Training Courses
Without the right practical and specific training, an organisation will not be able to realise the full potential of any internal testing program. SQS Training offers you a single source for Mercury tools training, ISEB certification courses and general and specific testing related training.
Certification
ISEB Foundation  |
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| ISEB Certification is recognised as the essential measurement to prove knowledge of the fundamental principles of testing techniques for those making a career in testing. | ||
| Course code: ISEBFC | Duration: 3 days | Booking enquiry |
| ISEB Intermediate |
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| The new ISEB Practitioner Certificate in Software Testing enables testers to specialise as either a test analyst or a test manager. This course leads to the ISEB Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing examination which, as well as being a pre-requisite for both the test analysis or test manager qualifications, provides essential knowledge and skills for both test analysts and test managers. | ||
| Course code: ISEBIC | Duration: 3 days | Booking enquiry |
| The new ISEB Practitioner Certificate in Test Management enables testers to specialise as a test manager. This course leads to the ISEB Practitioner Certificate in Test Management examination which provides essential knowledge and skills for test managers. Attendees will gain an advanced knowledge of risk management, test management, test techniques, test coverage, test tools selection and implementation, people skills and test process improvement methodology and will also be fully prepared, and have the best possible chance to score highly, when sitting the ISEB Practitioner Certificate in Test Management examination. | ||
| Course code: ISEBP-TM | Duration: 3 days | Booking enquiry |
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| Course code: ISEBP-TA | Duration: 3 days | Booking enquiry |
Practical Testing
| Applied Testing Techniques |
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| Rather than provide an overview of as many techniques as possible this course focuses on the most useful techniques that will give a measurable benefit when implemented on a testing project. | ||
| Course code: SQS-ATT | Booking enquiry |
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| Practical Test Design |
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| This course is aimed at individuals who are involved in the day-to-day activities of identifying and writing tests. Though discussion and hands-on exercises it looks at the process of identifying and designing functional test cases for System Testing and / or UAT. | ||
| Course code: SQS-PTD | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Practical Test Planning |
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| Test analysts and test team leaders need to understand how to plan, estimate and schedule testing tasks and resources. Following a well defined process and based on a detailed case study this course gives practical experience in planning, estimating and scheduling software testing within software development projects. | ||
| Course code: SQS-TP | Booking enquiry |
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| Practical Testing Processes |
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| This course aims to give practical experience in planning, designing and implementing tests for system testing and acceptance testing. | ||
| Course code: SQS-PTP | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Requirements Testing |
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| The earlier that testing can be implemented then the lower the final cost of development will be. Errors found at the end of the development lifecycle are very expensive and time consuming to correct. As requirements drive the entire development sequence, it is vital to ensure that they are as accurate, complete and consistent as possible. Any deviations will inevitably lead to redevelopment costs and delays in implementation. | ||
| Course code: SQS-REQ | Duration: 1 day | Booking enquiry |
| Testing Basics |
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| This course aims to address the key issues for a person who is new to software testing or who is going to be involved with software testing. As a new tester, an individual needs to understand why we test software, what is software testing and some of the key terms & principles of software testing. | ||
| Course code: SQS-TB1 | Duration: 1 day | Booking enquiry |
| Test Estimation |
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| Testers never have enough time. But how long should we have to test? How long will enough testing take? This course looks at current estimation techniques to aid accurate test estimation. The course covers the seven methods of estimation, with the positives and negatives for each method based on the experience SQS has gained over the years working in many industries. | ||
| SQS-TE | Duration: 1 day | Booking enquiry |
| Test Management |
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| Over the years, software testing has become more challenging and complex, making management of this process vital to the success of any IT project. This two-day course will investigate a pragmatic and proven approach to successful Test Management. | ||
| Course code: SQS-TM | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| User Acceptance Testing |
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| This interactive workshop will deliver a fully documented guide to implementing effective UAT together with in-depth analysis of real case studies. The tutor will be an experienced senior manager who has delivered and managed many successful UAT projects. The tutor will work closely with the delegates to relate the workshop content to match their specific topics – ensuring that real answers are delivered at the end of the course. | ||
| Course code: SQS-UAT | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Managing User Acceptance Testing |
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| This course will show how effective User Acceptance Testing (UAT) can benefit the business and be successfully deployed. | ||
| Course code: SQS-UTM | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
Specialist Testing
| Practical Performance Testing |
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| This course reveals a pragmatic approach to successful implementation of Load and Performance (L&P) Testing and uniquely provides typical solutions to performance problems. This course concentrates on the real-world planning, preparation and execution of effective L&P Testing and how to apply it in real business scenarios | ||
| Course code: SQS-LP | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Managing Test Environments |
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| This course helps delegates understand what is needed to successfully implement and manage test environments. It uses case studies and real life examples to highlight the need for quality environments, and how to create manage and maintain these. | ||
| Course code: SQS-MTE | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Practical Test Automation |
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| This course is aimed at those using, or planning to use, varieties of test execution tools and who wish to ensure that they have hands on knowledge of how to produce automation suites that really work in the real world. It covers the basics of automation, highlights the major considerations for the planning and preparation of automation and, using hands-on exercises with a market leading tool, looks at various approaches to automation. The course is delivered by an experienced practitioner who will have designed and implemented several successful automation programmes and will share their knowledge of how they achieved success. | ||
