Software Testing Fundamentals

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Exam 98-379 - Software Testing Fundamentals

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Describe testing fundamentals (15‒20%)

  • Describe software testing
    • Measure software quality and testing benefits
  • Describe software and hardware components
    • Distinguish operating systems, network, data, and hardware and software and their interaction and dependencies
  • Describe fundamentals of programming
    • Data types; distinguish programming languages, such as compiled or interpreted; and analyze simple algorithms
  • Describe application lifecycle management
    • Agile, waterfall, spiral, product and project lifecycles

Describe testing methodology (10‒15%)

  • Describe testing techniques
    • Manual testing, automated testing, distinguish black box and white box testing
  • Describe testing levels
    • Unit, component, and integration testing
  • Describe testing types
    • Functional, performance structural, regression, security, stress, accessibility, usability, and localization testing

Create software tests (20‒25%)

  • Describe user-centric testing
    • Business need and issues, customer requirements, and scenarios
  • Describe software testability
    • Test-driven development and testing hooks
  • Create test plan components
    • Test schedule, scope, methodology, scenarios, and tools
  • Describe feature tests
    • Distinguish the functionality in the appropriate feature test
  • Define appropriately scoped test cases
    • Boundary conditions, level of detail, and validity

Manage software testing projects (15‒20%)

  • Describe testing milestones
    • Process fundamentals, exit criteria, and sign off
  • Describe the agile process
    • Scrum, kanban, and sprint management
  • Work with distributed teams
    • Communication, risk management, schedule management, and delivery process
  • Define test reports
    • Define appropriate status and project report components, define reporting cadence to meet project milestones, identify appropriate recipients for various report types

Work with bugs (15‒20%)

  • Detect software defects
    • Executing test cases, running automation scripts
  • Log bugs
    • Priority, severity, dependency, and repro steps
  • Manage bugs
    • Triage, resolution, closing, monitoring, and bug summary reports

Automate software testing (10‒15%)

  • Describe test automation
    • Benefits, candidates for automation, and automation process
  • Define test automation strategies
    • Code coverage, logging, and automation priority
  • Write automation tests
    • Logic, error handling, commenting, and virtual machines
  • Manage test scripts
    • Smoke test, build verification test, and lab management

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