WHAT IS SOFTWARE TESTING?
What software testing does, why teams need testers, and the seven testing principles to understand before going further.
Manual Testing Foundation
15 Series articles
ERROR, DEFECT AND FAILURE
Distinguish root cause, error, defect, failure, severity and priority through real situations in software projects.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE
The stages of the SDLC, what development models are for, and where testing enters the software life cycle.
AGILE AND WATERFALL
How Waterfall and Agile apply the SDLC to a project, and what a tester does in a Scrum sprint.
TESTING LEVELS
Distinguish component, integration, system and acceptance testing by their object, objective and participants.
TEST PLAN
How a Test Plan agrees testing scope, resources, schedule, risks and stop conditions.
READING AND CLARIFYING REQUIREMENTS
How testers read functional and UI requirements and ask clarifying questions before writing test cases.
TEST PROCESS
A test process moving from planning, monitoring, analysis, design, implementation and execution to completion in a sprint.
