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Feedback for Software testing

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
 
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

https://goo.gl/forms/E1tu6UoiHLatiGDH2

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Final exam guidelines

Dear students,

Thank you for enrolling for the first edition of the course on Software Testing and special thanks to those who actively asked questions in the forum.

Here are some details about the final exam that is coming up next week.

--- The question paper is almost entirely multiple choice questions (MCQ) except for one or two questions which will be fill in the blanks. For the one or two fill in the blank questions, you are expected to just write the answer, no justification.
--- There is no negative marking in the exam, but, please do solve the problems before attempting to answer the questions.

Please write to me in the forum if you have any doubts while preparing for the final exam.

All the best,
Meenakshi.

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Hall ticket for October 22nd NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download

Dear Candidate:

If you have registered and paid successfully for the October 22nd NPTEL Online certification exam, your Admit Card/ Hall ticket is now available inside your application form:

1. Please visit the link: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its password to access the link and click on October exam to download the hall ticket(s) for the October 22nd exams, from the link.

2. You can also download it from the alternate link given below:

https://cdn3.digialm.com:443//EForms/configuredHtml/885/52549/login.html

Please try to access both the links to download your hall ticket, if you are not able to find your hall ticket in both the links., kindly write to us at nptel@iitm.ac.in.
 
Note: that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on October 22, 2017.

Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a original ID card, carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there in the hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.

Note1:- If you are writing 2 exams – Forenoon and Afternoon sessions, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets which will be hosted inside the login.
 
In case of the any problems with the hall ticket kindly write to us nptel@iitm.ac.in

IMPORTANT:

1. Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city will not be encouraged.
2. You will not be allowed to write the exam if you are showing up in the exam center which is not allocated to you by mistake or by intention.
3. Gate Entry beyond 09:30 AM in FN and 2:30 PM in AN will not be entertained.
4. Candidates will not be allowed to write the exam without Hall ticket and proper id proof.

NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL team

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Feedback for Week 11 and Week 12

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Week 12 Assessment

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Week 12 contents live

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Feedback for week 10

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Answer keys for assignments: Week 1 to week 9

Dear students,

Answer keys for assignments for week 1 to week 9 has been posted now in the forum, as one consolidated announcement containing pdf files as attachment.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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Feedback for week 9

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Week 11 contents live

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Week 11 Assessment

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Week 10 contents live

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Week 10 Assessment

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Last date for Exam Registartion Extended

Dear Candidates

Last date for exam registration have been extended till Sep 26th, 5pm (Tuesday).

Payment of the exam fee can be done till: Sep 27, 10am (Wednesday)

The certification exam will be conducted at designated centers in the city chosen by you. You have to register for the exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in person and to get the certificate.

Hard and soft copy of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%

Register for the exam today at: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

For other details about exam registration, please check our previous announcement.

-NPTEL Team

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Feedback for week 8

Dear student

We are glad that you have joined the NPTEL online certification course.

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for week 8 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

week 8

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Week 9 Assessment

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Week 9 contents live

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Exam Type and Certificate Format

Dear student

The certification exam will be conducted at designated centres in the city chosen by you. You have to register for the exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in person to get the certificate.

Register for the exam today at: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Exam registration form closes on 20th September 2017 5:00 PM (Wednesday).

For other details about exam registration, please check our previous announcement.

Type of exam: Computer based exam (Online)

Online:

You will have to appear at the allotted exam centre and produce your Hall ticket and Government Photo Identification Card(Example: Driving License,Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhaar-ID with your Name, date of birth, photograph and signature) for verification and take the exam in person. You can find the allotted exam center details in the hall ticket.

The questions will be on the computer and the answers will have to be entered on the computer; type of questions may include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, essay type answers, etc

The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively around 11-15th October 2017. We will notify the same through email.

FINAL CERTIFICATE:

The final score = 25% assignment score + 75% final certification exam score.

The final score will determine if you will/will not receive a certificate.

1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate
2. Final score between 40% -59%: Certificate of type "Successfully completing the course"
3. Final score between 60% -89%: Certificate with tag "Elite" printed at the top
4. Final score of 90% and above: Certificate with "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.

