Professional Software Testing Using Visual Studio 2019

Summary

This course will introduce you to the contemporary testing principles and practices used by agile teams to deliver high-quality increments of software on regular iterations. Through a combination of lecture, demonstrations, and team-based exercises, students will experience how to do this by leveraging the tools found in Visual Studio, Azure DevOps Services, and the community marketplace.

Prerequisites

Duration

3 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience

This course is appropriate for all members of a software development team, especially those performing testing activities. This course also provides value for non-testers (developers, designers, managers, etc.) who want a better understanding of what agile software testing involves. You should take this class if any of these issues sound familiar:

• Release dates and budgets are missed due to low quality and bugs
• Testing activities are performed at the end of the sprint/iteration or release
• No collective ownership or collaboration exists between the developers and testers
• The team tests the wrong things at the wrong time
• No automated tests, no regression tests, and no idea of the quality of your software

Topics

• Agile Software Testing
• Planning and Tracking Quality
• Development Tests
• Acceptance Tests
• Exploratory Tests
• Build and Release Testing
• Reporting