LogiGear Certified Test Professional

LogiGear Certified Testing Program is a career development certification achievement program that LogiGear Corporation and the University of Science created to enable professionals to become certified testing experts. The LogiGear Certified Testing Program consists of several certifications of which, the first in the series, LogiGear Certified Test Professional (LCTP) will be offered in fall 2009.

About University of Science

The University of Science is devoted to establishing a foundation of science and fostering professionals who can take the lead in the basic science field. Through its education programs, its students will be trained to be professionals not only with good character, creativity, and logical ways of thinking but also with excellent computer skills and a good command of foreign languages. The University of Science received many medals from government such as Labor Medal of First ranking, Independent Medal of Third ranking and much recognition from other organizations. Their Computer Science Center is the best Information Technology training center in Viet Nam with 23 years of experience in the field of IT and is ISO certified. They teach more than 50,000 students each year in Ho Chi Minh City and integrated with 44 partners in Viet Nam.

About Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology

With its mission to obtain the latest information technology practices and follow global IT trends, University of Technology partners with leading software testing company, LogiGear Corporation and begin software testing training classes titled LCTP.

LCTP I: BASIC SOFTWARE TESTING SKILLS

DESCRIPTION
This course is Part I of the LCTP series. It offers a pragmatic introduction to systematic black box software testing. It reflects techniques and thinking that are applied day-to-day by successful companies that develop software for consumers or provide software development and testing services to other companies. The course seeks to develop your practical testing and test result reporting skills, and to improve your effectiveness in testing.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Participants with a minimum of a two-year college degree or certificate, and more than two years of experience using computer and software applications, who do not have testing knowledge and/ or experience, and wish to enter a new professional software testing career.

COURSE MATERIALS (included)

• A handbook with slides BASIC SOFTWARE TESTING SKILLS
• Mambo Website (for practicing)

YOU WILL LEARN

• Common Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices and how software testing fits in those contexts.
• Testing phases and checkpoints in a SDLC and their purpose
• General concept of quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and software testing, and how to differentiate them.
• The roles of software testing groups and software testers
• An introduction to LogiGear© Software Test Planning Framework and possible test strategies, approaches, methods, types and techniques used in various software application development phases, for specific quality objectives
• Introduction to black box, gray-box and white box approaches
• Introduction to test requirement, specification and design
• How to analyze and create test requirements.
• Five commonly used test design techniques and how to apply them
• What is a bug and how to write a bug report
• The 13 types of common software errors
• How to work with a Bug Management System and a Test Case Management System
• How to report the testing progress

LCTP II: NEW TEST ENGINEER SURVIVAL SKILLS

DESCRIPTION
This course is Part II of the LCTP series; a continuation of Part I. The course focuses on other skills beyond testing techniques to help a new test engineer successfully survive and effectively contribute as a new team member in a test team. It also introduces the dynamics of the working environment of an outsourced service team and equips you with adequate soft skills to quickly learn, adapt and practice software testing in the real world. The course also seeks to develop your basic understanding of software test automation technology and its applications.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Participants who have completed the LCTP I

COURSE MATERIALS (included)

• A handbook with slides New Test Engineer Survival Skills Slides
• Mambo Website (for practicing)
• TestArchitect™ Next Generation 5.0 for practicing

YOU WILL LEARN

• What you need to know to be effective as a new member of a test team
• Common daily testing activities and task you will carry out
• Differences between testing for an in-house development team and testing for an outsourced-service team
• How to work effectively in an outsourced team
• How to quickly sip through a large volume of information including technical documents and find specific information you need to do your job effectively
• How to create test requirement from technical and business documents
• Introduction to test automation engineering
• Introduction to Action-based Testing, a keyword-driven approach to test automation
• Introduction to TestArchitect™, a keyword-driven-automation enabling technology
• Using TestArchitect™ Next Generation tool to automate a testing project

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