Course Catalog 2009-2010 Postgraduate Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Mika Katara

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1 : Friday 12 - 15, TC210 Monday 12 - 15, TB111

Requirements

Course project and an exam. The project includes multiple phases and is done in pairs.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

The student will know the basic principles of software testing and how to apply them in software engineering including all software life cycle phases. The student recognizes such testing related tasks that can be automated either fully or partially using tools.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	V model, testing in agile software processes.	Test-Driven Development, defect life cycle, oursourcing testing
2.	Why you should design, what you should design, how to describe test cases.	Standards, document templates
3.	Dynamic testing techniques.	Static testing techniques, special characteristics of testing object-oriented software, testing embedded systems, security testing	Other software quality related techniques
4.	The most important tools for unit and system testing.	Test automation systems, tools for GUI testing
5.	Code coverage and how to measure it.	Using metrics to guide testing, complexity metrics

Evaluation criteria for the course

The grading will be based both on the project and the exam, roughly fifty-fifty.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides	Software Testing	Mika Katara					English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

Additional information

The exam will be based on the lecture slides. There is a concurrent version of the course (OHJ-3060) that is lectured in Finnish and has a slide set in Finnish. There are only a couple of lectures in English.

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures Practical works	Contact teaching: 10 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 90 %

Last modified	03.09.2009
Modifier	Mika Katara