Lecturer: Bruno Rossi, FI MU
Date: 31. 3. 2015 at 12:00-13:40 in A318, FI MU

Content

• Introduction
  • reminder about software testing and some terminology
• Basic principles of testing
  • Sensitivity: better to fail every time than sometimes
  • Redundancy: making intentions explicit
  • Restrictions: making the problem easier
  • Partition: divide and conquer
  • Visibility: making information accessible
  • Feedback: applying lessons from experience in process and techniques
• From Requirements to Test Cases
  • characteristics of requirements & test cases
  • functional vs structural testing
  • steps: from specifications to test cases
• From Unit testing to Integration testing
  • what is integration testing
  • main differences vs unit testing
  • Integration faults
  • how to approach integration testing
    • incremental vs non-incremental approaches
    • top-down vs bottom-up strategy
    • choosing a strategy
• Specific Issues in Testing Object Oriented Software
  • OO definitions of unit and integration testing
  • Specific issues
    • State dependent behavior
    • Encapsulation
    • Inheritance
    • Polymorphism and dynamic binding
    • Abstract and generic classes
    • Exception handling

Lecture Material

Slides of the lecture: download

Test:

• Assignment download
• Solution download

Links:

• http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~michal/book/ - additional slides from M. Pezzè and M. Young, Software Testing And Analysis: Process, Principles And Techniques. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2007. (in particular chapters 10,11,14,15,21 could be interesting for parts that were not covered during lecture);
• http://www.whyprogramsfail.com/slides.php - slides about fault-based testing
• http://fitnesse.org - Fitnesse, framework for acceptance testing