Software Testing Training: End To End Training On A Live Project – Free Online QA Training Part 1

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Updated March 6, 2024

Free Software Testing Training On A Real-Time Live Project:

We are very excited to present this next series of Software Testing training free tutorials. We are going to simulate an end to end real-time software project going over each and every phase in detail with a special emphasis on QA training processes, phases, roles & responsibilities, deliverables, etc.

In short, be ready for a short online Software Testing course.

_End To End Training On A Live Project


Important note: The below free tutorials are useful to get started but if you are interested in the best online LIVE Software Testing training course from the experts, please check this page.

Testing QA Training


=> Here is the list of all tutorials in this free Live Project QA training series:


Why this Free QA Training?

We get many queries from our readers to share our experience on the exact Software Testing process followed by the Software Testing teams. So we decided to document this complete STLC with the help of a sample live application that is available to test on the Internet.

We will be using this live project for our Software Testing Training series. We strongly recommend you to closely follow this series as it is going to be a crash course to learn and implement testing practices on a live application.

Software Testing Training On Live Project – What Is It?

Before we go any further, let me take a moment to explain what this Software Testing course series is all about and how it is going to take shape as we move forward.

We picked a live application (whose details are below) and start with:

– Basically, everything that we would typically do in a real-time Software Testing project – with real-time examples, artifacts, and deliverables all created in the process.

How To Follow This Software Testing Course Series?

Step #1) Introduction and SRS Walkthrough – We will start this mini software testing course with the SRS walkthrough. We have created and shared a sample SRS document. Go through it as all further steps depend on your understanding of this application.

Step #2) SRS Review and Test Scenario preparation.

Step #3) Test Plan – complete the process of creating a Test Plan from scratch. The final Test Plan version will be shared with you for reference.

Step #4) Test Cases – complete test cases writing process with some sample test cases. We may use any Test Management tool or spreadsheet for writing test cases.

Step #5) Application walkthrough and Test Execution – How to execute test cases and record the test results?

Step #6) Defect Reporting

Step #7) Defect Verification, Regressing testing process

Step #8) QA Sign-off

The intention is to give you all a feel of real-time project experience and expertise. We hope you find this series useful.

Application That We Are Going To Use Further

Introduction

Client: Orange
Application: OrangeHRM demo.
Service Provider: SoftwareTestingHelp.com

Project Description

Orange wants to create a commercial human resources management product that can be consumed and customized by medium-sized businesses located in a single country and globally.

It has 2 versions: Professional and Enterprise.

The Features Include

  • Personal Information Management
  • Advanced Leave Management
  • Time & Attendance Tracking
  • Employee Performance Management
  • Recruitment
  • Advanced Reporting
  • Country / Location-Based Employee Management
  • Localized Leave Rules
  • Configurable Workflows
  • Platinum Support
  • Country/Location-Based Reporting
  • Custom Reporting

Note: For the sake of simplicity and to limit out scope let us consider the employee module of this HRM portal where the user has an option to enter their personal information.

When a customer or a business owner has a need to venture into the online world or make updates on the already existing site or application, the need is a business problem and the software is a piece of code that is designed to solve this business problem.

A customer then approaches a software service provider to make this software a reality for them. That is when the software project’s inception begins.

A traditional Waterfall Project (SDLC) has the following phases:

Software development process

  • As QA’s we all know that even though “Test” is step 5 of this flow, it is not the only place we testers play a prominent role.
  • Also, testing is a reactive job. With no code/application ready to test we cannot really ‘test’ anything.  In order to be ready and react in the most efficient way possible, we try as much as we can to plan and prepare ahead. So, even though phase 5 is for testing, our activities start way ahead.

In a nutshell, this is what happens in each phase!!

Initiate:

Once the producer and the customer agree on terms – the software production begins.

