Manual Testing

1) Overview on Software Quality and Testing

2) Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

a. Waterfall Model

b. Proto Type Model

c. Incremental Model

d. Spiral Model

f. V-Model

g. Agile Model

3) Application V/s. Product

4) Quality Assurance & Quality Control

5) Verification V/s. Validation

6) Static & Dynamic Testing

7) Review, Inspection & Walkthrough

8) Levels of Software Testing

a. Unit Testing

b. Integration Testing

c. System Testing

d. User Acceptance Testing

9) Types of Testing & Methods

a. White box testing

b. Black box testing

i. GUI testing

ii. Functional testing

a) Object properties testing

b) Input domain testing (ECP, BVA)

c) Error handling testing

d) Calculations testing

e) Database Testing

f) Cookies & Sessions testing

iii. Non-Functional testing

a) Performance testing (Load, Stress, Volume testing)

b) Security Testing

c) Recovery testing

d)Compatibility testing(OS,Browser,H/W Compatibilities)

e) Configuration Testing

f) Installation Testing

g) Sanitation Testing

iv. User Support testing

a) URL Testing

b) Links testing

c. Grey box testing

d. UAT (User Acceptance Testing)

10) Testing Terminology

a. Adhoc Testing

b. Monkey Testing

c. Exploratory Testing

d. Sanity & Smoke Testing

e. Re-Testing

f. Regression Testing

g. Penetration testing

h. Localization and I18N Testing

g. Concurrent testing

h. Big bank testing

i. Mutation testing

11) Software Quality Standards

a. ISO

b.CMM/CMMI/PCMM

c. Six Sigma

12) Test Metrics

13) Web Testing

14) Software Testing Life Cycle Process & Implementation (STLC)

15) Test Requirements gathering & Reviews

a. Functional specification Document (FSD)

b. Technical Design Document (TDD)

c. Use cases

16) Test Estimation

17) Test strategy Preparation

18) Test Plan Preparation

a) Test Plan Template

b) Test plan elements

19) Test Scenarios Identification

20) Test Cases Design

a) Types of Test Cases

b) Test Case Design Techniques

c) Test Cases Priority

d) Test Case document

21) Requirement Traceability Matrix

22) Preparing Test Data

23) Test Environments & Test bed

24) Test Execution

a) Levels of Test execution

b) Testing Phases

c) Configuration Management

25) Defect Reporting & Tracking

a) Defect Life Cycle

b) Defect Priority and Severity

c) Types of Defects

d) Defect Report template

e) Defect Reporting methods

26) Test Closure Activity

27) Test Reports

28) Agile Testing

29) Software Environments

30) Tester Roles & Responsibilities