To pay the tuition   - https://online.portnov.net/product/software-quality-assurance/
Preferred method of paying the tuition:
- Zelle (if you are US)
- SWIFT (if you are overseas)
- Paypal
- Creditcard, Googlepay (3% or 4% is outside of US)

www.portnov.net - online class website
www.portnov.com - campus web site
https://online.portnov.net/onlinehome/      		- class page for the first 3 trial sessions
http://www.forum.portnov.com/   4970elcamino            - class forum for homework


THREE COMPONENTS OF JOB MARKET/INTERVIEW SUCCESS
1. Test planning = test cases
2. Bug reporting 
3. Talking about the projects (Project = Experience)


JOB MARKET NUMBERS (FEB 4, 2021)
__________________________________________________________
Area			Jobs			People
__________________________________________________________
Silicon Valley		348			 40
Los Angeles		197			 15
New York		467			 40
Chicago			184			 25
Miami			 70			 10
Boston			197			 15
Dallas			273			 20
Atlanta			165			 20
DC			119			 30
Charlotte		109			 10
Austin			128			  8
Orange County		167			 15
Rockville, MD		700+			 70
Seattle			125			 10
Tampa, FL 		 60			  6



WHY DO WE TALK ABOUT UI/USABILITY TESTING AT ALL??? 	UI vs GUI, Command line user interface
1. You start reporting bugs from the day 1 = make a good impression = helps to keep the job
2. Few people have an idea of UI rules = you bring an expertise, which does not exist there
3. Easy to pick up



Developers test their code. What software testers are needed for?
- Regression testing
- Negative testing
- Testers are looking at bigger picture


EXPLORATORY TESTING
Exploratory:
	- plan
		- execute
			- learn

Ad Hoc:            ========================NEVER call it monkey testing
	- plan
	- execute
	- learn



AUT - application under test

Gray Box Testing:
- extention of black box testing
- some extra knowledge is needed
- a lot/most of the web testing is gray box
- tools/programming languages will be used
	- Ex.1: Write and execute SQL statement against the database to validate the data integrity
	- Ex.2: Analyzing/Parsing log files 
	- Ex.3: REST API Testing with Postman

What are the common stages of Software Development Life Cycle? - waterfall model
- analysis   (business reqs)
- requirements (product, functional)
- design (architecture)
- coding/development/implementation
- testing
- maintenance

MESSAGES
- Error message 
	* confusing
	* misleading
- Warning message



===============================BUG REPORTS ENERGY-TELECOM====================
#1 "ZIP" field accepts letters instead of being digits only
#2 No default input focus on the page ("First Name" field might be a good candidate)
#3 Push button "Clear": misleading/confusing message pops up. Nothing is cleared.
#4 "Submit" and "Clear" buttons are not consistent in font size and dimentions
#5 "State" listbox: remove "BC" item
#6 "State" listbox: replace “IND” with "IN"
#7 TAB ORDER problem: from "FIRST NAME" field, it goes to "REFERRED BY" instead of "LAST NAME" field




===============================BUG REPORTS TAULIA====================
#1 In “Search My Invoices” section all the labels should have a colon at the end
#2 Incorrect number of results per page: 11 instead of 10 (as per "Results per page" listbox).
#3 Inconsistency in date format: "Invoice date" field (6/5/2011) vs Inv.Date Column (22-Aug-2011)
#4 First cell in "Status" colum: replace "Rejcted" with "Rejected" 


=========================RULES OF BUG REPORTING==============================
1. Bug report is of either SOLUTION or PROBLEM type
2. WWW (good enough bug report) - the order is not important
	W - What happened?
	W - Where it happend
	W - under Which circumstances it happend


Happy Path Testing - making sure the system does work properly when you do correct steps (Positive)


JOB RESUME BULLETS FOR TODAY'S ACTIVITIES
* Write and execute SQL statement against the database to validate the data integrity
* Study product requirements
* Take part in UI testing along the guidelins provided by US Dept. of Health and Human Services
* Identify software defects and report them to Jira
* Created test cases for functionality and regression testing