  • In this phase, business requirements are gathered and analyzed. The analysis is going to involve the decisions on technological considerations, hardware & software specifications, people, effort, time, relevance and improvements among others.
  • Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Client Representatives are involved in this step.
  • At the end of this step and the basic project, the plan is prepared.
  • Project-specific documents like scope document and/or business requirements are made.
  • QA involvement at this stage is typically not to be expected. (This is a slight deviation from what it should be because to identify issues early in the developmental phases, it is best to involve QA right from the beginning.)

Define:

The business requirements finalized are the inputs for this step.

  • This phase involves the translation of business requirements into functional requirements for the software. For Example, if the business requirement is to allow a user to buy something from a site. The functional requirement will have details like Site format->Menu option name and placement->Search product-> Shopping cart->Checkout (registration or not) ->Payment options->Confirmation of sale.
  • Developers, Business Analysts, Project Managers are involved in this phase
  • The output of this phase is a detailed document containing the functional requirements of the software. This document is referred to by many names – Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Requirements Document (FRD) or Functional Requirements Specification (FRS).
  • This is where the QA team gets involved – after the completion of SRS documentation.
  • While the finalizing on functional requirements and the documentation of the SRS is going on, the QA manager/lead is involved to draft an initial version of the Test Plan and form a QA team.
  • The QA team’s involvement is going to be once the SRS is documented.
  • At this stage, either the development team or the business analyst or sometimes even the QA team lead will give a walkthrough of the SRS to the QA team.
  • In case of a new project, a thorough walkthrough in the form of a conference or meeting works best
  • In case of later releases for an existing project, a document is sent via email or placement in a common repository to the QA team. QA team at this point would read/review it offline and understand the system thoroughly.
  • Since the primary target audience for the SRS document is not just testers, not all of it is useful for us. We testers should be diligent enough when reviewing this document to decide what parts of it are useful for us and what parts of it are not.

SRS Document For This Live Project

A sample SRS document is attached to this post to give you an idea on how this document looks like, the format in which it is written, what kind of information it contains, etc. In the next article, we will get into how this document is consumed by the QA team to proceed further in our testing projects.

==> Download Live Project Sample SRS Document.

Conclusion

In this article, we introduced you to the Software Development and Testing process. We also shared a sample SRS document for the live project that we are going to test.

=> The upcoming article in this software testing training series will be – SRS Review and the process of creating test scenarios.

Note: While the next article in this QA training series is being written, work with us in parallel here for the most live experience. Try to give the SRS document a good reading and then we will continue with the next steps when we meet again.

Happy Testing, till then!

About the Author: STH team member Swati Seela is helping us to present this live project QA training series.

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189 thoughts on “Software Testing Training: End To End Training On A Live Project – Free Online QA Training Part 1”

  1. Sir,
    Can u provide any project and all details about that based on manual and automation testing (tools should be like qtp, sellenium,qc,bugzilla etc), as soon as possible.
    thanks

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  2. I am looking for a manual testing information very clearly with like this project.I am very confusing from where i need to start thank u.

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  3. Thank you for this article. It is really useful information you have shared. The training is inspiring and encouraged me to learn more about Software Testing. We have a Software Testing Board which is intended to act as a platform for Software Testing Professionals. You may have look and share your thoughts on it.

    Reply
  4. its good but generic, Discussion should be centeric to the live project which is discussed.

    Document attached looks more like user guide than SRS.

    regards
    gaurav khurana

    Reply
  5. Hello sir this we cant follow the tutorials easily because of the so many ADs plz work on it sir in spite of that the everything is good

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  6. Hi Vijay and team,
    Great work. Waiting for such a kind of training since long. I am excited to go with this live project. I loved this article. This live project training is going to be so helpful for freshers as well as entry level testers.
    Again, great job and goodluck. I am so excited to complete this training.

    Thanx a bunch Vijay and team.
    Aditi

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  7. Thank you so much Swati Sheela…. Vijay thanks for the wonderful work that you have started with your energetic team.

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  8. Really this is an informative post, thanks so much for this. I look forward to more posts. Also We offer a comprehensive study solution for students by providing a variety of resources. mcqs360.com

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  9. Thanks alot . Very helpful and informative for fresher and experienced as well. Could you please send me a dummy project on Insurance domain or E-Commerce domain ?
    It would be very helpful..

