Sep 16, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Software Testing and Automation (STACC)

Location(s): Fort Omaha Campus, South Omaha Campus, Online


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Award: Career Certificate
Academic Focus Area: Information Technology
 

Software testing, automated testing, and software quality assurance have all become a large discipline in information technology. With the growing need for companies to serve better products faster, the importance of software testing, in turn, has grown. Software testers are increasingly expected to be skilled in not only manual testing processes, but also in automated testing, Agile methodologies, and continuous integration tools. These skills range from writing automation scripts using scripting languages, system and web administration, aspects of project management and collaboration to unit testing.

The Software Testing and Automation career certificate will provide effective tools and knowledge for those involved in all stages of Software Development and testing processes such as UI testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Unit testing, and more. In the scope of Agile and Behavior Driven Development, students will develop skills necessary to ensure well documented testing, establish processes, correctly interpret and reproduce results, and collaborate with various audiences.

All courses must have a grade of C or better to complete.

 

Graduation Requirements
To earn this degree, a student must complete all required courses.
Total credit hours required to complete this career certificate: 36.0
 

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Software Testing and Automation (STACC)

The following plan is designed to be the most direct path to degree completion and is based on a fall, winter, spring, summer quarter start. Students are expected to meet with their student success navigator or advisor to plan a customized course schedule that meets their specific needs. For more information or assistance with registering, please call 531-622-2400. 

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