Quality and testing - new teaching approaches for software engineers

System and software testing are important disciplines combining technical aspects with conceptual domains. While the reliability of systems and software is critical, many organisations involved in system and software development do not consider testing as an engineering discipline. Moreover, most testing team members do not have formal training and university curricula, generally, do not prepare graduates to have an understanding of testing design and analysis methods. So, even though proper testing has become more critical to software development, due to the software development paradigm shift (agile, DevOps and continuous applications) there is an understanding that greater proportion of quality assurance and testing is being done by the developers as part of the new development routine. Nevertheless, not much innovation in testing education or testing design is being reported. This article presents a novel approach focused on improving the learning of system and software testing, by introducing methodologies for conducting and assessing the process of education and training.