    Reply
  10. Hi, Vijay

    Thanks for this article. Even non-IT people can understand it better. I need guidance in this matter. I am a creo desig engineer (mechanical) with 8 yrs of exp. and after that 5 yrs of break. So can I change my field to software testing? Is it adavisable? pl. reply

    Reply
  11. Download Live Project Sample SRS Document. ….this link is not working could you please forward me to my mail-id.it could help me lot.
    Your live tutorial is very useful..!!!!!!!!!11
    Thanks…..

    Reply
  12. tx for this live project, its really going to help me as im busy doing self initiated experience, already looking forward to the next phase.

    Reply
  13. Great Job,Can you be specific how the application is assigned to the QA Engineers(Modules)What are Reports give(Daily,Weekly)What are the challenges faced by a QA Engineer

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  14. Excellent article. Can u please provide me some healthcare insurance project that is implemented via ETL informatica tool/ or just provide detailed study how to test such applications manually.. Pls send to my mail id- koribp@gmail.com
    Thanks a lot..

    Reply
  15. Hi Sir,
    I am so greatful to you I really felt bad that I am not getting help from anyone and I dont know anything about the internal process. This article gave me clear picture I am so greatful to you. Thank you once again.

    Reply
  16. Thank you for the information.
    One question, I can’t download shared “Live Project Sample SRS Document”.
    Could you email one copy to me? Thank you.

    Reply
  17. You guys are doing well. I am non-functional tester and very keen on getting my hands dirty with this demo project as I am interested in exploring other area of testing.

    Reply
  18. Thank you for this article. It is really useful information you have shared. The training is inspiring and encouraged me to learn more about Software Testing. We have a Software Testing Board which is intended to act as a platform for Software Testing Professionals. You may have look and share your thoughts on it.

    Reply
  19. Nice article its very useful.

    In continuation to this its better to automation process also when and where and how automation included in to the process while testing.

    Thanks
    Mamatha

    Reply
  20. I really appreciate finding your site as I have been a QA tester/analyst for over 30 years and many times found myself performing tasks that usually a lead performs, only sans the title. I am up for a QA Lead position and this could not have come to me at a better time. Thank you!

    Reply
  21. Awesome work, very helpful website. Much better than online trainers and classes that charge you thousands of dollar and do nothing more than fake promises .

    Appreciate you work!! Thanks

    Reply
  22. Hi..can u pls mail me manual testing notes with real time project ( test cases test plan..scenarios.. Srs doc example.

    Reply
  23. I’am a fresher tester. Thanks you very much about your’s article, it’s useful.

    I looking forward many new article from you, Vijay. Thank you again.

    Reply
  24. Hi Sir,
    I really want to need this training and material. Presently I am working a manual QA but want to work as an automation QA Engineer. I hope it will help me. please send me all information on my email id.
    Thanks in advance
    best regards,
    khushi

    Reply
  25. Hi All,

    If you are looking for fresher job then please send your resume for one of top MNC.
    Eligibility Criteria:
    •All branches of BE / B.Tech, ME / M.Tech, MCA are eligible, except Pharma and Fashion Technology.
    Year of pass out for the highest level of education has to be 2013 & 2014
    70 % & above throughout education (PG, UG, X, XII)

    Thanks
    Sreenivas Reddy

    Reply
  26. Hi,
    The link to “Application: OrangeHRM demo.” doesn’t appear to be working, I am getting a “This site can’t be reached”

    Reply
  27. Hi
    I am interested to join software job. Nw I am choosing testing tool and proffered to online classes. So give me suggestions us best or not

    Reply
  28. Amazing work….
    Thank you so much Swati …she is such a great facilitator, explaining everything very clearly, patiently and thoroughly.You are the best tutor along with best writer.You give all useful information in details same as you explain in live training.
    Thanx for another live project for testing.

