Published: September 20, 2013
Languages: English
Audiences: Academic Technology:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
Credit toward certification: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)

Skills measured
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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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