| Course code: SQS-PPT | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Testing Centre of Excellence |
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| The workshop will cover issues, objections and obstructions often encountered when setting up a Centre of Excellence, and will provide answers and counter arguments that have been effective in successful Centre of Excellence projects. The advantages that a Testing Centre of Excellence will deliver to a business and to a testing project are described and detailed. | ||
| Course code: SQS-TCE | Duration: 1 day | Booking enquiry |
Test Tools
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| Using QualityCenter |
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| The process-based functionality of QualityCenter is examined in this hands-on course. Students will learn how to manage quality information throughout the development cycle, construct and organize requirements, create and execute test sets, monitor defects, and use graphs and reports to track the success of a project. | ||
| Course code: QC92USG | Duration: 1 day | Booking enquiry |
| QualityCenter Project Planning & Customisation |
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| This hands-on course focuses on planning, creating and customizing Quality Centre projects. It is an important course for anyone who will be involved in creating projects, modifying existing fields, creating user defined fields, creating user defined fields, creating users, setting user permissions, and defining basic workflow. | ||
| Course code: QC92PPC | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Using the QualityCenter Dashboard |
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| This hands-on course covers the features of the Quality Center 9.2 Dashboard. This course explains how to extract information from your Quality Center projects to create and view charts and graphs in the Dashboard. The charts and graphs enable you to make cross-project comparisons. | ||
| Course code: QC92DB | Duration: 1 day | Booking enquiry |
| HP Business Process Testing | ||
| Using QualityCenter with BPT |
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| The process-based functionality of TestDirector is examined in this hands-on course, with an emphasis on the Business Process Testing module. Students will learn how to manage quality information throughout the development cycle, construct and organize requirements, create business process test components, create test cases and test sets based on the components, execute test sets in the test lad, monitor defects, and use graphs and reports to track the success of a project. | ||
| Course code: TDBPT82USG | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Using QuickTest Professional with BPT |
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| This two-day fundamental course prepares the automation engineer to implement the Business Process testing (BPT) framework. The class includes hands-on-labs to illustrate the responsibilities of the automation engineer when implementing components for BPT. This course assumes the student has knowledge of both QA practices and QTP fundamentals. | ||
| Course code: QTPBPT90USG | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| BPT Hands-On Lab |
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| This one-day hands-on lab is the culmination of the QualityCenter BPT Suite, as students apply the skills they learned during the week to a project-oriented scenario. Working in teams, and starting from an existing requirements document, students create components, test cases, test sets, and defect entries as they test and evaluate a working application. This highly structured experience is the perfect way to ensure a functional understanding of using Business Process Testing in QualityCenter. | ||
| Course code: QC82LAB | Duration: 1 day | Booking enquiry |
| HP Functional Testing | ||
| Using QuickTest Professional |
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| 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. | ||
| Course code: QTP92USG | Duration: 3 days | Booking enquiry |
| Advanced QuickTest Professional |
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| 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 Data Table methods and database connection objects to retrieve external data. | ||
| Course code: QTP92ADV | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Using QTP for SAP |
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| This hands-on course covers the tasks that are performed by manual SAP testers, SAP testers who have used Mercury WinRunner QTP for SAP, and technical SAP team members to create and enhance the testing of SAP 6.4–based applications. | ||
| Course code: QTP90SAP | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Using WinRunner |
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| WinRunner records user actions and application responses to create scripts that 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. | ||
| Course code: WR92USG | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| Advanced WinRunner |
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| Advanced WinRunner teaches students to use programming and troubleshooting techniques to enhance their automated test scripts to achieve greater test coverage for their applications. | ||
| Course code: WR92ADV | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| HP LoadRunner | ||
| HP LoadRunner |
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| This suite of 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. A Hands-On Lab is included. | ||
| Course code: LR90WEB | Duration: 5 days | Booking enquiry |
| Fundamentals of LoadRunner |
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| The following components of LoadRunner – LR Controller and LR Analysis are used to plan for an effective load test. You will create and run load test scenarios using the LR Controller. The LR Analysis component is used to analyze load test results. You will learn to interpret LoadRunner analysis graphs and achieve your load testing goals. | ||
| Course code: LR90FUN | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| LoadRunner VuGen Scripting for Web |
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| The LoadRunner Virtual User Generator (VuGen) is a scripting tool used to record and run user actions on the application to be tested. This course focuses on planning, creating and enhancing Virtual User (VUser) scripts using VuGen for load testing in the Web environment. Extensive hands-on labs equip you with the skills necessary to create effective load test scripts for load testing in the Web environment. | ||
| Course code: VG90WEB | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |
| LoadRunner Hands-On Lab |
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| This one day hands-on lab is designed to provide comprehensive understanding of all the concepts learned in the LoadRunner suite of courses. The lab involves students in building an effective load testing script and then running a load test against the Mercury Tours application to achieve the given performance goals. This activity will validate your newly acquired knowledge on LoadRunner and on techniques for load testing Web systems. | ||
| Course code: LR90LAB | Duration: 1 day | Booking enquiry |
| VuGen for SAP |
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| Mercury Interactive's VuGen (Virtual User Generator) is a scripting tool that enables you to record and run user actions on the application you want to test. This course teaches students to create and enhance SAPWINGUI 6.2 Vusers (Virtual Users) for functional and load testing. | ||
| Course code: VG81SAP | Duration: 2 days | Booking enquiry |