Campus contact for this program:
Professor Farshad Ravanshad, FRavanshad@hcc.commnet.edu

Certificate

This certificate program is designed to provide the fundamental software testing and quality assurance knowledge and skills required for entry-level positions in software testing and quality assurance. The program has as its learning outcomes the demonstrated proficiency in the skills listed below:

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the information technology field, demonstrate problem-solving and creative-thinking skills
• Apply programming concepts and techniques and utilize a programming language to design, code, compile, execute and debug programs
• Apply relational database concepts to query and manipulate data in relational databases
• Apply web development principles and technologies including HTML and CSS to create functional web pages
• Demonstrate a basic understating of the Linux operating system, its GUI and command-line environments, and its tools
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of computer science concepts and skills necessary for software testing and quality assurance
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the role of different software technologies and software components
• Demonstrate an understanding of and appreciation for the need for software quality assurance
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the fundamentals of software testing
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of error, fault, failure, debugging, validation concepts and creation of test cases in the correct format
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of integration, system, and acceptance testing
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of software development life cycle and necessary environments for writing, deploying and testing software
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate various software testing tools