XML Basics for Testers and QA Professionals (Elective)

This tutorial covers the Elective area of the Test Management Body of Knowledge (TMBOK) required for the Certified Test Manager (CTM) certification. This tutorial also covers the Elective area of the Certified Software Test Professional requirements.

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Concepts

This course is designed to provide software testing and quality assurance professionals with the knowledge necessary to plan, design and execute tests for applications that involve XML technologies. It covers the basics of XML, its implementation to support application programming interfaces and specifically web services, ways to validate the format and the contents of XML messages and methods to test XML-based applications.

Participants will learn:

• The principal vocabulary of XML technologies
• Fundamentals of XML files, Document Type model and XML schema
• Definition and applications of Web Services
• Basics of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
• XML validation: the meaning of Well-formed and Valid XML
• Common tools for XML validation
• Methods of testing XML-based applications
• Where to look for additional resources

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