Software Testing 06-18158: Additional course material

Course details

• Module description
• Syllabus

Problems and exercises

• Software Requirements Specification (SRS) for the Triangle Problem
  Exercise
  Outline solution
• Prioritisation and risk analysis. Traffic lights exercise.
• Simple triangle problem. Problem description and a test case table.
• Simple triangle problem. Executable program Naive.exe implementing a Simple Triangle specification. (right click and select option "Save Link As ...")
• Triangle problem 2. More complete specification.
• Equivalence classes exercises. Exercise sheet.
• Decision tables exercise. Exercise sheet.
• Assessed Exercise 1
  Zip folder Exercise1.zip contains the following files:
  • The assignment sheet
  • Executable code: BlackBox.exe
  • Example Test Case file: ExampleTestCasesNextDate.txt
  • Software Requirements Specification in editable format: SRS.doc
  Submission deadline: 12:00 20th February 2012.

• Path testing problem. Exercise sheet.
• Data flow testing problem. Exercise sheet.
• Assessed Exercise 2
  • The assignment sheet Exercise-2-2012.pdf
  • Submission deadline for written reports: 12:00 23 April 2012.
  • Timetable of presentations.pdf

• System testing. ATM example.

Important web resources

All the items should be of interest to the students on the Software Testing course.

• Web resources, including Standards

Recommended reading

• BCS Standard for Software Component Testing

Lecture slides

• 00. Roadmap
• 01. Introduction
• 02. Risk analysis
• 03. Test case design: a Triangle Problem
• 04. Test case design: inputs, outputs and dependencies
• 05. Boundary value analysis
• 06. Equivalence class testing
• 07. Dependency islands
• 08. Decision tables
• 09. Path Testing
• 10. Data flow Testing
• 11. Metrics and evaluation
• 12. Test tools
• 13. Integration testing
• 14. System testing
• 15. Test management
• 16. Overview and further topics