In our quest to better equip students for a successful career in testing, we have structured our course
in Quality Assurance (Testing) to address practical scenarios in a simpler but comprehensive way. The
concept of “Test Scenarios” requires extra emphasis and importance as it identifies all scenarios to be
tested for that particular application from an end-user’s perspective. These individual scenario’s form
the building blocks of the core testing process as they breakdown the actual test process into logical
steps which need to be divided and individually tested. They also help in designing the actual test cases
and are very helpful in designing complex and combinational scenarios which represents the actual
set of steps a user would be taking while using that application. A well structured set of test scenarios
would adequately cover all the instances that need to be tested by breaking them into individual blocks
or user generated sequence of steps. Students can take this online Quality Assurance course right from
their desktops and have a successful career in testing.
Role of a test scenario in the Testing Process: In defining a test scenario, we take into account the
actual working of the application as per the given business flow, and see how it performs in the hands of
the end-user. It can be seen as a very important constituent of the testing process as it allows evaluation
of the practical objectives of the application in the hands of the end-user which is the ultimate goal of
the testing process. It can be understood that a test scenario will consist of many associated test cases
as each unit of the user action might need a separate test case. For example, a sample scenario can have
the functionality of the application login screen to be tested. For such a scenario, we have multiple test
cases such as those involving different field actions (username and password) by the user etc.
How does it help for a Successful career in Testing?: This module in the online testing course helps
students better understand the different ways to create a test scenario. The main aspects that help
in generating an effective test scenario are emphasized; such as from Use Cases (From actual user-
application interaction), from breaking down the core functionalities (Individual features/services of
the application), and from a transactional viewpoint (Here the status of an entity is changed by user
transactions when a specific feature of the application is used). This is for the student to understand the
importance of preparing effective test scenarios and applying them to better address the test process
by creating effective test cases. This helps them in practically understanding the test process better and
they can develop an analysis of the test process from an end-users viewpoint by following our specially
designed online Quality Assurance course in software testing.