Review a variety of different SDLC approaches—from traditional methods to more modern processes—and learn about their applicability in software development.

Learn about software development project management including systems and tools.

Write better bugs. Learn best practices for identifying, documenting, and tracking issues discovered during software testing.

Learn the essentials of continuous testing. Explores tools and techniques for running automated tests in a continuous integration pipeline and incorporating DevOps into QA.

Learn the best practices and processes involved in effectively managing a quality test.

Launch a successful test of a new software application, regardless of scale. Learn about the entire planning process, from evaluating a product to communicating results.

While spontaneity may be fun and valued in many instances in life, there are certainly areas where you don’t want to leave things up to chance or make an uninformed decision—buying a house, interviewing for a job, running a marathon. These are all things that require preparation, and doing them on the fly could produce disastrous results. As Mike Fine explains in this course, the same can be said for software testing. Join Mike as he teaches the many ways that your preparation for a test ends up impacting your overall results. He reviews the various phases of testing and the different ways to prepare for alpha, beta, and delta testing. Even if you’re an experienced quality tester, Mike shows the importance of reviewing the mundane details that you might do every day and rarely think about, where one small, missed item—an expired software license, for example—might cause your whole test to collapse.

We may marvel at a musician or athlete for their high level of skill and execution, but equally as important as their mastery of skills is their incredible technique in applying those skills. Technique is something you develop to ensure that whatever you deliver is the best possible outcome of your work, and in this course, Mike Fine applies this idea to software testing. As Mike shows, the more refined and honed your skills are, the better the results of your testing. Whether you’re a software tester looking to add to your skills, or prepping for an ISTQB certification, mastering many different test techniques only increases the chances that you have the tools to accomplish any task. Mike covers key techniques like black-box testing, white-box testing, and experienced-based testing. As these techniques are often full of esoteric lingo and complicated terminology, Mike also gives some advice on how to communicate your testing process so your results aren’t lost in technical jargon.

Learn how testing fits into the different phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC), as well as the most notable project management approaches.

Get fresh insights to enhance your skills as a software tester. Tune in each week for tips on everything from communication to continuous testing.

Agile is quickly overtaking waterfall as the methodology for developing products. This brings interesting and important challenges as well as a mind shift in executing Alpha tests. Testing has more complexities that you might imagine. There are a variety of approaches, procedures, and strategies for conducting testing throughout a product test. This course with Mike Fine focuses on illuminating the variable and proven techniques used to achieve quality assurance on products, and the issues and challenges you may encounter when switching from the traditional Waterfall methodology of product development to the agile processes. Mike covers the basic concepts of what makes quality testing, goes over existing processes, how to transition to agile testing, key techniques and tools, and analyzes best practices for communication, product delivery, and timing, testing, and alignment.

Learn how to use exploratory testing to immediately add value at any point in a product’s development.

Deliver high-quality mobile apps to market by learning how to develop a system and strategy for effective testing.

Survey the most popular software testing tools available, including paid and open-source solutions such as Selenium, Postman, JMeter, and Kali Linux.

Shows how to create manufacturing-ready parts and assemblies in SOLIDWORKS 2012.

Start creating manufacturing-ready parts and assemblies, as well as detailed drawings and bills of materials with SOLIDWORKS 2014.

Review the essential tools and modeling concepts necessary to design efficiently in SOLIDWORKS.

Explore the new features and enhanced tools in SOLIDWORKS 2016 , the leading 3D CAD software for designing sheet metal, weldments, surfacing, and tool-and-die parts and assemblies.

Get up to speed with SOLIDWORKS 2017, and learn how to design efficiently in the latest version of this popular software.

Check out SOLIDWORKS features including transparent views, magnetic mates, bidirectional circular patterns, treehouse improvements, variable chamfers, and the Advanced Hole Wizard.