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Fundamentals
10 Lessons-
StartFallibility (3:45)
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StartStakeholder Objectives and Risk (6:29)
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Start(Product) Risk and Testing (5:51)
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StartHuman error, faults and failure (5:33)
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StartRoot Cause Analysis (5:44)
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StartFailure Diagnosis (7:22)
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StartMindset, Thinking and Our Sources of Knowledge (8:26)
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StartModels, Coverage and Environments (8:24)
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StartNever Finished, Repeat-Test, Sequencing and Events (8:57)
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StartInterpretation and Reporting (4:43)
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Applying Tests
10 Lessons-
StartPlanned Testing (to be recorded)
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StartExploratory versus Scripted Testing (to be recorded)
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StartExploring a System as a Source of Knowledge (to be recorded)
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StartHeuristics in Action (to be recorded)
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StartDiscovering Functionality (to be recorded)
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StartExploring with Purpose: Surveying (to be recorded)
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StartTesting the Exploratory Way (to be recorded)
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StartTesting Without Requirements (to be recorded)
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StartDocumentation: Test Charters and Note-Taking (to be recorded)
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StartReporting and Debriefing (to be recorded)
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Tester Skills Program Foundation: Core Modules
This is the Foundation level course in systems testing. It is a foundation class introducing new testers to test fundamentals.
Course Summary
Course Curriculum
Paul Gerrard
Paul Gerrard is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, programmer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and publisher. He has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specialising in test assurance. He has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them.
Educated at the universities of Oxford and Imperial College London, he is a Principal of Gerrard Consulting Limited, the host of the UK Test Management Forum and the Programme Chair for the 2014 EuroSTAR testing conference.
In 2010 he won the EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award and in 2013 he won the inaugural TESTA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018 he won the ISTQB Testing Excellence award.
He's been programming since the mid-1970s and loves using the Python programming language.