    Reply
  29. Hi Vijay and the team. This is brilliant. looking forward to it and also courses such as how to test a web app and a mobile app project using selenium/one or two commercial mobile automated testing tools. Cheers and keep it up ( :

    Reply
    • Hi,
      I was Completed the selenium testing Course @ a small Coaching Institute. but I don’t have the huge knowledge about selenium. Now i like to make the Demo testing project Using Data driven method if you can help me.

      Reply
    • Hi ,I learnt selenium web driver in one of the institute in maitrivanam. Noa I want to do project in online.you can WhatsApp me 8341043739

      Reply
  30. Hi..can u pls mail me manual testing notes with real time project ( test cases test plan..scenarios.. Srs doc example..) And also coding for selenium webdriver..

    Reply
  31. Hi,
    Thank u very much for the live project.
    Can you please give some knowledge on end to end scenario testing on inventory management.
    Thanks

    Reply
  32. Thank you vijay…

    Regrets of detailed about the subject, and one more thing you are having the idea of testing companies in Bangalore near Marathalli, Whitefield..Bcz am new for this place..instead of these two cities i don’t know cities well in B’glore.so,plz kindly to know, get companies information for mysake..and even am working also daily checking about your mails, ….

    and one more thing how fast i want to learn the subject about your tutions…let give me suggestion..how to grasp the subject.Let me know vijay..

    Thank you

    Reply
  33. That is a fantastic move Vijay.
    This demo project will be very helpful for new testers to get a hands on experience in testing process.

    Every new tester should try the service to understand various testing aspects and the way to implement those in real testing scenario.
    I am too much eager to test various modules in this project as per specified SRS. From a couple of days, I was looking for such a project to make my hands dirty in testing process.

    Reply
  34. “We have created and shared a sample SRS document. Go through it as all further steps depend on your understanding of this application”

    Does the above refer to the HRM application? Please clarify. Nice write up and series though, well done and keep up the fine work!

    Reply
  35. This will be a great project for the starters and will be a great experience how to deal with the live projects.
    I am excited to go with this live project,
    Thanks a lot for arranging this kind of things.
    Hopefully, you will continue to help the Testing people in future as well.
    Sunil

    Reply
  36. how to automate ecommerce website and also explain the compleate real time work on selenium webdriver and using framework testng.please reply me it’s urgent.

    Reply
  37. I am a fresher,Completed Manual testing course and now learning selinium,so can any one help me what are the most important things that i have to learn now,and what type of questions will be asked if i go to interviews.

    Please if any one nows tell me and help.

    Reply
  38. can u please provide the full scenario and full test cases of the real time project. Given scenario and test cases are not complete.

    Reply
  39. I downloaded your Live Project Sample SRS Document but I can’t find the actual link for that sample.
    What I am actually looking for is the actual demo link for that Live Project Sample SRS Document.

    Reply
  40. Thank you, I am glad to read your blog. I always prefer to read your blog and found them very useful. I would like to suggest that you can please mention to me from where I can start my live project training. There is a lot of good information on this blog, I’d like to share and I think people will get a lot of support from this blog. All the blogs indexed above are very beneficial for each software program tester to improve their skills.

    Reply
  41. can you send me any projects with all the issues involved in that project( different industries) as a software tester would do.greatly appreciate your help

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  42. Hello!
    I have heard about this training article from my friend and her feedback was very much positive and effective. So, now i am starting learning this course. I hope this will be helpful for me too. 🙂

    Reply
    • Hi Anila,
      According to my knowledge, After gathering of BRs the team has a rough idea of how the system should look like. Depending on that most of the time Designers and Architectures roughly decide the flow of applications through wireframes. Those may be the figures included in SRS.

      Thank you

      Reply
  43. I want QA real software test free course. I will be appropriated to you. If any question don’t hesitate to call me.

    Pradip Das
    267 777 0423

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  44. Greetings for the Day!

    Thanks for this Hug of Knowledge 🙂
    Although I am an experienced tester, but sometimes we miss some important things in basic QA processes.

