Description
Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback — Professional Course
Introduction
Continuous Testing for Secure, High-Quality Software — master practical strategies to embed testing, quality gates,
security checks, and rapid feedback into modern CI/CD pipelines so your teams deliver reliable software faster.
This hands-on course shows engineers, QA specialists, and DevOps professionals how to design and operate an
automated, measurable quality workflow that balances speed with risk reduction.
Course Overview
This course is a comprehensive, practical program covering the principles and tooling for Continuous Testing,
Quality Assurance, Security-in-the-Loop, and Feedback-driven delivery. Through a mix of theory, real-world case
studies, and guided labs, you will learn how to implement automated test strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end,
performance and security testing), measure quality with metrics, enforce policy gates, and close the loop with rapid
developer feedback.
What You Will Learn
- Design and implement a Continuous Testing strategy aligned with CI/CD pipelines.
- Integrate static analysis, dependency scanning and dynamic security testing into build pipelines.
- Create reliable automated test suites (unit, component, integration, E2E) and manage flaky tests.
- Define measurable quality gates and key metrics (coverage, MTTR, test pass rate, defect density).
- Set up feedback loops (alerts, PR checks, dashboards) to reduce lead time and accelerate remediation.
- Use test parallelization, test impact analysis, and test data management to reduce test time and cost.
- Apply shift-left and shift-right testing practices for early detection and production observability.
Course Modules & Syllabus
- Foundations: Continuous Testing principles, testing pyramid vs. trophy, quality culture.
- Automated Unit & Integration Testing: Best practices, mocking, contract tests.
- End-to-End & UI Testing: Reliable E2E design, avoiding flakiness, test orchestration.
- Performance & Reliability Testing: Load, stress and chaos experimentation basics.
- Security Testing: Static Analysis (SAST), Dynamic Testing (DAST), dependency scanning and secrets detection.
- CI/CD Integration: Pipeline design, parallelization, test stages, environment strategies.
- Quality Metrics & Feedback: Dashboards, alerts, PR checks, and continuous improvement loops.
- Capstone Lab: Build a fully instrumented pipeline with automated tests, security scans, and a quality gate.
Who Should Take This Course
This course is designed for software engineers, QA engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), DevOps practitioners,
engineering managers, and testers who want to operationalize quality and security across the delivery lifecycle.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of software development lifecycle and version control (Git).
- Familiarity with a programming language and CI/CD concepts.
- No prior experience in security testing is required; beginner-friendly modules are provided.
Format, Duration & Assessment
Format: Self-paced video lessons + guided labs and downloadable resources. Estimated effort: 25–40 hours depending on
hands-on lab completion. Assessments include module quizzes, lab exercises, and a final capstone project that demonstrates
an end-to-end continuous testing pipeline with security and quality gates.
Tools & Technologies Covered
The course covers widely used tools and concepts including CI/CD systems, test frameworks, container-based testing,
test runners and orchestration, SAST/DAST scanners, dependency and secrets scanners, and observability dashboards.
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