Too much unexplained that's tested on. The content overall is good stuff to know, but some assigments aren't explained well and some quiz questions aren't covered in the lectures. The discussion forums are filled with people asking for help on common issues. The most important assignment in my opinion, which is building a test plan, is a great assignment, but it has unclear direction and isn't discussed in the lectures hardly at all. The example test plan doesn't follow the same format so its of use, but not completely. I still recommnd the course since it offers structure for study, but go in knowing its got issues and that you'll be using outside sources to fill in the gaps to get through some assignments and quizzes.

I learned a great deal from this course and I would have rated it higher, but I found the instructions for the assignments to be quite ambiguous, as was the automated feedback from the grader. This caused me to spend a lot more time on the assignments than was necessary and I got quite frustrated with the waste of my time. The instructors and mentor's don't appear to spend a lot of time in the forums and getting help was more difficult than it should have been. This is my third specialty on Coursera and my 14th course, so I do have some experience with what it's like with other courses (eg: better)

This cause is good as a basic intro to software testing.

Nice refresher about a software testing.

The only drawback is that in the end you need to solve problem that latest jre/junit/gradler/mochito which is neeed for this course and which you can install locally is not backwards compatible with the versions used for on line grading of your code, so it is a pain to produce test java code with one version and then to manually modify it to work with the online grader. This will be the pain in the end so please get prepared for it.

The course itself is very interesting, but the assignment they gave are often times buggy and faulty. I advise people who took this course to go through the discussion forum frequently to look for answers instead of trying it out on your own if you hit any errors to not waste your time and effort.

the last lesson was very difficult if not impossible to understand from the instructions. It is an older course and could have been updated since 2017. most of the testing should have been rewritten to explain the differences between the validators.

The course is a good course and it is the foundation into testing as it were. However, i would i like to say that the programming assignments were not explicit enough, there isn't concise instructions as to how to go about solving the questions .

No he podido seguir el ritmo del curso porque esta totalmente en ingles y por mas que utilice el traductor es imposible avanzar con buen ritmo.

Estaría muy apropiado que hagan la aclaración con anticipación sobre el idioma en el que se da el curso.

Are there any plans to make the last course of the certification available? Or update it with another course to unblock the certification? If not, then I would call it a waste of time, otherwise it was a good introduction to software testing.

Course is nice, but some checks were build in the way you can't locally achieve correct result (test must 100% fail), but this is required to complete the task...( But material as a whole is useful.

Dieser Kurs ist nur für Leute mit Vorkenntnissen. Es fehlt definitiv ein Skript. Wie manche Übungsaufgaben zu bewältigen sind, muss man sich extern erarbeiten.

The material is good but the instructers are not intractive enough to build interest in the course

This course needs an update to stay up to with the most valuables ways to the testing field.

Course teacher could make friendly class.. even could give some graphical presentation ..

This course is not ideal for beginner tester.

Doesnt show basics of selenium and coding

No feedback from personnel

I don't understand the high rating of this course. Paraphrasing someone who did a review on the course "if you bash your head against the wall enough times, you will learn something". This course is well made in some aspects and atrocius on other. Regarding the theory and exams, I would give it a solid 4 stars. Subjetcs are well writen and knowledge is well conveyed. But the practical experience, uff.. The code exercises are atrocius, there is no time given to setup the environment on your computer - and I lost a lot of time researching how to fix eclipse, mockito errors.. Zero documentation on how to setup and no files provided for follow alongs/code-along.. And in week 4 there's an huge leap in demand for the students plus the exercises come with very confusing instructions.. I was stuck for the longest time trying to understand what I was doing wrong in my assigment. Oh and forget about assistance from the University, the forum is basicallly abandoned.. In my opinion a course like this should not be available on the coursera platform. I wasted more time in fixing environment's problems, trying to understand confusing instructions, etc than actually studying the different subjects...

2 stars for the good start of this course. Apparently, to complete this - specially on the last part where it focuses on programming using Java, you will really need a prior experience to it and the other tool. there are also no uploaded materials which will make it harder for you to follow along while watching the video. There are also a struggle when doing the assignments, you will not get a hint on how to do it once you failed. I kinda feel like it is unfair specially for new learners. I hope you enjoy and not regret taking this course.

A good course, but several technical issues with the assignments that are discussed in the comments of the course, but have not been addressed or fixed over time. Disappointed in the difficulty of turning in a correct assignment and errors in the assigned materials. The course needs work.

I am a QA Engineer that is responsible for setting up automation frameworks in C#, JAVA and some Python. This course was designed for someone who has done software development.

This course was very misleading.

Even though the instructors and the course is awesome there is no one who can answer our questions regarding the question we have on the projects.

What kind of course requires knowledge of Java and calls itself an Introduction...

Good introductory course Not very good tests.

I thank coursera for giving the economic help to be able to do this course. Sadly the course is not what seams to be. It states that it is an introuduction to testing AND automation. But it turns out that is almost everything about automatio and you also crearly need a background on JAVA to be able to understand it. Lesson 1 to 3 are great and are actually about testing in general but from lesson 4 onward is all abuot code and very complicated stuff for begginers. I am sad to say I have wasted my time on this since there is no way I have the level to complete it and they don't care to explain anything to you. The course literally starts at level 1 or 2 an then goes to level 20 without any explanation.

This course requires some prerequisites, which it does not mention, so it is misleading if you are not well versed in these: a Java IDE, such as Eclipse. This course seems to follow some Java courses and the use of Eclipse IDE. The first homework is poorly setup. It is a test in itself, requiring countless hours to invest in how to setup your Eclipse JUnit environment. In case this helps you prepare for it. This is just a 'warning'. I wished I could do the prerequisites prior to starting it. It could have saved me hours.