Creating Software Tests

Creating Software Tests

• start the course
• describe software testing and its benefits and outline metrics for software quality
• describe the principal components of computer systems
• distinguish between compiled and interpreted programming languages, describe data types, and analyze simple algorithms
• analyze simple algorithms and step through corresponding flowcharts and code
• describe sequential and iterative software development models such as the waterfall, agile, and spiral model
• describe and contrast the product and project life cycles
• describe and contrast manual and automated testing
• describe black box testing
• describe white box testing and contrast it with black box testing
• use Microsoft Test Manager
• describe unit tests and the goal of unit testing
• describe integration testing
• describe regression testing
• use web performance and load tests in Visual Studio
• describe usability, accessibility, and localization tests
• describe performance and stress tests
• describe user requirements, their importance in relation to testing, and describe user requirement documents including use case diagrams and user stories
• describe test-driven development
• describe testing hooks and provide examples
• describe application lifecycle management in the context of an agile project
• describe briefly ALM tools in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server including PowerPoint Storyboarding, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog/team capacity, Task board, Request Feedback, and Microsoft Feedback client tools
• describe how testing strategy is determined and describe the different scopes that test plans may have
• describe code coverage and demonstrate how it can be analyzed in Visual Studio
• describe software features and feature testing and describe exploratory testing, usability testing, and UI testing in the context of feature testing
• describe test case design and considerations including scope and detail, and the use of boundary conditions and validity tests
• design software tests

Managing, Troubleshooting, and Automating Software Tests

Managing, Troubleshooting, and Automating Software Tests

• start the course
• define process guidance and describe the process template in Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• describe phases, and internal and external milestones
• describe entry and exit criteria and sign-offs for software development phases
• describe the agile development process and the role of documentation and feedback in the process
• describe the Scrum agile implementation
• describe the Kanban management process
• describe the XP agile implementation
• describe the importance of communication in agile projects, how it occurs for co-located teams, and describe the challenges and advantages of working with distributed teams
• describe the scrum of scrums feature
• describe reporting in agile projects
• describe burndown charts and show how to access burndown reports in Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• describe the overview manual, automated and distributed tests, and how to run them
• describe the ways in which you can run tests in Microsoft Visual Studio, and use one or more of these methods
• describe how to use a test plan to run automated tests in Microsoft Test Manager
• describe the settings used when logging bugs
• describe the benefits of IntelliTrace and demonstrate how to enable and use IntelliTrace in Visual Studio to log test data
• describe how triage can be used to prioritize a list of bugs
• describe the steps to verify a bug fix
• describe the different bug states and how bugs are resolved, closed or re-activated
• describe how bug status and summary reports are used to provide information on bugs
• describe software test automation
• describe and demonstrate how and why you would want to associate an automated test with a test case in Visual Studio
• describe and demonstrate how to use assertions in code using Visual Studio
• demonstrate how to add comments to test steps in Microsoft Test Runner
• describe the types of errors that can occur in tests and how to deal with them
• define virtual machines and describe how they can be used for efficient testing using different operating systems
• describe the function of a smoke test
• describe and implement the steps to generate a BVT in Visual Studio
• describe how lab environments are managed for testing
• perform software test management tasks