Please click the link here for certificate format: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/cert_preview/certificate_latest.pdf

-NPTEL Team

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Feedback for week 7

Dear student

We are glad that you have joined the NPTEL online certification course.

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for week 7 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

week 7

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Week 8 contents live

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Week 8 Assessment

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Assignment answer keys for weeks 1 and 2

Dear students,

First and second week's assignments along with answer keys are posted in the forum as requested by some of you.

Best,
Meenakshi.

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Assignments for weeks 3,4 and 5: Answer keys

Dear students,

As requested by many of you, I have posted the answer keys for assignments for weeks 3, 4 and 5 in the forum posts of this course. Apologies for the confusion about assignment 5.

Please do write to me in the forum if you have any doubts while preparing for the assignments or for the final exam, I will be happy to answer them.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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Feedback for week 6

Dear student

We are glad that you have joined the NPTEL online certification course.

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for week 6 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

week 6

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Week 7 videos are online

Dear students,

Four videos of week 7 are available online. The fifth video, on assignment solving for week 6, will be enabled only on Friday, September 9th, after the deadline.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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A Reminder on Certification Exam - Register Today

GET CERTIFIED

Registration is open from 29th AUGUST 2017 (Tuesday) until 20th September 2017 5:00 PM (Wednesday). Hurry up to get certified from IIT's and IISc

Register Now

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Suggestion on topics that we could discuss in the last week

Dear students,

For the last two weeks in the course (Week 11 and 12), please suggest any possible topics that you would like to know about in Software Testing that we haven't already discussed. I will see if I can cover some of these topics. You can refer to books on Software Testing and let me know if you would like to know about any topic that we haven't covered or any other topic in this area that interests you.

Hope to hear back from some of you.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

Dear Student:

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the October 2017 certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is only open to students who have enrolled in the course.

Registration is open from 29th AUGUST 2017 (Tuesday) until 20th September 2017 5:00 PM (Wednesday). 
The certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

(If you want to register for the exam for this course, login here using the same email id used to enroll to the course)

Dates of exam: 22nd October 2017(Sunday) [Forenoon-Shift 1/Afternoon Shift 2] (You can choose any one shift according to your convenience for writing the exam). You can register for a maximum of 2 course exams (same day of exam – 2 sessions. Same center will be allocated for both the sessions).

Exam Session time: Shift 1 - 9.00 AM -12.00 PM ; Shift 2 - 2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several cities across India whose list is available on the registration form. 
Tentative list of exam cities: http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnptel.ac.in%2FLocalChapter%2FAssets%2Fspoc_refdocs%2FOct_2017_Exam_Cities.pdf&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFksV6ScgWkPREriW7zk7jpDmjAbA

Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
(Students belonging to the SC/ST category can avail a 50% fee waiver - please select Yes for the SC/ST option and upload the correct Community certificate)
Mode of payment:  Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking.

HALL TICKET:
The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively between 11 -15th October 2017. We will confirm the same through an announcement once it is published.

Final score on certificate: 25% of assignment score + 75% of certification exam score.
Award of certificate:  Hard and soft copy of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%

The final score, assignment score and exam score will be printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in/noc), where on logging in, your scores and e-certificate will be available for verification  (Appropriate announcements will be made). Please do regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.

IMPORTANT NOTES

1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- Once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam shift, city is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment for both courses at the same time. It is not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, only basic details will be editable.


2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:- 

1. In the exam form, you will fill all the details and also upload photo, signature.
2. Ensure that you had selected your college name correctly from the drop-down list in the form.
3. Payment of exam fees - click on the tab - 'PAY VIA SPOC'.
The SPOC has to now confirm to NPTEL that he/she will pay fees on your behalf.
If the SPOC says NO, you will be intimated via email.
Then it becomes your responsibility to come back to the exam form and make the payment.
If you do not pay the exam fees within the prescribed time, you will not be able to write the exam.

After submitting the form, in case you wish to change the name, date of birth, address, photo and signature.  Please login to http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/edit_details.php and make the changes till September 20, 2017.

