Condensation of software testing tutorial here.

• Use library routines as much as possible.
• Use REGEX parsers to validate input, this forces you to clarify valid input.
• Library packages frequently come with userspace demo programs.
• Emphasize libraries to identify dependencies.

• Selenium
• QTP
• Jmeter
• Loadrunner
• TestLink
• Quality Center (ALM)

Verification of Application Under Test (AUT).

Types:

• functional
  • unit
  • integration
  • smoke
  • user acceptance (UAT)
  • interoperability
• non-functional
  • performance
  • endurance
  • load
  • volume
  • scalability
  • usability
• maintenance
  • regression
  • maintenance

Non-technical skills:

• analytical
• communication
• time management/organizational

Technical skills:

• database/SQL
• test management tools
• defect tracking tools
• automation tools

• Exhaustive testing is generally not possible.
• Defect clustering (most defects clustered in small number of modules)
• Pesticide paradox (same tests gradually become ineffective)
• Presence of defects
• Absence of error
• Early testing
• Testing is context dependent

• SDLC: Software development life cycle
• STLC: Software test life cycle
• V Model: combination of the above

Each phase has entry criteria and exit criteria:

• Requirements analysis
  • functional vs non-functional
• Test planning
• Test case development
• Environment setup
• Test execution
• Test cycle closure

• acceptance
• integration
• system
• unit
• white vs black box

Why?

• Manual Testing of all workflows, all fields, all negative scenarios is time and money consuming
• It is difficult to test for multilingual sites manually
• Automation does not require Human intervention. You can run automated test unattended (overnight)
• Automation increases the speed of test execution
• Automation helps increase Test Coverage
• Manual Testing can become boring and hence error-prone.

Stuff that can be automated:

• Smoke Testing
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Functional Testing
• Keyword Testing
• Regression Testing
• Data Driven Testing
• Black Box Testing

• isolate a section of code and verify its correctness

Coverage testing categories:

• statement
• decision
• branch
• condition
• finite state machine