Course Agenda for XML Testing Techniques

1. XML Concepts	Terminology What is XML? Separating form from content XML for delivering data to web pages XML for sharing data across systems XML for intelligent data in documents Group Workshop: Test Strategies based on XML application/use
2. XML Syntax	XML Tags XML Elements XML Attributes XML Instructions CDATA Group Workshop: Create an XML Document
3. Document Type Definition (DTD)	Introduction to DTD DTD-XML Building Blocks DTD Elements DTD Attributes DTD Entities Internal and external entities DTD Validation Parsers Group Workshop: Create a DTD
4. XML Schema	XML data structure and schema Named Types Content types Groups of elements and attributes Data Types Using the schema to validate an XML document Group Workshop: Testing data type consistency
5. XML and the Web	XML vs HTML vs XHTML Overview of Web services Validating and non-validating parsers Web display issues (CSS and XSL) Security and privacy Authentication Group Workshop: Test some XML web applications
6. XML API's	Overview of SAX Overview of DOM Overview of JAXB
7. Basic Functional and Performance Testing Considerations	How to test without an interface Building a data map to generate your test cases Generating XML documents for complete test coverage System performance and scalability testing UI and Load automation tools options Testing the functionality and data separately Group Workshop: Create a test data map Course Review