The following data initially submitted cannot be changed –email id, course selected, shift, exam city, SC/ST. For changes in this, email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in giving your Application number, email id and name. No changes will be entertained in these details after September 20 2017.

Thanks & Regards,

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Feedback for week 5

Dear student

We are glad that you have joined the NPTEL online certification course.

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for Week 5 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

Week 5

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Exam registration for the Software Testing course

Dear students,

Exam registration for the course on Software Testing is not yet open. It is expected to be open some time this week or next week. An announcement will be posted by the NPTEL administration team when the registrations for exam opens in this course. Please look for the announcement and wait for the same.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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Week 6 Contents Live

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Week 6 Assessment

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Issues with assignments

Dear students,

Some of you seem to be having issues with automated evaluation of assignments.

Kindly note the following regarding the same:

--- Answer keys are provided by the instructor for automatic evaluation and the system marks it wrong if there is no exact match.
--- Videos will be made available for helping with solving assignments after the deadline for assignments, typically for every alternate week.
--- For other weeks, we will post answer keys after the deadline for you to check if there is any discrepancy. Please note that here too, unless there is an exact match with your answer, the answer will be marked wrong.
--- Please feel free to write back to me asking me for specific questions in the assignments that you face issues with, I will answer them in the forum. For example, if you have any issue with one specific question and think that your answer is correct, please write about it instead of stating that I am getting so many marks when I answer so much etc. Specific questions will help me to answer your queries better and also help you to learn in detail.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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Week 4 assignment deadline

Dear students,

Kindly note that the deadline for submitting assignments for week 4 will be tomorrow, 24th of August. On 25th, we will provide a video about solving assignment for week 4. Please ensure that the assignment is submitted before the video, assignments submitted after the video will not be considered.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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Week 5 Assesment

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Week 5 contents live

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Feedback for week 4

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Third week assignments

Dear students,

I have extended the deadline for assignment for third week by two more days as several of you have requested for the same. Please do try to solve the problems and answer the questions.

Kindly remember that deadline for assignment for the current week will be Wednesday next week, please do submit your assignments by then and refrain from asking for extension repeatedly. For every alternate week, we will upload a video on helping you to solve the previous week's assignments, but, only after this deadline.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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Week 4 Assesment

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Week 4 Contents Live

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Feedback for week 1 ,week 2 and Week 3

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Week 3 Assessment

Dear All

Week 3 Assignment is available on the portal and the deadline to submit the assignment is 2017-08-16, 23:59 IST.

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Week 3 Contents Live

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Week 1 assignment

Dear Candidates,

Since many of you have requested for an extension of week 1 assignment, it will be re-opened today and deadline for solving and submitting it will be coming Wednesday, 9th of August 2017.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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Week 2 video Contents

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Week 2 Assessment

Dear all,

Week 2 Assignment is available now and the deadline to submit the assignment is 2017-08-09, 21:00 IST. Kindly submit it online.



-NPTEL

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First week assignment

Dear all,

Deadline for first week's assignments is Wednesday, 2nd August. Kindly submit it online.

Regards,
Meenakshi.

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Week 1 contents

Dear Candidates

Week 1 videos are now available on the Portal

-NPTEL Team

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Welcome to NPTEL Online Course: Software testing

Dear student

Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!

Thank you for signing up for our online course "Software Testing ". We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.

The course will begin on July  24, 2017. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.

 We will open registration for the exam soon after the course starts. A form has to be filled and the certification exam has a fee, which needs to be paid at the time of registration. Everyone who has signed-up for the course, including those who do not register for the exam, will continue to have access to the course contents.

 There are two sections on the portal apart from the course content and assignment sections:

•  The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.    
  
  
•  The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.

 Details regarding the course:

Name of the course:  Software Testing
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17-cs32/

Course duration : July 24, 2017-Oct 13, 2017 (12 weeks)

Dates of exams : 22 October 2017

Time of exam : Shift 1: 9am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2pm-5pm

o   Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.

Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.

Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly

Once again, thank you for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning

- NPTEL team.