Frequently asked questions
The answers, including the ones that don’t work in our favor.
Three of the first answers below cost us enrollments: no online payment, no pooled funding, no certification. Reading them before asking for a place spares you a disappointment, and spares us an enrollment that starts off on the wrong foot.
Enrollment, pricing, funding
- How do I enroll in a course?
- From the course page, you open an enrollment request. We reply within 48 business hours with the terms and the price. Your access is opened after approval, within five business days.
- Can I pay online?
- No. There is no online payment on this site today. Payment is made against an invoice, or through a training agreement when your employer is paying. We prefer not to take payment before checking that the course is right for you.
- Can I use my CPF, an OPCO or France Travail?
- No. CPF, OPCO and France Travail are French public training funding schemes. The Qualiopi certification process (the French quality certification for training providers) is under way, but the organization is not certified as of today, which rules out any pooled funding. Funding is therefore direct: company or personal budget. We would rather say so than let you hope for coverage.
- Can I see the content before committing?
- Yes, for the learning path open today: several of its chapters are free to access, marked as such on its page. They are real chapters of the program, not a sales introduction. Courses announced as “coming soon” have no published chapters yet. Their page already describes the objectives, the prerequisites and the delivery arrangements; the content itself can only be viewed once they open.
- Do you offer in-house sessions for companies?
- Yes. Indicate the number of participants in your enrollment request, or write to us directly: the course outline and schedule are then adapted to your context.
Teaching approach and format
- What is the difference between a course and a learning path?
- A course covers one topic: you come out able to do one specific thing. A learning path chains several courses toward a professional goal, with hands-on scenarios and a review of your code. You don’t watch a learning path, you do it.
- How long do I have to complete the course?
- Courses are taken remotely, independently, at your own pace. The duration shown on each course page is content time, not a scheduling constraint: independent work between chapters comes on top of it.
- Is my work reviewed?
- The hands-on scenarios include a review of your code. It is the part that makes you progress the most, and it assumes you actually produce work: a learning path followed as a spectator doesn’t bring much.
- What are the prerequisites?
- They are listed on each course page, and they are the only ones that matter. The “From functional QA to QA Automation Engineer” learning path has no development prerequisites: the Java module starts from scratch. What is expected is some first experience of functional testing. Other courses, such as API Testing with REST Assured, do require existing foundations — Java, HTTP and REST: their page lists them.
Certification and results
- Do I get a recognized certification?
- No. We do not issue certifications, and certificates of completion are not yet being issued. Nor do we prepare you for an ISTQB or equivalent exam: the goal is operational skill, not one more title on a résumé.
- Do you publish success or satisfaction rates?
- Not today: no cohort has completed yet, so these figures would be made up. They will be published on each course page as soon as the first session is over, with the reference period and the number of people concerned.
Technical aspects
- What do I need for the exercises?
- A computer on which you can install a development environment. The tools used are free, and the exact list is on each course page. The exercises run on your machine, not in the browser.
- Are there videos?
- Not yet: no chapter has a video online as of today. The setup is designed so that each chapter can be followed either through its written material or through its video, both covering the same thing. The written material remains the reference, and it exists for every published chapter: it can be reread, searched, copied into an editor and read with a screen reader. The videos, when they arrive, will be subtitled.
- Is my progress saved?
- Yes, as long as you are signed in: completed chapters and quiz results. You will find all of it in your personal area, and you can export or delete it at any time.
Account and personal data
- What happens to my data?
- Your personal area lets you export all of your data in a readable file, and delete your account. No data is sold or passed on to a third party for commercial purposes.
- I forgot my password.
- Use the reset link on the sign-in page. For security reasons, the same response is shown whether or not the address exists: this prevents anyone from guessing who has an account.
Don’t see your question?
Write to us at contact@stratest.fr. If the question comes up again, it will end up on this page.