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This is a course home page for 01219343 Software Testing. In this course, we shall study various aspects of software testing, including both technical and social ones.

Announcements

• Facebook group (closed)

Schedules

• Week1: Introduction. The role of testers. slides

• Week2: Unit testing. Introduction to Test-Driven Development.
  • Junit: homepage
    • Slides: UDel CISC275 slides
    • Wiki: Getting started
    • Cheat sheets: Cheat sheet by Codign, Quick Start Guide, JUnit 4 Cheat Sheet, UW CSE331 cheat sheet
    • Tutorials: JUnitQuickTutorial
  • TDD Clips: Dive Into TDD
  • Exercises:
    • Triangle
    • Discount
    • Poker

• Week3: Interviewing with customers
  • Examples
  • Interview scripts

• Week4: Isolation. Mocks / Stubs.
  • Slides: Good unit tests, Testing units with dependencies
  • Notes: Please install Mockito before class.
  • Links:
    • Mockito's document
    • Mocks aren't stubs by Martin Fowler
    • Mocks, Fakes, Stubs and Dummies -- terminologies of various test doubles.

• Extra1: Grails
  • Grails: Getting Started
  • คลิปอบรม Grails ของ SIPA/KU โดย ชาญวิทย์ แก้วกสิ (ภาษาไทย)

• Week5: Test levels, test types
  • Quick review: basic concepts, testing principles
  • Grails testing: Testing - reference document
  • Grails functional test plugin

• Week6: User acceptance testing.
  • User stories
  • Practice with grails project
    • Mercurial (hg): mercurial, quick reference, bitbucket
    • Link like fork this!

• Week7: Test design
  • Dimensions of testing techniques
  • Test design (1), Test design (2)
  • Practice:
    • KU Student status

• Week8: How to think like a tester
  • Reference material: Chapter 2 of the Lessons learned book

• Week9: Exploratory Testing
  • Cem Kaner, A tutorial in exploratory testing. QAI QUEST Conference, Chicago, April 2008.
  • James Bach's note on Rapid Testing is very good.

• Week10: Bug reporting. Code coverage.
  • Rex Black. The Fine Art of Writing a Good Bug Report
• Week11:
  • Risk-based testing. slides
  • Review of test techniques: Five-fold testing system
  • Test planning. slides
    • Test strategy slides by James Bach
    • Sample test plans: SQAtester.com, Toolbox for IT, bazman, Software testing help, qaquestions
  • Exercise

• Week12-13:
  • Performance testing, load testing
  • Usability testing

Links

• Course webpage for 2009
• ISTQB Syllabus