📝 Manual Testing
Apply core manual QA skills through scenario-driven assignments — writing test cases, filing developer-actionable bug reports, running exploratory testing sessions, and building test plans from scratch. Pairs directly with the Manual Software Testing course.
Test cases · Exploratory · Bug reports
// Practical Assignments(9)
Login Flow — Test Case Writing
Write a comprehensive manual test suite for a login page: functional cases, negative paths, security checks, and accessibility considerations, to interview-grade standards.
Bug Report Writing
Practice writing clear, reproducible bug reports for a set of observed defects — covering severity vs. priority, environment details, steps to reproduce, and evidence notes to developer-actionable standard.
Requirements Review
Review a feature's acceptance criteria before development begins — identify gaps, ambiguities, and risks, write clarifying questions, produce improved testable criteria, and generate an initial test-ideas list with traceability.
Exploratory Testing Charter
Design and execute a session-based exploratory testing charter for a user registration feature — practising mission-focused charter writing, structured session notes, risk-based coverage, and SBTM debrief technique.
Test Plan From Scratch
Write a lightweight but complete test plan for an Order Tracking feature release — covering scope, risk-based approach, entry/exit criteria, test types, test data, environments, responsibilities, and a reporting strategy that non-QA stakeholders can act on.
E-commerce Checkout Manual Testing
Manually test a realistic e-commerce checkout flow — cart management, shipping, payment edge cases, guest vs. registered paths, order-summary totals, and regression checklist — to production-QA standard.
Cross-Browser Testing
Plan and execute browser and device compatibility testing for a web application — building a prioritised browser/device matrix, documenting rendering and functional differences, and producing a stakeholder-ready compatibility summary report.
Accessibility Manual Checks
Perform manual WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility checks — keyboard navigation, focus-order audit, screen-reader smoke test, form-label verification, and colour-contrast assessment — producing actionable issue reports with remediation guidance.
Test Execution & Evidence Pack
Execute a set of 15 test cases across a practice application, record definitive pass/fail/blocked results with traceable evidence notes, cross-reference defects, and produce a stakeholder-ready coverage summary report for a product-owner sign-off meeting.