Testing 2011

Lab Information

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Welcome to the testing course.

Home page for the course book Introduction to Software Testing.
Lab instructions
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Last year's exam

Lecture Timetable

Please note that the lecture schedule is a bit fluid at the moment. I might not use all the lecture slots. If in doubt the date and times in timeedit are correct. Chapter 2

Lecture Date Topics and Link to Slides Reading list

1 31 Oct. 13-15 Introduction to testing Slides Chapter 1

2 2 Nov. 10-12 Introduction to test driven development Slides Note that instead of printing out the slides you can print out darts and toEnglish that contains all the code from the lectures in a more readable format.

3 9 Nov. 10-12 We are going to start at slide 37 in these slides (also in PDF) I will also talk about undecidability and the halting problem(please only use the wikipedia page as a starting point) and its relation to software testing. Chapter 1 and 2.

4 10 Nov. 10-12 We will start to look at path coverage. slides.

5 15 Nov. 13-15 More on code coverage Chapter 2

6 16 Nov. 10-12 Guest Lecture Hans Axelsson from Nucletron. Slides

7 17 Nov. 8-10 Lecture Canceled.

8 28 Nov. 13-15 Logic Coverage. Slides PDF. I am not going to cover these slides ( PDF) in a lecture, because the slides are better for self study. It is important that you go through the slides as they are useful and I might ask exam questions based on them. Chapter 3 , 3.1,3.2

9 1 Dec. 15-17 Input domain Modelling. Slides Chapter 4

10 2 Dec Lecture Canceled

11 7 Dec. 10-12 Practical Considerations. Slides Chapter 6.

Lecture	Date	Topics and Link to Slides	Reading list
1	31 Oct. 13-15	Introduction to testing Slides	Chapter 1
2	2 Nov. 10-12	Introduction to test driven development Slides Note that instead of printing out the slides you can print out darts and toEnglish that contains all the code from the lectures in a more readable format.
3	9 Nov. 10-12	We are going to start at slide 37 in these slides (also in PDF) I will also talk about undecidability and the halting problem(please only use the wikipedia page as a starting point) and its relation to software testing.	Chapter 1 and 2.
4	10 Nov. 10-12	We will start to look at path coverage. slides.
5	15 Nov. 13-15	More on code coverage	Chapter 2
6	16 Nov. 10-12	Guest Lecture Hans Axelsson from Nucletron. Slides
7	17 Nov. 8-10	Lecture Canceled.
8	28 Nov. 13-15	Logic Coverage. Slides PDF. I am not going to cover these slides ( PDF) in a lecture, because the slides are better for self study. It is important that you go through the slides as they are useful and I might ask exam questions based on them.	Chapter 3 , 3.1,3.2
9	1 Dec. 15-17	Input domain Modelling. Slides	Chapter 4
10	2 Dec	Lecture Canceled
11	7 Dec. 10-12	Practical Considerations. Slides	Chapter 6.

Interesting links:

Preparation Questions for the exam.

Chapter 1. All Questions. These are more general philosophical questions
Chatper 2. 2.2.1. Questions 4-7 2.2.3 all questions, Section 2.3 , Quesions 1,4,5,6,7.
Chapter 3, All questions in section 3.1,3.2,3.3
Chapter 4. Section 4.1, Questions 1-2, 4.2 Questions 2-6
Chapter 6. There are no questions. But chatper 6, is full of material that I could use for more philosophical type question.

Justin Pearson