What are the important things you should look if you want to get trained in QA?

Posted by admin - 13/11/09 at 06:11 am

A good QA training course should consist of a well rounded and wide range of modules that covers both manual and automated testing tools and techniques. It should provide a means of further enhancing your career path. QA online training should include important modules like Manual testing training, Software testing training, Quality center training and automated testing tools like LoadRunner, WinRunner, Test Director, Quick Test Professional and Silk test.

Since a QA training course can be taken up by even a beginner it is imperative that basics of software engineering and testing techniques are taught.

The important topics to look out for before joining a QA training course are –

• Introduction to Software Engineering
• Testing scopes
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) modules which includes stages like requirement and analysis, design, coding, testing, operations and maintenance. SDLC is a prototype of stages that developers follow while creating a product.
• Testing Techniques like Black Box Testing, White Box Testing and Grey Box Testing, planning and designing test cases.
• Automated testing tools like-
  • WinRunner – It is an automated functional GUI testing tool that allows a user to record and play back UI interactions as test scripts.
  • LoadRunner – It is an automated performance and load testing tool developed by Hewlett-Packard, it accurately measures and analyzes the system performance and its functionality.
  • Test Director – It is basically test management tool.
  • Quick Test Professional – It is a testing solution provided by Mercury that is used for functional and regression automation testing.
  • Silk Test – It is Segue Software’s offering for automated functional testing.  It supports the testing of client-server and browser-based applications, as well as standalone programs.
• Test Cases- It consists of a set of conditions or variable those are used to verify whether an application is working according to the predefined requirements.
• Quality Center – It is a Test management tool by Hewlett-Packard that is based on Client/Server technology. It incorporates modules like Requirements, Test plan, Test lab, Quality center defects etc.
• Should include basic concepts of Software Quality, software Quality Assurance and Technical reviews.

After the completion of the training one should be able to understand the total context of quality, understand the aspects of Software Testing, integrate quality practice in SDLC, define metrics to measure quality and implement practice that improve quality.

Apart from the above mentioned aspects one should also make sure that the Software QA training is provided on the current and widely used versions of automated tools. QA training should provided by top industry experts.

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