This document provides an overview of manual and automated software testing concepts and techniques. It discusses the software development lifecycle, types of testing, test methodologies, test case design, requirements tracing, test planning, defect management, and automation tools like QTP. It also introduces SQL and relational database concepts like queries, functions, joins, and subqueries. Finally, it covers PL/SQL scripting.

1. Manual Testing
Software Development lifecycle.
Software Testing types
Levels of Testing
Test cycle
Testing Methodologies
Test Case
Test case design techniques
STLC
Requirement Traceability Matrix
Test Plan
Defect Life Cycle
Defect Management
Defect tracking

2. Automation - QTP
VB Script
QTP Overview
Modes of Recording
Checkpoints
Actions
Object Repository
Descriptive Programming
Object Identification
Recovery Manager
Automation Object Model
Automation Frame Works

3. SQL
Introduction to RDBMS concepts
Writing Basic SQL Select Statements
Single-Row Functions
Aggregating Data using Group Functions
Sub-queries
Displaying Data from Multiple Tables – JOINS
Correlated Sub-queries
DDL, DML & TCL
Scripting & Spooling
Introduction to PL/SQL