Start and Develop a Successful Career in Software Testing (Udemy.com)
Learn about Software Testing Certifications, Quality Assurance, Test Design, Agile Testing, requirements, and Test Cases
Created by: Magdy Hanna, Ph.D.
Last updated November 2018
What you will learn
- Understand the different software development lifecycles, Waterfall, Agile, etc.
- Understand the goals and objectives of software testing
- Understand the essential concepts of software testing including Requirements, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Sets, User Stories, and Use Cases
- Learn a simple methods to test software
- Understand when to perform ad hoc/exploratory testing as opposed to formal testing
- Understand the difference between different testing certifications
- How to prepare for an interview for a job in software testing
How it compares
Against the other 281 rated Udemy courses in Software Testing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 12% of them
- Reviews180#227 of 282 by number of reviews
- Length10 hourslonger than 64% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2018earlier than 91% of them
Course Description
This course is intended for everyone who is interested in starting a successful career in software testing as well as those who are already in the software testing field for few years. The courses use a very simple approach to introduce you to the essential concepts and techniques for software testing. Concepts covered in the course are software requirements, user stories, test cases, test scenarios, and test sets. The course also will discuss the difference between quality assurance and testing. The course emphasizes defect prevention as the most effective way to ensure high quality software. You will learn everything you need to become an effective tester.
Here what you will learn in this course:
Whether you have been doing testing for few years or you have not done any testing job before, You can not afford to miss this course. I have been teaching people around the world for the last 40 years on how to become effective test professionals. This course gives you all that you need to start a career in software testing and to continue to develop that career. The courses teaches you a very simple test process that you can not find in any book or any other course. It is a process that I taught to over 100,000 people in at least 500 companies and government agencies. This course is not a typical Udemy course because you will learn by doing. You will have a chance to practice on the steps of the process. When you learn this process, you can immediately use it in your current project if you already have a job or you can use it to do the best in any interview for a software testing job. The course will also help you decide if you want to be certified or not and what the best certification for you is. Finally, the course will give you good guidance to do a very effective interview. Here is some of what you will learn in the course. There is so much to list so, I am not listing everything.
- Understand the difference between quality assurance and testing
- Learn how to become a real QA professional while you are performing your testing job
- Learn different development lifecyles such as the traditional waterfall model, the V-Model, the RAD approach, and the agile framework
- Get a good understanding of the Scrum methodology
- Learn how to be effective test professional in an agile project
- Learn how to put together your testing objective to become a successful test professional
- Gain a good understanding of functional requirements and quality requirements
- Learn how to make sure that requirements are testable to be able to design test cases
- Understand User Stories for agile projects
- Understand Use Cases
- Learn how to ask relevant question to gain better understanding of requirements
- Learn How to breakdown requirement, user stories to a number of scenarios
- Learn how to come up with negative scenarios for negative testing
- Learn how to validate your scenarios with business analysts, developers and product owners
- Learn a very simple risk based testing methods based on your scenarios and select the most important scenarios to test
- Understand the critical components of a test case
- Learn how to build test cases based on your scenarios
- Learn how to group test cases to test sets
- Learn about the different certifications for software tester and how you choose among them
- Get hints and guidance to do a very effect interview and come ac cross as the most qualified candidate for the job
Topics to be Covered
- The Importance and the Future of Software Testing
- Software Testing Vs. Software Quality Assurance
- Software Development Lifecycles
- Software Testing Concepts
- Scrum methodology
- The Agile Framework
- The Rapid Application Development Model (RAD)
- The V-Model
- The Waterfall Model
- Software Testing Concepts
- Functional requirements
- Quality requirements
- Testable requirements
- User Stories
- Use Cases
- Scenarios
- Test Cases, Test Sets, Test Scripts
- Test Design
- Positive and Negative Testing
- Risk-Based Testing
- Preparing for interview
- Software Testing Certifications
- ISTQB Certification
- IIST Certifications
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
180 Reviews
Magdy Hanna, Ph.D.
Dr. Hanna is a recognized educator, speaker, and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His distinguished classes have been highly rated by software professionals. His experience with software goes back to the mid 1970's, when he worked as a developer and then moved through all roles including project manager and testing and QA manager. Over the last forty-five years, Dr. Hanna has worked and trained in all aspects and capacities of software projects and processes. As the CEO and Senior Instructor at IIST, he has trained over 50,000 professionals around the world over the last 20 years. He also worked as a professor of software engineering for 12 years where he taught master level courses in software engineering and quality assurance.
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Reviews
By Joseph DeMarco on 8/30/2021
Solid course following the foundations of a software testing career. Has some good insight into test process and design. There's not a lot of info or strategies on pushing back against POs or Devs . who wish to not follow the ideas put in place. Best thing I've found is to simply pitch your case to them, prove it's worth whenever you can, and sometimes they come around, sometimes you have to adapt to them. All in all the course was decent.
By Adam Brown on 3/23/2020
Know feel equipped in the fundamentals and can push fwd with my testing to push to another level
By Ugne Zal on 12/22/2019
Thank you for the courses. As per my understanding, the courses were very clear (maybe in some cases there were too much details on the basic things). Additionally, I think that presenter is a professional who helped to understand all this begging course very easily!
By Kessia Eugene on 10/29/2019
I'm already a bit familiar with the material so it felt like the professor was taking way to much time to explain simple terms. Plus The first 13 slides were about the outline for this course. there were outlines about outlines. I needed to move the curser forward because professor was taking too much time.
By Idongesit Idiong on 5/18/2019
This course is a MUST for anyone doing software testing. I have been working as a Test Engineer for more than 10years, and took this course as a refresher, but it turns out to be a career starter. The scenario test design approach is excellent. Please consider doing follow up to this course.Thank you.
By Elizabeth Contreras on 2/6/2019
This is one of the best Software Testing courses I have taken. It is clear that the instructor has a lot of real experience; he explains the concepts and metodologies in a very simple way. If you are new in testing, this course will be a great start. For experienced testers, this course it's a good refresher on the basic concepts, and it helps to improve the testing process.
By Emmanuel Okoro on 2/3/2019
Currently, I am curious, somewhat scared, and not sure if this is what I want to do as an aspiring new IT person changing career. The course so far, has captured my attention and I am eager to continue the training.
By Jolanta Szmanda on 10/2/2018
Instructor took too much time (like over 1h of video lecture) on his introduction, why we need quality, what we will learn in this course. Lectures should have been broken down into smaller pieces, that way if he had to 'clear his throat', he could easily rerecord it. (it's disgusting to have to listen to it so many times). I'm on the verge of asking for my money back (first time ever after buying 30+ classes on udemy !!!!)
By Gabrielius Čaplinskas on 8/31/2018
Watched half of the course. The course seems to be by a man who knows what he is talking about, has competence and real expertise in the field and this motivates to move on. First part (1/3rd) is more about different software development lifecycles/methodologies and role/purpose of testing in general and in these different contexts. So far, I like it - a very good refresher of software development and how (and why) different methodologies came about up to the modern times with Agile/Scrum.
By Phillip C Wager on 8/31/2018
I feel the course is a good basic introduction to the software testing environment. The history of software development is given, leading up to the Agile development that is commonly used today. Overall concepts of software requirements documentation and developed are connected with proper testing and when testing professionals should become involved in the process. Principles of test design are laid out in a general common-sense fashion with examples given to illustrate the basic concepts. I found the course very informative, though I believe I could have learned the same amount with a more condensed presentation. Overall I am glad I took this course. More instruction is definitely required to develop a proficiency in this subject.
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Overall Score : 84 / 100






