Quality Assurance

This lesson provides an overview of software testing, explaining its significance in the software development lifecycle. It covers the fundamental concepts, types, and levels of testing, highlighting the role of testing in ensuring software quality and reliability.

This lesson delves into the core objectives of software testing, such as ensuring software meets its requirements, identifying defects, and enhancing product quality. It also outlines the fundamental principles of testing, including the necessity of early testing, defect clustering, pesticide paradox, and the context-driven nature of testing.

In this lesson, students learn about the crucial process of test planning, which involves defining the scope, approach, resources, and schedule for testing activities.

It covers the creation of a comprehensive test plan document that outlines test objectives, strategies, criteria for success, and risk management.

This lesson focuses on the principles and techniques of designing effective test cases. Students will learn about different test design techniques, including boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, state transition testing, and decision table testing.

This lesson covers the execution phase of testing, where designed test cases are run to identify defects. It explains the process of logging, tracking, and managing defects using defect-tracking tools.