Complete Manual Testing

Course Curriculum: Modern Software Testing & Quality Assurance

Module 1: Foundations of Quality Engineering

• What is software testing: Principles, myths, and economics of QA

• Static vs. Dynamic testing; Verification vs. Validation

• SDLC models: Waterfall, V-Model, and Agile overview

• Deep dive into STLC phases: Planning, Analysis, Design, Environment Setup, Execution, and Closure

• Designing a Test Strategy and Test Plan document

Module 3: Testing Levels & Functional/Non-Functional Types

• Levels: Unit, Integration, System, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Functional Testing: Smoke, Sanity, Regression, and Retesting

• Non-Functional Testing: Basics of Performance, Usability, Accessibility, and Security

Module 4: Practical Test Design Techniques

• Black-box techniques: Equivalence Class Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis

• Logic-based testing: Decision Tables, and Use Case testing

• Writing professional test cases, scenarios, and requirement traceability matrices (RTM)

Module 5: Defect Tracking & Bug Lifecycle

• Anatomy of an effective bug report (Severity vs. Priority, reproducibility steps, logs)

• Bug lifecycle transitions and triage meetings

• Hands-on defect logging and tracking using Jira

Module 6: Agile QA & Shift-Left Practices

• Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives

• User stories, Acceptance Criteria, and “Definition of Done” (DoD)

• Exploratory testing and Session-Based Test Management (SBTM)

Module 7: AI-Augmented Manual Testing

• Prompt engineering for QA: Generating test scenarios and synthetic mock data

• Using LLMs for requirement ambiguity analysis and edge-case discovery

• AI tools for visual UI validation and automated defect summarization