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Chapter 1- Basics of Software testing
General terms of testing and explains the following in detail.
   1. Why is Testing Necessary?
   2. What is Testing
   3. General Testing Principles
   4. Fundamental Test Processes
   5. Psychology of Testing

Chapter 2- Life Cycle Testing
Narrates how testing runs parallel with development process in SDLC. The main topics are as follows:
    • Software Development Models
    • Distinction: testing - checking, verification - validation
    • General "V Model", identification of phase results
    • Benefits of early tests; iterative tests
    • Testing within the life cycle models
 
Test Levels
 1. Component Testing (unit testing)
 2. Integration Testing
 3. System Testing
 4. Acceptance Testing
 

Test Types: the Targets of Testing
  1. Functional Testing
  2. Non-functional Testing
  3. Structural Testing
  4. Testing changes - Confirmation and Regression Testing
  5. Maintenance Tests
  6. Testing once changes have been made

Chapter 3- Dynamic Test
The main objective of this chapter is how to write effective test cases looking into requirements.
Objectives are:
   •  Identifying test conditions and designing test cases
   •  condition, test case, and test procedure.
   • Categories of test design techniques
   • specification-based (black-box), structure-based (white-box)
   • Specification-based or black-box techniques
   • equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis
   • decision tables, state transition diagrams
   • Structure-based or white-box techniques
   • Experience-based techniques
   • Choosing test techniques

Chapter 4- Static Test
    • Static testing is a verification process.  Following are narrated in this chapter
    • Reviews and the test process
    • Review Process
    • Formal review
    • Informal review
    • Technical review
    • Walkthrough
    • Inspection
    • Static analysis by tools

Chapter 5-  Test Management
    • Objectives of Test Management are as follows:
    • Test organization
    • Test planning and estimation
    • Test progress monitoring and control
    • Configuration management
    •Risk and testing
    • Incident Management

Chapter 6-  Testing Tools
    • Overview of this chapter are as follows:
    • Types of test tools
    • Effective use of tools: potential benefit and risks
    • Introducing a tool into an organization.