A guest lecture on “ Software Test Automation” was organized by the Department of Computer Applications for the students of MCA by Mr. Shrikrishna Bhat, Associate Manager – Quality Control, Glowtouch Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mangaluru on March 9 th 2019 at Bishop Aloysius Paul Hall from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The objective of the talk was to give an idea about the practices of Software Testing at an IT organization and understand the basic Test Concepts with respect to organization requirement. The incharge HOD of MCA Department, Ms Sumangala N welcomed the gathering and introduced the guest speaker. Ms Sadhana Kumble, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications gave a floral welcome to the speaker. The speaker Mr Srikrishna Bhat began the session with a brainstorming activity and made an attempt in bringing a common understanding of the scope of testing activity. He also covered the topics Software Development and testing life cycles and introduced the terminologies used in the testing work. He showed students how to write test cases manually and showed sample test cases generated using automation tool. He made students understand the required test skills of developers. Finally he gave a quick introduction to automation including the automation tools Selenium and Smartbear test Complete.
