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Exam 98379
Software Testing Fundamentals

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Published: September 20, 2013


Languages: English
Audiences: Academic
Technology: Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
Credit toward certification: Microsoft Technology Associate MTA
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Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the
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Describe testing fundamentals 1520%
Describe software testing
Measure software quality and testing benefits
Describe software and hardware components
Distinguish operating systems, network, data, and hardware and software and their interaction
and dependencies
Describe fundamentals of programming
Data types; distinguish programming languages, such as compiled or interpreted; and analyze
simple algorithms
Describe application lifecycle management
Agile, waterfall, spiral, product and project lifecycles

Describe testing methodology 1015%


Describe testing techniques
Manual testing, automated testing, distinguish black box and white box testing
Describe testing levels
Unit, component, and integration testing
Describe testing types
Functional, performance structural, regression, security, stress, accessibility, usability, and
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localization testing

Create software tests 2025%


Describe usercentric testing
Business need and issues, customer requirements, and scenarios
Describe software testability
Testdriven development and testing hooks
Create test plan components
Test schedule, scope, methodology, scenarios, and tools
Describe feature tests
Distinguish the functionality in the appropriate feature test
Define appropriately scoped test cases
Boundary conditions, level of detail, and validity

Manage software testing projects 1520%


Describe testing milestones
Process fundamentals, exit criteria, and sign off
Describe the agile process
Scrum, kanban, and sprint management
Work with distributed teams
Communication, risk management, schedule management, and delivery process
Define test reports
Define appropriate status and project report components, define reporting cadence to meet
project milestones, identify appropriate recipients for various report types

Work with bugs 1520%


Detect software defects
Executing test cases, running automation scripts
Log bugs
Priority, severity, dependency, and repro steps
Manage bugs
Triage, resolution, closing, monitoring, and bug summary reports

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Automate software testing 1015%


Describe test automation
Benefits, candidates for automation, and automation process
Define test automation strategies
Code coverage, logging, and automation priority
Write automation tests
Logic, error handling, commenting, and virtual machines
Manage test scripts
Smoke test, build verification test, and lab management

Who should take this exam?


Candidates for this exam are seeking to prove core testing skills. Before taking this exam, candidates should
have solid foundational knowledge of the topics outlined on this exam details page. It is recommended that
candidates be familiar with the concepts of and have some handson experience with the technologies or
practices described here, either by taking relevant training courses or by working with tutorials and samples
available on MSDN and in Microsoft Visual Studio.

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