Foundations of Agile Software Testing

Agile Software Testing

What you’ll learn

Foundations of Agile Software Testing

Students will be able to articulate the major concepts in Agile Software Testing
Students will learn the objectives of testing, the testing lifecycles for each methodology, and what the Agile TCOE is and its functions.
Students will learn the testing roles, activities, and artifacts used in Agile teams
Students will learn the different testing phases and testing types
Students will learn high-level test planning and test execution in agile projects
Students will learn about test metrics and reporting in agile projects
Students will learn common tools used in testing

Requirements

Some basic exposure to software testing would be helpful

Description

The Foundations of Agile Software Testing course presents an introductory overview of agile software testing and compares waterfall, iterative and agile methodologies. This course introduces students to the high-level concepts of agile software testing including testing objectives and terminology, testing lifecycle, roles, activities and artifacts, test phases and types, agile acceptance criteria and test cases, agile estimation, sprint test planning and execution, defect management, agile test metrics, and testing tools.

This course is divided into 9 sections and includes review quizzes covering each section. Downloadable hand-outs are available for several lectures to be used as reference material after the course.

Our goal is to create courses that are very practical so that you can use what you have learned in your day-to-day project work in agile teams.