Learn about test planning activities, various test strategies, and identify the test approach and how it differs from test strategy. Explore how to choose the appropriate entry and exit criteria for software testing. Then examine the test execution schedule, the order in which test suites are executed. Recognize the factors that affect the test effort and common techniques employed in the estimation of test-related effort. In the closing exercise, learners will describe how tests are organized, documented, and estimated.

During this 13-video course, learners will explore part of chapter 5 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus, which covers test monitoring and control and configuration management. Begin by looking at the purpose of test monitoring and how it is applied to control the test process effectively. You will then consider the test metrics collected during testing activities, in order to make some type of assessment and the purpose and content of test reports and how they are tailored to audiences. This leads to looking at test progress and test summary reports. Learners then explore why configuration management is so important to the integrity of the testing process and how test item management is conducted as part of that process. Examine how testware is controlled and managed to ensure the integrity of the testing process, and learn how to identify testware and test items that are associated with testing a component or system. The concluding exercise focuses on the test monitor and control process.

Continue exploring chapter 1 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus in this 16-video course, encompassing the fundamentals of testing relating to the test process and the psychology of testing. First, learners examine how context affects the test process, then the main groups of test activities that make up that process. Explore activities associated with test planning, monitoring, and control phases, and the test analysis and design phases. Also, the test implementation, execution, and completion phases of the process. You will explore various test work products created as part of the test process, including planning, monitoring, analysis, and design work products, test implementation products, and execution and completion products. Next, learn the importance of establishing and maintaining traceability between elements of the test basis and work products throughout the test process; the psychological factors influencing test success; effective communication skills needed between testers and managers; and how to differentiate between the mindset required for both testers and developers. An exercise on various phases of the test process concludes this course.

In this 17-video course, explore part of chapter 6 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus, which focuses on test tool concepts, including considerations, classifications, test automation, and effective use. First, take an overview of the tools used to support testing activities. Next, learners look at the classifications of test tools and understanding their purpose. Then you will examine various tools for specific tasks: managing tests and testware; static testing; test design and implementation; test execution and logging; performance measurement and dynamic analysis; and tools for special testing requirements. Learn about benefits of test automation and its associated risks, and examine the special considerations associated with test execution tools and test management tools. Next, explore the main principles of test tool selection, study objectives for using pilot projects to introduce new test tools, and take a look at the success factors related to evaluating, implementing, deploying, and supporting test tools. To conclude the course, an exercise involves identifying and classifying test tools and their effective use.

Learners explore the remainder of chapter 3 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus in this 11-video course, which covers static testing and related review process, types, and techniques. Begin by examining the purpose of performing functional testing and look at characteristics evaluated by functional testing. This leads into nonfunctional testing, its purpose, and the characteristics it evaluates. Delve into the purpose of performing white-box testing and identify the characteristics that this testing evaluates. Then move into change-related testing: the purposes of performing both confirmation and regression testing, as well as characteristics each test type evaluates. Take a look at test types and test levels, and see that any of the test types may be performed at any test level. Examine the purpose and objectives of performing maintenance testing, its scope considerations, and the reasons that may trigger the need for performing maintenance testing. Finally, examine the role played by impact analysis in maintenance testing. A concluding exercise covers types of tests and maintenance testing.

In this 13-video course, explore part of chapter 2 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus on testing and its relevance to the Software Development Lifecycle. Begin by looking at relationships between development and test activities in the sequential development model and in the incremental and iterative development model. Learners will begin to understand the importance of selecting the software development lifecycle model based on the project and product context, and learn good testing characteristics applicable to any lifecycle model. Then examine different test levels in software development and the various attributes that characterize each level. Learn the various attributes associated with component integration testing, system integration testing, and system testing, including objectives, test basis, and objects, defects and failures, approaches and responsibilities. Look at various forms of acceptance testing, including user, operational, contractual, and regulatory, as well as alpha and beta testing, and various attributes, including objectives, test basis, and objects, defects, and failures, approaches, and responsibilities. A concluding exercise assesses knowledge of development models and test levels.

In this 10-video course, you will explore part of chapter 4 from the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level 2018 certification exam syllabus, covering categories of test techniques, with a primary focus on experience-based test techniques. Start by learning how to identify the factors that influence which test technique to use. The purpose of a test technique is to help identify test conditions, test cases, and test data. Then learners will examine black-box, white-box, and experience-based test techniques and their characteristics. Explore what each of those experience-based testing techniques are, and identify their common characteristics, by focusing on error guessing, exploratory testing, and checklist-based testing and the benefits they provide when testing a software product. In the final tutorial of this course, look at exploratory testing, performing tests on software based on the tester's unique domain-based experience. To conclude the course, an exercise covers describing various testing techniques available in the experience-based testing category.