1. Course Overview Snejina Lazarova Telerik QA Academy Telerik QA Academy Senior QA Engineer, Team Lead CRMTeam Dimo Mitev Senior QA Engineer, Team Lead SystemIntegrationTeam

2. 1. Course Objectives 2. Trainers Team 3. Course Curriculum and Exams 4. Course Schedule 5. Assessment 6. Recommended Resources 7. What Happens after the Course? 2

3. Why Do We Teach This Course?

4.  Train people in software engineering technologies  Practical training with lots of practice  Cutting edge technologies from Microsoft  Software engineering skills  Hire the best students in the Telerik teams  Support the IT industry development 4

5.  “Software Quality Assurance” course:  Give the trainees the fundamental knowledge and skills required in Quality Assurance  Establish the logical and critical thinking  Development of problems solving skills  Learn basic test design techniques  Study the most popular test automation tools 5

7.  Dimo Mitev  Corporation  Senior QA Engineer, Team Lead System Integration Team Telerik Corporation  8 years QA experience in 4 companies  Experienced in automation, functional and web service testing  ISTQB foundation and advanced level certified  1 publication in Quality Matters magazine  E-mail: dimo.mitev [at] telerik.com 7

8.  Snejina Lazarova  Senior QA Engineer, Team Lead CRMTeam Telerik Corporation  Over 7 years experience in QA  Experienced in automation, functional, performance and web service testing  ISTQB foundation and advanced level certified  E-mail: snejina.lazarova [at] telerik.com 8

9.  Mihail Parvanov  Team Lead Team 2 Team 2 Telerik Corporation 9  E-mail: mihail.parvanov [at] telerik.com

10.  Pavel Pankov  QA Lead Automated Testing Team Telerik Corporation 10  E-mail: pavel.pankov [at] telerik.com

11.  Angel Tsvetkov  Senior QA Engineer TeamPulse TeamPulse Telerik Corporation Telerik Corporation  5 years QA experience  Experienced in Automotive software testing, Web, apps testing  Experienced in Automotive software testing, Web, Stand alone and Mobile apps testing  E-mail: angel.tsvetkov [at] telerik.com 11

12.  Nikolay Nedyalkov  Senior QA Engineer TeamX 4 Telerik Corporation 12  E-mail: nikolay.nedyalkov [at] telerik.com

13.  Petar Horozov  Senior QA Engineer TeamX 4 Telerik Corporation 13  5 + years experience in software testing and QA  Experienced in Silverlight and WPF automation testing  E-mail: petar.horozov [at] telerik.com

14.  Lora Borisova  QA Engineer, WCAT Team Telerik Corporation 14  6 + years experience as QA Engineer  3 years experience as Scrum Master  Experienced in Functional, Automation and Performance testing  CSM and ISTQB certified  E-mail: lora.borisova [at] telerik.com

15.  Anton Angelov  QA Engineer System Integration Team Telerik Corporation 15  E-mail: anton.angelov [at] telerik.com

16.  Stoimen Stoimenov  QA Engineer SitefinityTeam Telerik Corporation 16  E-mail: stoimen.stoimenov [at] telerik.com

17.  Vera Pironska  QA Engineer TeamX 1 Telerik Corporation 17  E-mail: vera.pironska [at] telerik.com

18.  Ivailo Dinkov  QA Engineer PhoneXTeam Telerik Corporation 18  12 + years QA experience in various products like E-health, VMware, Win 8 apps  ISTQB advanced level certified  E-mail: ivailo.dinkov [at] telerik.com

19.  Miroslav Shtilianov  QA Engineer Automated Testing Telerik Corporation 19  E-mail: miroslav.shtilianov [at] telerik.com

20.  Dimitar Topuzov  QA Engineer, TeamX 6 Telerik Corporation Telerik Corporation  Over 7 years experience in QA  Experience in various domains, including:  Dev Tools (Telerik WPF and Silverlight Controls)  Test Automation Tools (Borland’s Silk products)  Data warehouse and BI solutions  E-mail: dimitar.topuzov [at] telerik.com 20

21.  Ivan Stanchev  QA Engineer System Integration Team Telerik Corporation 21  5 years experience in software testing and QA  Experienced in Performance, Load и Stress testing and interest in Exploratory approach  ISTQB foundation and advanced level certified  E-mail: ivan.stanchev [at] telerik.com

22.  Pavlina Koleva  Junior QA Engineer WinCore XAML Team Telerik Corporation 22  Main organizer of QA Academy 2012  ISTQB foundation level certified  E-mail: pavlina.koleva [at] telerik.com

23.  Vasil Chimev  Junior QA Engineer CentaurTeam Telerik Corporation 23  He is graduated from the first QA Academy season  Experienced in testing apps  Experienced in testing Silverlight and WPF apps  E-mail: vasil.chimev [at] telerik.com

24.  Asya Georgieva  Junior QA Trainer Technical Training Telerik Corporation 24  The main organizer of QA Academy 2013  She is graduated from the second QA Academy season  E-mail: asya.georgieva [at] telerik.com

26.  Fundamentals of Testing  Fundamental Test Process  Test Levels and Types  Quality Attributes for  Domain Testing  Technical Testing  Risk and Testing 26

27.  Test Organization  Test Planning and Estimation  Test Progress Monitoring and Control  Tools for Management of Testing and Tests  Incident Management  Software Development Models  Tool Support For Testing 27

