  The teaching-learning process may require specific pedagogical approaches to
establish a relationship with industry practices. Recently, some studies
investigated the educators' perspectives and the undergraduate courses
curriculum to identify potential weaknesses and solutions for the software
testing teaching process. However, it is still unclear how the practitioners
evaluate the acquisition of knowledge about software testing in undergraduate
courses. This study carried out an expert survey with 68 newly graduated
practitioners to determine what the industry expects from them and what they
learned in academia. The yielded results indicated that those practitioners
learned at a similar rate as others with a long industry experience. Also, they
studied less than half of the 35 software testing topics collected in the
survey and took industry-backed extracurricular courses to complement their
learning. Additionally, our findings point out a set of implications for future
research, as the respondents' learning difficulties (e.g., lack of learning
sources) and the gap between academic education and industry expectations
(e.g., certifications).
