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Essentials Training Courses

Dive into specific Essential topics with individual training courses

Our collection of Essential training courses offer a wide range of individual training sessions that can help:

Teams who need to adopt new testing approaches to react to changing demands
Practitioners of testing who have gaps in their knowledge that they want to explore more
Individuals who want to learn more about how testing works to better work with team members or clients

Our Courses

Delivered by skilled trainers with real world experience of testing and quality. Each training course offers in depth exploration into a specific topic in testing that is filled with discussions, activities and information. Each course delivers essential knowledge, skills and crucial hands on experience in testing.

Software Testing Essentials course

Software Testing Essentials

Length: 3 days

Working in the world of software testing can be challenging. There are so many variables within testing to consider. There are lots of different perspectives on what testing is, how to do testing, and how to define and measure quality. Not to mention working out what direction to take your testing career and what areas to specialise in.

The Software Testing Essentials training course has been designed to help you overcome these challenges, give you answers to your questions and grow an amazing career in testing. Taking this course will help you develop a concrete understanding of what testing is and how it works. Our goal is to help you develop your knowledge in the most important areas of testing and gain essential skills that you can start using straight away.

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Exploratory Testing 101 course

Exploratory Testing 101

Length: 1 day

Do you find yourself frustrated by the lack of challenge in your testing role, managing mountains of test cases, or increasingly aware of the bugs that slip through your net? Adopting Exploratory testing can help relieve these frustrations, but how do you go about executing ET in a way that is effective for both you and your team?

Exploratory testing 101 offers you the opportunity to engage in discussions and exercises to learn about:

Teams who need to adopt new testing approaches to react to changing demands
Practitioners of testing who have gaps in their knowledge that they want to explore more
Individuals who want to learn more about how testing works to better work with team members or clients
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Communication and Reporting 101 Course

Communication and Reporting 101

Length: 1 day

As testers, it's our job to not only learn about our products and projects but share that information with others to allow them to make informed decisions. However, communication and reporting techniques are skills that testers often forget to practise and improve. Sometimes a tester needs to ask themselves what’s the best way to communicate with a team, what style of note-taking works best for them and how do they report information clearly in a timely manner.

Communication and Reporting 101 is jam packed with examples and discussion points on how to:

Describe different forms of communication and why communication is important
Discuss the challenges surrounding communication and how to overcome them
Apply communication techniques to support your testing
Contrast different note taking styles and determine the right one for you
Explain your testing activities and what you have learnt during testing
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