28.  Web Testing Tools   Selenium  Selenium WebDriver  Telerik Test Studio  Web Testing  WPF and Mobile Testing 28 I.Intermediate Exam – 10.06

29.  Sikuli  Telerik Testing Framework, BDD & SpecFlow  Test Design Techniques  Deriving Manual & Automated test cases based on  Equivalence Partitioning  Boundary Value Analysis 29

30.  Deriving Automated test cases using WebAii Framework based on  Decision Table Testing  State Transition Testing  Use Case Testing  Pairwise Testing  Classification Trees 30

31.  Defect Taxonomies, Error Guessing, Checklist Testing and Exploratory Testing  Static Techniques  Security Vulnerability Testing (Software Attacks)  Tools for Performance, Load Testing and Stress Testing  With Visual Studio  With Telerik Test Studio II.Intermediate Exam – 12.07

32.  Web Service Testing  Web Services  Load, Security and REST testing  Set up QA process 32 III.Intermediate Exam – 5.08

34.  Lectures: ~ 90 hours  Practical exercises: ~ 60 hours  Exams: ~ 20 hours  Homework and Teamwork: ~ 200 hours 34

35.  Time allocation  3 months * 3 days weekly, 4 hours / day  From 16:00 to 20:00 on Monday and Wednesday  lectures + work in class with the trainer  From 15:00 to 19:00 on Friday  work in class  check homework, workshops, team work and other activities

36. How, What, When?

37.  Assessment for the course is based on multiple intermediate exams  There is no comprehensive final exam  Each intermediate exam covers the preceding topics  The final score is cumulative  Exams measure individual performance  Serve as filter for skillful people  Exams are not the only filter! 37

38.  Assessment for the course is based on final exam in the end of the course  There is no multiple intermediate exams 38

39.  Most topics include homework assignments  Homeworks are obligatory for both participants  Students who do not fulfill their homeworks fall off the program  Homework assignments are due to in a week after each lecture  Submission will be accepted through the student's system: telerikacademy.com telerikacademy.com 39

40.  Everyone will get feedback for their homework  Everyone will give feedback for few random homework submissions  Students submit homework anonymously  Please exclude your name from the submissions!  For each homework submitted  Students evaluate 3 random homeworks  From the same topic, after the deadline  Give written feedback, at least 200 characters  Low-quality feedback  report for punishment 40

41.  Formal Criteria 41  Informal Criteria  Forum activity – bonus up to 10 %  Other courses – bonus up to 10 % per course  Attendance – send e-mail notifications  Participation – ask questions, give ideas, express your thoughts CriterionWeight Exams (* 3 ) 55 % Team works 30 % Homework 10 % Homework evaluation 5%5%5%5%

42.  Formal Criteria 42  Informal Criteria  Forum activity – bonus up to 10 % CriterionWeight Final Exam 75 % Homework 15 % Homework evaluation 10 %

44.  The Telerik Integrated Learning System (TILS)  www.telerikacademy.com www.telerikacademy.com  Important resource for all students  Homework submissions  Homework peer reviews  Reports about your results 44 telerikacademy.com/Courses/Courses/Details/47

45.  You can always find the course's Curriculum and other information at the Telerik QA Academy web page  http://academy.telerik.com/student- courses/software-technologies/software- quality-assurance/about http://academy.telerik.com/student- courses/software-technologies/software- quality-assurance/about http://academy.telerik.com/student- courses/software-technologies/software- quality-assurance/about 45

46.  All students can Log in or Register in our forum on:  http://forums.academy.telerik.com/qa- academy http://forums.academy.telerik.com/qa- academy http://forums.academy.telerik.com/qa- academy  Discuss the course exercises with your colleagues  Share ideas 46

47. Advanced Software Testing - Vol. 1 - Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst, Rex Black ISBN: 978-1-933952-19-2 http://www.rockynook.com/books/55.html http://www.rockynook.com/books/55.html Advanced Software Testing Vol. 2: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager, Rex Black ISBN: 978-1-933952-36-9 http://www.rockynook.com/books/96.html http://www.rockynook.com/books/96.html 47

48. Software Testing Foundations: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam, Andreas Spillner, Tilo Linz, Hans Schaefer ISBN: 978-1-933952-08-6 978-1580537919 http://www.artechhouse.com/A-Practitioner-s- Guide-to-Software-Test-Design/b/970.aspx A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design, Lee Copeland ISBN: 978-1580537919 http://www.artechhouse.com/A-Practitioner-s- Guide-to-Software-Test-Design/b/970.aspx http://www.artechhouse.com/A-Practitioner-s- Guide-to-Software-Test-Design/b/970.aspx http://www.artechhouse.com/A-Practitioner-s- Guide-to-Software-Test-Design/b/970.aspx 48

49. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional, Rex Black ISBN: 9780470127902 http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/prod uctCd-0470127902.html http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/prod uctCd-0470127902.html http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/prod uctCd-0470127902.html 49

50.  ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) syllabus  http://istqb.org/ http://istqb.org/ 50

52.  After graduation all attendees will have an obligation to apply for a job in Telerik  If their job application is not accepted for some reason they will be free to work elsewhere 52

53.  The best graduates have the opportunity to start their career at Telerik as Junior QA engineers 53

54. Questions? http://academy.telerik.com