The document outlines an automation testing syllabus covering software development lifecycles, the role of testers, types of testing, test techniques, test cases, test plans, bugs, Java concepts, production tools, load testing, test management tools, and real-world manual testing projects. Key topics include waterfall, agile, and scrum models; unit, integration, and regression testing; black box and white box techniques; test plans; bug tracking; Java fundamentals; and tools like JUnit, Selenium, JIRA, LoadRunner, and QTP. The syllabus aims to equip students with the skills needed for both manual and automation testing.

1. Automation Testing Syllabus
Software Development Life Cycle
SDLC Development Models (Morning Classes)
1) Waterfall Model => Requirement Design Development Testing Release and Maintenance
2) Evolutionary Development Model
3) Agile Model
4) Test Driven Development
5) Scrum Model
Role of a Tester
Types of Testing
 Different Testing Types
 Unit, Integration, System Testing
 GUI Testing, Load / Stress Testing
 Smoke / Sanity Testing Important
 Regression/ Functional Testing to test the new features added or when the build is almost
complete. Basically the test suite is selected and run again fully to ensure that the build is
working fine.
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UML (RATIONAL ROSE) / Uses Cases for Testers
Writing good use cases
a) Elevator, Mobile Phone, Pen, Coffee Vending Machine, Keyboard
List of Technologies
Black Box Test Techniques
1) Boundary Value Analysis
2) Equivalence Class Partition
3) Error Guessing
White Box Test Techniques
1) Statement coverage
2) Condition Coverage
3) Path Coverage
4) Branch Coverage
Types of Test Cases
1) Positive and Negative test cases
2) UI Test Cases
3) Usability Test Cases
4) Field Validation
5) Functional Test Cases

2. Test Case Template
1) Do Test Cases for credomobile.com
2) Template – TID Description Steps Expected Result Test Data/Pre Condition Specific
Environment Type/Priority
Test Plan Document (Evening Class)
1) Title
2) Revision History
3) Objective of Document
4) Scope of Document
5) Objective of Testing
6) Metric Collection
7) Project Description
8) Critical Functionality
9) Test Data Requirement
10) Features not to be used
11) Test Environment
12) Training Requirements
13) Effort Estimation
14) Resource Requirement
15) Scheduling
16) Test Strategy
17) Input/Entry Criteria
18) Exit Criteria
19) Test Suspension and Resumption Criteria
20) Test Completion criteria
21) Completion Criteria
22) Acceptance Criteria
23) Bug Classification
24) Test Deliverables
25) Standards to be followed
26) Risk Analysis
Bugs (Morning Class)
1) Bug Classification – Severity and Priority
2) Bug Template – Look at JIRA
3) Bug Tracking Tools – JIRA, BugZilla, Quality Center, Clear Quest
4) Bug Life Cycle – Filing duplicate bugs
5) Statuses for Bug Life Cycle
Test Process – Look at the Document
JAVA
OO Concepts
Encapsulation

3.  Access Modifiers
 Packages
Inheritance
 Abstract Classes
 Interface
 Final
Polymorphism
 Overriding
 Overloading
 This
 Super
 Constructor
General
 Data types – byte short int long float double Boolean char
 Derived Data types – String, Integer, Long
Collections = Very Important
 Lists
 Sets
 Revise Basic Algorithms if time permits.
Exception Handling
 Checked and Unchecked
 Errors
 Run time Exceptions
 No such method error, no such field error, Illegal Access Error
 Null Pointer Exception, Array Out of Bounds Exception
JDBC
Production Level Tools
Log4J
ANT
SVN
 Look into Test Drive of Tortoise for Recap
HUDSON
 Read Sel Simplified.
JIRA ,BugZilla
 Bug defect cycle
JUNIT, TestNG
 It provides test case structure to the automation test cases. It also provides utilities like
asserts and annotations.
 Annotations and utilities like assert and verify
 Easily run the class files of test and tabulate the results.
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TestNG

4.  Groups
 Data Provider
 Many suites can be run simultaneously. Changes done in the XML file.
Other Languages
SQL
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PERL
UNIX
Create table
Insert into table values
Update Table
A complex problem involving inner joins of three tables
Other Topics
SOAP
 Basic theory and abbreviations
 Test Cases for the response
 Creating test suites and running them
Web Services = Read the printed notes
SOA
N Tier
 Read Day 5 notes of Alok. Good information.
 Draw the diagram of the previous project N Tier
Multi-Tier Architecture
SEI CMM
 Collect the notes
Mercury Quick Test Pro (QTP)
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Introduction
Recording
Object Repository
Standard Checkpoints
Text Checkpoints
Database Checkpoints Need to Look
Parameterization
Data Driven Testing
Output Values
Actions
Descriptive Programming (description.createobjectproperty = value)
Load Testing (LoadRunner)

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Fundamentals of LoadRunner
Planning an Effective Load Test
LoadRunner Installation
Virtual User Generator (VuGen) Scripting
Recording & Playback
Actions & Transactions
Parameters, Checkpoints, Correlation
Advanced Correlation
Enhance Vuser Output Log
Error Handling
Introduction to Scenarios
Using Run-Time Settings
Scenario Execution
Scheduling Scenarios
Performance Monitors
Results Analysis
Building Effective Load Test Scripts
Load Runner Hands-on exercises
Mercury Quality Center (Test Management Tool)
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Adding Test Requirements
Create Tests
Executing the test cases manually
Analyze project progress
Run Tests and Analyze Results
Report and Trace Defects
Document Generator
Executing test scripts remotely and more.
Tie test cases with requirements (Requirements Traceability Matrix)
Descriptive Programming (Time permitting)
 How to write scripts using VBScript when application is not ready
 Get a head-start on Test Scripting as developers are writing code
Manual Testing Real Project: Take a real project and do following in different phases of QA lifecycle.
 QA basic, First day at job
 Requirement
 Test plan
 Sizing/LOE
 Test case
 Bug lifecycle-JIRA, Clear Quest, QC
 Log- with Log4j
 Build
 Sanity vs Smoke/Build verification Test/Build acceptance test

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Boundary value analysis and Equivalence partitioning
End to End testing
Status reporting
UAT
Production Check out
OR
SOR
Basic of web syntax
Descriptive programming
Function
Functional library
Excel Integration
Option explicit
Description.create
Loop
Ordinal Identifier
GetROproperty
GetTOproperty
Show manual test script
Error handling using script
Recovery Scenario
Reporter.reportevent
Start Calculator exercise to show different
numbers
Debugging the script
Parameterize with excel for different number
system
Action
Final development of Keyword driven
framework with these learnings – Depends on
Timing