Diploma in Software Testing (DST)

• What is software testing?
• Why is testing necessary ?
• Testing principles
• What is SDLC and Type of models
• Verification and Validation

• What is testing?
• Why is testing necessary?
• Who does Testing?
• When to Start/Stop Testing?
• Verification & Validation
• Testing Life cycle and models
• Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control

• Manual Testing.
• Automation Testing.
• Functional Testing (Smoke, Sanity, Regression etc.)
• Non-Functional Testing (Performance, Scalability, Load& Security etc.)

• Black Box testing
• White Box testing
• Grey-Box Testing
• A Comparison of Testing Methods

• Unit Testing.
• Integration Testing.
• Functional Testing.
• System Testing.
• Regression Testing
• Stress Testing.
• Performance Testing.
• Usability Testing.
• Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Security Testing
• Portability Testing

• Test Planning (Scope, Resource, Requirement etc )
• Test Strategy (Approach, Level and Types of Testing etc.)
• Test Estimation
• Test progress monitoring and control
• Testing Tools and technique

• Introduction
• Defect life cycle
• Defect report
• Severity
• Priority
• Defect Distribution
• Defect clustering
• Defect Reporting

• Test Plan
• Test Scenario
• Test Cases
• RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix)

• Tools used for Automation Testing
• benefits and risks
• Introduction to QTP
• Quick Test Window
• Record and play
• Capture and playback principle
• Recording modes
• Object Repository, Spy
• Standard Check points

• Tools used for Automation Testing
• benefits and risks
• Introduction to QTP
• Quick Test Window
• Record and play
• Capture and playback principle
• Recording modes
• Object Repository, Spy
• Standard Check points

• Test design basics
• Test design activities
• Deliverables of the test design phase
• Condition and test cases
• Procedures and expected results
• Major areas of system testing
• Preparing the Test Design Specification
• A Systems test Specification template

• What is automation testing
• When to go for Automation
• Different Automation Tools (vendor & open source tools)
• Advantages of Automation
• Criteria for Automation
• Difference between Manual Testing & Automation Testing Process

• What is selenium Tool
• Use of selenium tool in automation
• Features of Selenium tool
• Differences between Selenium and other Tools

• Selenium IDE
• Selenium WebDriver
• Selenium Grid

• How to Create new java project
• How to create a new java class
• Running java class
• Viewing the results of java program

• Introduction to Java programming
• Data Types in Java
• Primitive Data types
• Declaring Variables
• Writing java program and running

1. Class

• What is class?
• What are fields and methods
• How to create object for the class
• How to access fields and methods in the class
• Constructors
• What is abstract, final class
• Variable Types (instance, local, static)

2. Polymorphism /Functions

• What is polymorphism?
• Method overloading
• Constructor overloading
• Passing arguments to methods
• Calling methods in the class
• Return values from method
• Return objects from method

3. Inheritance

• Why to do Inheritance?
• How to reuse the fields and methods of parent class
• Overriding fields and methods of parent class
• Single Inheritance
• Multi level Inheritance

4. Interfaces

• What is Interface?
• Difference between class and interface
• When to use Interfaces
• Abstract class

5. Encapsulation and abstraction

• What is hiding data?
• Using access specifiers public, private, protected, default
• Accessing the public methods outside the class
• Difference in accessing in same package / different package

6. Package

• What is package?
• How to create a package
• How to import package into a different class

7. Collection

• Use of collections
• Advantage of collection using Array
• How to add, remove, and insert value / elements into collections
• Using the collections like List, Set, ArrayList, HashTable Linked List

1.WebDriver

• Introduction to Web Driver?
• Configure Eclipse IDE (Adding selenium Libraries)
• Using Firefox Driver API
• Working with Different Elements and programming
• Text boxes, Checkbox, Radio Buttons, Links
• Selecting values from a Dropdown list
• Working with Table Elements
• Using Actions API
• Handling keyboard, mouse events ,Drag and drop
• Scrolling the window
• Screenshot
• Use of javascript Executor
• Scenarios

2. Handling Windows

• Handling alerts /pop-ups
• Handling windows alerts using AutoIT
• Handling Frames
• Handling multiple tabbed windows

3. XPATH and CSS in detail

• Using Xpath, DOM, CSS
• How to recognize dynamically changing elements
• Using Regular expressions

4.Configuring other Browsers

• Configure IE browser
• Configure Chrome browser
• Running scripts on different browsers
• Comparison of Selenium RC &WebDriver

• What is a Framework
• Types of Frameworks
• Modular framework
• Data Driven framework
• Keyword driven framework
• Hybrid framework

1.TestNG

• What is TestNG
• Create TestNG.xml file
• Integrate the Selenium Scripts
• Running scripts at xml, package level
• Reporting Results & Analyse
• Run Scripts from Multiple Browsers
• TestNG Annotations
• Tags in TestNG xml file
• Groups , Prioritizing
• Data provider annotation
• Use of properties file, Reporting Results

2. Data Driven Framework

• What is Data Driven Testing
• How to parameterize the data to the script using Excel
• Reading, writing data into Excel

3.DESIGN-PATTERN (POM MODEL)

1.GRID

• Introduction
• Remote-WebDriver
• Configuring hub, Configuring node
• Running scripts on remote computer

2. Auto IT Tool/Maven/Ant

• Installing & configuring
• Handling file upload operations
• Use of different scripts