Shade of Hue

Build modern testing knowledge and skills.

Learn Lab

Develop strong testing foundations, expand into APIs and automation, and build the AI fluency required to apply AI to testing and test AI-enabled systems.

Structured, self-paced learning for people entering testing, advancing their practice, or adapting to the AI era.

Built with a testing brain — judgment, practice, and communication — not another AI course catalog.

Learn the method. Practice the skill. Apply it to the work.

Learn

Understand testing knowledge, methods, risks, and decision-making.

Play

Practice through guided activities, study aids, sample applications, and low-risk environments.

Apply

Bring selected methods and reviewed resources into real testing work.

Learn Lab provides the structured knowledge behind the activities in Play Lab and the workflows introduced through Apply Lab.

Choose your starting point.

Start where your experience and goals make sense. The roadmap is guidance. You do not have to complete every course in a fixed order.

New entrants and career switchers

Build testing foundations, understand how software teams work, and develop a structured starting point for practical testing.Suggested starting course: Pragmatic Software Test Engineer

Testing practitioners

Extend your existing experience through APIs, automation, AI-assisted testing, testing AI systems, and modern human-agent workflows.Suggested areas: Testing with AI and Testing AI Systems · API Testing · Test Automation Engineering · Focused and advanced courses

Courses in Learn Lab

Start with the area that matches your current needs. Labs Annual provides access to included learning across Learn Lab, with new and updated content added as testing practice changes.

Established courses

Pragmatic Software Test Engineer

Included in Labs Annual

Build durable testing foundations through practical analysis, test design, investigation, evidence, and communication.

Who it is for: People entering testing or building a structured foundation.

Main focus: Analysis, risk, test design, investigation, evidence, and communication.

Testing AI Systems and Testing with AI

Included in Labs Annual

Learn both sides of AI-native testing: using AI to support testing work and evaluating software whose behavior includes AI.

Part 1: Testing with AI · Part 2: Testing AI Systems

Who it is for: Practitioners working with or on AI-enabled products.

API Testing with Postman, Hoppscotch, and Insomnia

Included in Labs Annual

Learn how to investigate requests, responses, behavior, risk, and evidence across practical API-testing workflows.

Who it is for: Testers who need to investigate and test APIs.

Main focus: API investigation, test design, and tool-based workflows.

Test Automation Engineering Series

Included in Labs Annual

Develop automation capability through programming foundations, Selenium, Playwright, and responsible AI-assisted automation.

Who it is for: Testers building or extending automation skills.

Main focus: Java, Selenium, TypeScript, Playwright, and reviewed AI assistance.

What Learners Say

Real feedback from learners who completed Shade of Hue courses — from structured foundations to applying AI in testing work.

My experience with the course was very positive. It allowed me to learn in a structured and systematic way while gaining comprehensive knowledge. There were plenty of practical exercises, and I also received enthusiastic support from a dedicated SOH mentor who carefully reviewed my work and provided helpful feedback.

Binh HoangGraduate, Class of 2026
PNV

The six-week course on Manual Testing and AI Testing helped me strengthen my foundation while gaining a lot of new knowledge about software testing. As a result, I feel more confident and solid in my testing knowledge. The AI Testing portion was a very special experience. I had used AI quite a bit for studying before, but after the course, I realized I hadn't really been using it effectively. I was introduced to many new concepts, gained a better understanding of AI, and learned how to apply this technology more effectively to my future work as a tester. I want to thank Shade of Hue and the team of instructors and support staff for their dedicated guidance, which made it possible for us to complete the course smoothly.

Ha HoGraduate, Class of 2026
PNV

The AI Testing course helped me learn how to apply AI to real-world projects. I was guided on how to write quality prompts and provide the right context so AI could produce more accurate and useful results. I was also introduced to methods for testing AI systems, related tools, common AI errors, and the Black-Box Exploratory AI Testing method. In particular, after each module there were exercises that helped me review and reinforce my knowledge. My work was reviewed in detail by the SOH instructor, who gave specific feedback, helping me recognize my strengths, areas to improve, and clearly develop my skills.

Chang CoorTest Engineer
HWG

If you're trying to make sense of how AI fits into software testing, I strongly recommend starting with Hung Nguyen's Shade of Hue courses. I am a decades-long practitioner of software testing. It is hard to keep up with relevant AI updates while slogging through lots of amateur, poorly explained hype. On my current contract I used Hung's approach that I learned in his Testing AI Systems and Testing with AI class, and my client was most impressed with the tools and insights. In the past when I managed software testing teams, sending my team to these classes would have been a godsend. As a former adjunct Computer Science professor, I see in Hung Nguyen's Shade of Hue courses the underpinnings of organization and description from someone who knows how to break down complex subjects and refine them into practical concepts. He is a pro. All in all, I give the courses a strong recommendation.

Scott AllmanProfessional AI Software Test and QA Engineer
SOH Alumni
Testimonials

Focused courses

These focused courses are in development. Descriptions, outlines, availability, and access will be updated as each course is confirmed.

Mobile App Testing Basics

In development

Develop a practical foundation for investigating mobile applications across devices, user contexts, platform behavior, risk, and evidence.

Technical Communication: Communication and Progress Reporting

In development

Learn how to communicate testing progress, evidence, risks, blockers, impact, and next actions with clarity.

LLM for Testers: How LLMs Actually Read and Respond Under the Hood

In development

Build a practical mental model of how language models process inputs and generate responses so that you can test and use them more critically.

Human-Agent Testing Mini-Series

Three connected courses exploring how testing knowledge, agent workflows, and human leadership combine in modern AI-assisted testing environments.

1. Skills Engineering

In development

Explore how testing knowledge, instructions, tools, and repeatable procedures can be structured into reusable skills for human-agent work.

2. Architecting Agentic Testing

In development

Examine how testing agents, tools, responsibilities, controls, and human review can be organized into an effective testing workflow.

3. Leading a Human-Agent Testing Team

In development

Develop the judgment and leadership practices needed to coordinate people and agents while retaining responsibility for evidence and decisions.

Practice beyond the lesson

Continue in Play Lab with learning companions, guided demos, notebooks, and testing tools designed to help you explore and practise safely.

Explore Play Lab

Built for continuous development in modern testing.

Strong testing foundations

Build durable knowledge before relying on tools or generated output.

Practical AI fluency

Learn how AI can support testing work and how AI-enabled products must be evaluated.

Practitioner-informed learning

Study methods grounded in real testing roles, risks, evidence, decisions, and communication.

Continuously evolving

Keep learning as testing methods, AI capabilities, and software-development practices change.

Learn at your own pace.

Learn Lab is designed around structured, self-paced learning. Course-linked aids and practice activities help you review, explore, and apply what you learn.

Cohort learning and instructor-led support may be introduced for selected programs later.

One subscription for Learn, Play, and Apply.

Shade of Hue Labs Annual connects structured learning, deliberate practice, and selected application resources in one platform. Courses and supporting resources continue to evolve as AI and testing practice change.

Subscribe once instead of purchasing courses or SOH apps one by one.

Learn · Play · Apply

Three Connected Labs

One subscription covers all three.

Self-paced

Learn at Your Own Pace

Structured courses with no fixed schedule.

Evolving

Continuously Updated

Content grows as testing practice and AI change.