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Software Testing Courses

Software testing courses can help you learn test planning, test case design, automated testing, and performance testing. You can build skills in identifying bugs, writing effective test scripts, and using various testing methodologies. Many courses introduce tools like Selenium for automation, JUnit for unit testing, and JIRA for issue tracking, showing how these skills apply in real-world software development environments.


Popular Software Testing Courses and Certifications


  • U

    University of Colorado Boulder

    Embedded Software and Hardware Architecture

    Skills you'll gain: Embedded Software, Embedded Systems, Debugging, Data Structures, System Programming, Microarchitecture, C (Programming Language), Memory Management, Hardware Architecture, Computer Architecture, Software Design, Maintainability, System Configuration, Code Reusability, Software Architecture, Peripheral Devices

    4.5
    Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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    531 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Y

    Yale University

    Introduction to Medical Software

    Skills you'll gain: Clinical Trials, Software Development Life Cycle, Medical Devices, Software Quality Assurance, Usability, Medical Privacy, Software Quality (SQA/SQC), Verification And Validation, Human Factors, Biomedical Engineering, Risk Management, User Interface (UI), Software Design, Regulatory Compliance, Healthcare Project Management, Health Technology, Machine Learning, Software Testing, Entrepreneurship, User Research

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    293 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    U

    University of Michigan

    Python Data Structures

    Skills you'll gain: File I/O, Data Structures, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Dictionary, Python Programming, Data Manipulation, Software Installation, Data Store, File Management, Development Environment, Computer Programming Tools

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    97K reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • C

    Coursera

    Building API Test Automation Framework Using Rest Assured

    Skills you'll gain: API Testing, Test Automation, Test Script Development, Test Tools, Application Programming Interface (API), Restful API, Software Testing, Code Reusability, Configuration Management, Java Programming, Maintainability

    4.3
    Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
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    31 reviews

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    E

    EC-Council

    Ethical Hacking Essentials (EHE)

    Skills you'll gain: Penetration Testing, Threat Management, Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks, Cloud Security, Vulnerability Assessments, Security Testing, Network Security, Cyber Security Assessment, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Cyber Attacks, Brute-force attacks, Exploitation techniques, Human Factors (Security), Web Applications, Mobile Security, Internet Of Things, Wireless Networks

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    613 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    I

    IBM

    Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL

    Skills you'll gain: Dashboard Creation, Dashboard, Web Scraping, SQL, Descriptive Statistics, Data Visualization, Statistical Analysis, Jupyter, Data Presentation, Probability Distribution, R (Software), Statistics, Statistical Methods, Data Science, Database Management, Relational Databases, R Programming, Python Programming, NumPy, Data Analysis

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    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    75K reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    U

    University of Minnesota

    Black-box and White-box Testing

    Skills you'll gain: Cucumber (Software), Gherkin (Scripting Language), Software Testing, Testability, Test Case, White-Box Testing, Behavior-Driven Development, Code Coverage, Test Engineering, Functional Testing, Test Automation, JUnit, Requirements Analysis, Java Programming

    3.8
    Rating, 3.8 out of 5 stars
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    116 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    C

    Coursera

    Open-Source QA: Cypress, JMeter & xUnit Testing

    Skills you'll gain: JUnit, Test Automation, Test Tools, Test Script Development, Unit Testing, Software Testing, Performance Testing, Quality Assurance, Performance Stress Testing, IT Automation, Performance Tuning, Scripting, Debugging, Network Performance Management, Simulations

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    9 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    M

    Macquarie University

    Excel Skills for Business: Essentials

    Skills you'll gain: Excel Formulas, Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheet Software, Productivity Software, Data Analysis Software, Business Analytics, Analytical Skills

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    51K reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    I
    U
    I

    Multiple educators

    Data Science Foundations

    Skills you'll gain: Dashboard Creation, Dashboard, Web Scraping, Pseudocode, Jupyter, Algorithms, Data Literacy, Data Mining, Data Analysis, R (Software), Data Presentation, Correlation Analysis, Pandas (Python Package), NumPy, Predictive Modeling, Python Programming, Machine Learning Algorithms, Data Science, Machine Learning, Project Management

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    117K reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    I

    IBM

    Applied Software Engineering Fundamentals

    Skills you'll gain: Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, Linux Commands, Software Architecture, Bash (Scripting Language), Restful API, Shell Script, Git (Version Control System), GitHub, Full-Stack Web Development, Software Design, Flask (Web Framework), Version Control, File Management, Unix Shell, Linux, Application Deployment, Python Programming, NumPy, Data Analysis

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    52K reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

  • C

    Coursera

    Unit Testing in Java

    Skills you'll gain: Unit Testing, JUnit, Test Case, Software Testing, Software Development, Software Engineering, Java Programming, Java

    4.5
    Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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    25 reviews

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular software testing courses

  • Embedded Software and Hardware Architecture: University of Colorado Boulder
  • Introduction to Medical Software: Yale University
  • Python Data Structures: University of Michigan
  • Building API Test Automation Framework Using Rest Assured: Coursera
  • Ethical Hacking Essentials (EHE): EC-Council
  • Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL: IBM
  • Black-box and White-box Testing: University of Minnesota
  • Open-Source QA: Cypress, JMeter & xUnit Testing: Coursera
  • Excel Skills for Business: Essentials: Macquarie University
  • Data Science Foundations: IBM

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