    I must say this is the perfect article if someone wants to start a career as QA.

    Thanks!!

    Reply
  45. Hello, I loved your content and I like to read your blogs. I used to find them very useful. It use to contain very informational knowledge. Thank you for sharing with us. I am glad that I came to read this.

    Reply
  46. Swati is great. I’ve completed The Best Software Testing Training You Will Ever Get, and she is such a great fascilitator, explaining everything very clearly, patiently and thoroughly. 🙂

    Reply
  47. hi,
    i am MBA Graduate. (NON IT Background.)
    i studied articles. but my question is about QTP.
    is QTP have more coding knowledge?
    can any one suggest me…..

    Thank you.

    Reply
  48. This is a great website with numerous free information for someone like myself who is starting the testing certification with no or little knowledge of IT. It would be helpful if you could possibly have a section where we can apply for jobs especially for someone who has never worked in this industry. – Thank you!

    Reply
  49. Good explanation….!!!! But In waterfall model only 2 phases initiate and define are discussed,will the remaning be discussed in next part??

    Please anyone of you clarify my doubt.

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  50. I am a regular visitor of your Articles and Material, videos in youtube about QA Testing. I appreciate your continuous efforts to the QA beginners and Community as a whole. great Karthick!!

    Reply
  51. This is brilliant. looking forward to it and also courses such as how to test a web app and a mobile app project using selenium/one or two commercial mobile automated testing tools. Cheers and keep it up

    Reply
  52. I couldnot understand one thing, SRS is made before the softaware is made or after that..because we are including screen shots from working software, but SRS is made in define phase which is just second phase of the SDLC..

    Reply
  53. 1> How much testing is enough testing?
    2.What do you envision the relationship between manual and automated testing being? How do you determine which tests are good candidates forautomation?
    3.When is it appropriate to perform functional testing? Integration testing? Regression testing?
    4.What does your ideal developer/QA relationship look like?

    Reply
  54. Hi,

    As mentioned above, test data can be in any format like xml test data, system test data, SQL test data; can u get a sample test data. I did not understand by SQL data. Any sample test data .

    Reply
  55. Hello Sir,
    Thank you posting this Articles. Really i helped this article.
    Using this articles i learned Devops course.
    Also i want to start the Python. can you share

    Reply
  56. You are the great team…working for very kind help for enhancement of testing knowledge among new testers…keep it up guys….I appreciate you!!!!

    Reply
  57. Its great initiative and very helpful for freshers to understand testing concept in detail…..
    Keep it up …vijay.

    Reply
  58. Hi,
    i m fresher in this field so i want to introducing and describe software testing training step by step .i am looking a testing job in gurgoan.

    Reply
  59. Very good training, Even though being a tester I was not so knowledgeable . This training taught me plenty. I wish all the very best for the team behind this effort.

    Please tell me anybody knows if there is any firm who take testers as a trainee?

    Reply
  60. Thanks a lot for providing such an amazing blog. I am amazed by reading your blog. I would be suggesting others also for reading your blog content. I would be glad if you can provide me blog on the software testing online course.

    Reply
  61. this is OrangneHRM Dummy aka fake project given by seed infotech faculty. They dont explain or teach write test case, test plan, . How to find bugs.
    there is no defect in project.

    I have waste money to join Seed Infotech .
    Please dont join seed infotech, MIND script, Squad Infotech in Mumbai

    Reply
  62. Hi friends,
    If any one of you is interested in learning manual testing please reach out to me .
    I have one year of experience in manual testing.

    Reply
  63. Thank you. I’ve been searching for a practical dummy project. This course is what I really need.Since I am a fresher these kinds of articles sounds wonderful to me.

    Reply
  64. Hello,

    Large project with lots of testing and self-certiication. For apps that should test, but IT Owneers that choose not to… I need verbiage for the IT Owner to “sign off” that that accept the risk of not certifying. Any advice appreciated.

    Reply
  65. Hi Team,

    It was really great explanation with the sample live project and if you are proving any live project experience please let me know

    Reply

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