Software Testing Essentials Live! is a three-day online course brought to you by Ministry of Testing Essentials. This training course is designed to help you develop in-demand skills and essential software testing knowledge you need to advance your testing career. You'll be introduced to all the key aspects of software testing and explore them with hands-on activities to build a portfolio of work that will show off your newly acquired skills and demonstrate your readiness for the next chapter in your career.
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Overview and Day One
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Why You Should Take This Course
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 Live online 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.
Software Testing Essentials Live is delivered online by skilled trainers who are accomplished experts in testing and quality. This course is taught using modern learner-centred methods that allow you to build core software testing competencies through active, collaborative sessions with practical hands-on experiences.
Day One
Software Testing Essentials Live is an experiential, hands-on online class that gives you the chance to practise testing a software product with other online learners. So to kick start the course, we’ll introduce you to a bespoke software product we’ve designed for you to explore. We’ll be using this software product over the three days to teach you the essentials of software testing, experiencing the different kinds of testing activities first hand. While we also teach and share stories about the value, importance and impact of each activity.
Additionally, during the day we will explore what testing is, examine what quality is, and investigate the relationship that quality and testing have with risks. We’ll end day one exploring questions and the part they play within testing.
Takeaways
- Use terms that relate specifically to software development and testing
- Describe what the purpose of software testing is
- Identify skills and knowledge a tester needs to succeed in software development
- Assess the product quality characteristics that are most important for your team and in your context
- Critique an idea or product to discover risks using different activities
- Use a range of questioning techniques to test requirements
- Carry out a basic exploratory testing session using charters
- Use heuristics to generate test ideas
- Discover problems and issues using oracles
- Apply different note-taking approaches to different testing scenarios
- Discuss some of the challenges surrounding communication and how to overcome them
- Discuss some of the challenges surrounding communication and how to overcome them
Prerequisites
Once you’ve signed up we’ll get in touch to learn a little more about your expectations for the course and send you setup instructions. This will help you get ready for the live online training and get all those technical issues out of the way before we start.
We will also provide you with online self-paced learning materials to study prior to the start of the course to give you the necessary knowledge needed to make the most of the live 3-day online course and hit the ground running!
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Day Two
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During day two, we’ll continue working with our software product to apply what we learn about testing in a practical sense.
For the first part of day two, we’ll examine the components of planning your testing, covering; the different approaches to testing, generating test ideas and structuring your testing.
In the second part of the day, we’ll move onto applying different kinds of testing techniques.
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Day Three
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The key goal for day three relates to the outputs and outcomes of testing as well as how to communicate and report your testing.
The start of the day will focus on how to take good testing notes to capture information about your testing and what you discovered as you tested. We’ll examine how to explain software testing to others, advocate your views on testing and influence good testing in your projects.
After that, we’ll explore the reporting side of testing - displaying various measures of your perception of the software’s quality from your testing. Finally, to end the course, we’ll help you develop your own testing portfolio to help you show your testing knowledge and skills, and your readiness for growing in your testing career.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is This Course Right for Me?
Software Testing Essentials Live has been designed for anyone looking to improve their testing by taking a short, thorough, hands-on training course. Whether you’re looking for a career change, are a new or aspiring tester, or simply looking to fill in gaps in your knowledge and skills, this online course is for you.
Do I need to know or have done any testing beforehand?
Simply put, no. You don’t need to have had any previous experience in software testing. The Software Testing Essentials course is focused on building foundation knowledge and skills in essential areas of testing. You will be supported by skilled instructors with professional testing experience who will introduce you to the craft of testing in an accessible and supportive format.
What Do I Need For This Online Course?
You’ll need a stable internet connection, headphones and a microphone, a free Ministry of Testing Club Members account, and plenty of paper and pens to take lots of notes.
Practically, we ask that you bring your enthusiasm to learn and your inquisitive mind.
I still have credit with MoT, how can I use it?
If you have credit with Ministry of Testing and would like to use it to purchase a ticket for Software Testing Essentials Live, get in touch with us via email at masters@ministryoftesting.com with your previous booking details and we will send you a booking link.