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Please find a list below of the courses that Edgewords provide, along with a brief description of each course.

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Complete LoadRunner

3 days

Intended audience: New users of LoadRunner

This course covers all aspects of using LoadRunner 9.5, from planning your load test scenarios, through to developing your VuGen scripts, executing your scenarios and finally analyzing your results. The course covers real-world best practices for effective use of the software. Throughout the course practical examples are demonstrated, and the delegates get to practice what they have learned in each chapter with hands-on exercises. An optional 1 day lab-based practical is also offered, which gives you the opportunity to plan & execute a performance test project from start to finish.

QuickTest Professional Introduction

2 days

Intended audience: New users of QTP

This core course provides a comprehensive understanding of using QuickTest Professional as an automated functional testing tool for different environments. You will use QuickTest Professional’s graphical point and click interface to record and play back tests, add synchronization points and verification steps, as well as create multiple action tests. You will build upon fundamental topics by using debug tools to troubleshoot tests and use additional checkpoints and product options to broaden the scope of business processes that can be automated. Once tests are created, you will discover and correct common record and play back problems.  All topics are supported by hands-on exercises that are based on real-life examples.

Advanced QuickTest Professional

2 days

Intended audience: Existing users of QTP and Developers

Take your functional test automation skills to the next level by learning to use the Expert View in QuickTest Professional. Through discussions and hands-on exercises, you will learn to create steps that work with dynamic objects and data, use VBScript conditional and looping statements to control the flow of your tests and components, and use DataTable methods and database connection objects to retrieve external data.

Using QTP with Quality Center

1 day

Intended audience: Existing users of QTP and Quality Center

This course looks at the integration between QuickTest Professional and Quality Center. How to store your complete QTP automation project within Quality Center, how to run tests from Quality Center, as well as how to use the Quality Center API to get the two products to ‘talk’ to each other.
Throughout the course practical examples are demonstrated, and the delegates get to practice what they have learned in each chapter against the applications

Complete QTP

3 days

Intended audience: New & Existing users of QTP or other Automation Tools

Covering the basic and advanced principles of QTP. This compact course covers elements from both the Using and Advanced QTP courses, and is designed to give you the opportunity to progress quickly through the basics and on to the more advanced automation techniques within QTP

Using Quality Center

2 day

Intended audience: New users of Quality Center

The process-based functionality of Quality Center is learnt in this hands-on course. Students will learn how to manage Quality Center information throughout the development cycle, manage releases and test cycles, construct and organise requirements, create and execute test sets, monitor defects, and use graphs and reports to track the success of a project. All you need to know to manage your testing project within Quality Center

Quality Center Administration & Customisation

1 day

Intended audience: Administrators of Quality Center and Project/Test Managers

This course covers the tasks that are performed by site administrators, project managers, and Quality Assurance (QA) leads to set up Quality Center (QC) projects before users can work with requirements, test cases, and defects. This hands-on course focuses on planning, creating, and customising Quality Center projects. It is an important course for people involved in creating projects, modifying existing fields, creating user-defined fields, creating users, setting user permissions, and defining basic workflow. Essential for anyone who will be managing the Quality Center implementation

LoadRunner Web Suite

5 days

Intended audience: All LoadRunner users

This suite of 3 courses focuses on using LoadRunner to load-test Web applications. You will create test scenarios and run them using the LoadRunner Controller. You will use the LoadRunner Analysis component to interpret load test results.
The information gathered during planning is used to create and enhance scripts specific to Web applications using the Virtual User Generator (VuGen) component of LoadRunner. All topics are supported by hands-on exercises designed to provide you with the knowledge to load test your applications in the Web environment. 
The last day involves in comprehension testing where students are required to create, enhance and debug scripts according to the given specifications. Once the script is ready, they need incorporate the script as part of a scenario to run load tests to according to the given performance objectives. This course provides comprehensive training on all aspects of using LoadRunner for load/stress/capacity testing

Using WinRunner

2 days

Intended audience: New WinRunner users

WinRunner records user actions and application responses to create scripts which can be used as automated tests. This course teaches the fundamentals of creating and enhancing automated test scripts. After completing this course, students will be able to use WinRunner to automate functional and regression tests.

WinRunner Advanced

2 days

Intended audience: Existing WinRunner users and developers

Advanced WinRunner teaches students to use programming and troubleshooting techniques to enhance their automated test scripts to achieve greater test coverage for their applications. Essential to WinRunner users looking to progress past record & replay

Business Process Testing for the Automation Engineer

2 days

Intended audience: QTP users and developers adopting the BPT framework

This introductory course provides an in-depth examination of the role of the Automation Engineer in a Business Process Testing (BPT) environment. You will learn the process of creating BPT components and tests using both QuickTest Professional and Quality Center.  You will also study how to create and manage BPT application areas, object repositories, keywords, functions and scripted components.  Best practices for the implementation of BPT automation are stressed throughout the course. All topics are supported by hands-on exercises designed to provide you with the ability to successfully automate using the BPT methodology

Business Process Testing for the Subject Matter Expert

2 days

Intended audience: Anyone interested in using the BPT framework

This entry-level, training provides the Subject Matter Expert with a workflow of tasks to follow in order to successfully implement a Business Process Testing solution in a Quality Center environment. Fundamental concepts, terminology and best practices will be presented. These basic concepts and procedures are reinforced by review questions and hands-on labs.

ISEB Foundation Certification

3 days incl exam

Intended audience: All testers

This course leads to the Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB) Foundation Certificate in Software Testing and follows the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certified Tester Foundation Level Syllabus. The certificate is awarded by ISEB to those who pass the one hour multiple-choice

ISEB Intermediate Certification

4 days incl exam

Intended audience: All testers certified to ISEB Foundation Level

This course leads to the Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB) Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing. This is the next step for those who have attained the Foundation level of certification

* Please note that some of these courses are only available on demand to those with a minimum number of delegates

 


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