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Plan and run a two-week sprint on a small project, with a backlog and a retrospective.
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Computer science · 18Intermediate
Software Quality & DevSecOps
Testers, QA leads or agile project managers.
Agile methods, software lifecycle, automated testing and security by design.
264hours of coursework
27weeks at 10 h
4steps
16courses
3universities
Target skills
Software ArchitectureAgile Software DevelopmentAgile MethodologyDesign ThinkingUser StoryUsability TestingSoftware DesignApplication SecuritySoftware Design PatternsSoftware Development Life CycleTest AutomationUnit Testing
Skill labels as listed on Coursera.
Target jobs
- QA engineer
- Software tester
- Scrum master
- DevSecOps engineer
Progression
- 1University of VirginiaBeginner
Stated prerequisites: Basic understanding of digital product development (helpful, not required)
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Agile Meets Design Thinking Beginner 9 h 4.7 (3,582) Hypothesis-Driven Development — 11 h 4.7 (1,017) Product Analytics and AI Beginner 15 h 4.7 (516) Managing an Agile Team — 11 h 4.7 (1,385) - 2University of MinnesotaIntermediate
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Software Development Processes and Methodologies Beginner 21 h 4.7 (2,135) Agile Software Development Intermediate 13 h 4.7 (7,485) Lean Software Development Beginner 11 h 4.6 (433) Engineering Practices for Building Quality Software Intermediate 18 h 4.5 (476) - 3University of MinnesotaIntermediateJava, JUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium, OWASP
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Introduction to Software Testing Intermediate 30 h 4.3 (839) Black-box and White-box Testing Intermediate 26 h 3.8 (117) Introduction to Automated Analysis Intermediate 19 h 4.2 (87) Web and Mobile Testing with Selenium Intermediate 20 h 3.7 (111) - 4University of Colorado SystemBeginnerJava, NetBeans, JUnit, IBM Rhapsody
Stated prerequisites: Knowing how to code in some language; workplace software development experience helpful
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Software Design as an Element of the Software Development Lifecycle — 11 h 4.6 (253) Software Design as an Abstraction Intermediate 16 h 4.7 (135) Software Design Methods and Tools — 14 h — Software Design Threats and Mitigations Intermediate 19 h 4.6 (94)
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Projects to build
Test coverage
Raise the test coverage of an open-source project and submit the contribution.
Threat model
Analyse a web application with the STRIDE method and propose countermeasures.
Free textbooks
Software Engineering at GoogleT. Winters, T. Manshreck, H. Wright (eds.)Free online, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
The Scrum GuideK. Schwaber, J. SutherlandFree