Software Testing
This is the home page for the School of Informatics course "ST: Software Testing", given by Stuart Anderson in January-March 2012.
Overview
Descriptor: The
course descriptor provides an overview of course content, learning outcomes and administration.
- Time Table 2011-2012:
- Course meetings are at 1210 on Tuesdays in Appleton Tower LT3 and Fridays in Old College LT 270.
- official timetable (page down to see the Semester 2 timetable)
- semester dates
- Resources:
The resources page comprises slidesets, videos, question sheets and some useful papers. This is still in construction but much material is already there. You may want to consult the web pages for the previous two years of the course since the material will be very similar.
- Coursework: There is a single coursework worth 25%
of the overall assessment for the course. You will work in groups of 4
or 5 people. The deadline for the practical is Thursday 8 March at
1600. You can find the specification of the practical here. Revised groups will be announced shortly.
STwiki: We will use the Software Testing Wiki for group communication.
Course Textbook:
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Mauro Pezzè and Michal Young
Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles and Techniques
Wiley, 2007.
book webpage
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Examinations: You will find past exam papers
useful. This year there will be one difference over past years, the
paper will be open book so you can take any additional sources of
information you require into the examination hall.
News
- 06/02/2012: Fixed some broken links on the practical page.
- 02/02/2012: Project groups by Group and by Name
- 02/02/2012: I hope I have fixed any broken links - please let me know if any persist.
- 02/02/2012: Practical text available, see this page.
- 31/01/2012: We covered the lecture material on specification-based testing 1.
- 27/01/2012: We considered where, when and why one might want to test and covered the lecture material on testing in the lifecycle.
- 24/01/2012: We covered the overview of unit test tools for Java
- 20/01/2012: We covered the second part of the course overview
- 17/01/2012: We covered the first part of the course overview.
- First meeting on Tuesday, 17th January 2011 in Appleton Tower Lecture Theatre 3
This page is maintained by
Stuart Anderson (
soa@staffmail.ed.ac.uk)
