课程介绍

This course provides students with the essential ideas, processes, tools, and skills they need in order to set themselves on a path for true testing professionalism. This hands-on course covers the major test design techniques with lectures and exercises.  The course provides the risk-based methodology behind a successful testing program and covers a wide range of issues. The testing process is presented, both through theory and hands-on exercises that follow an example project, including the difficult tasks of tracking and presenting test results. The creation of a test environment and test automation is also covered, along with system development lifecycles and how they affect testing.

At the conclusion of the course, students should be capable and are encouraged to take an exam under one of the ISTQB-recognized National Boards. These tests are designed to separate the professionals and the experienced from the amateurs and the dilettantes.

课程大纲

学习目标

Be a competent tester!

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Through presentation, discussion, and hands-on exercises, attendees will learn to:
•    Explain the effects and harm bugs can cause
•    Articulate the necessity of testing
•    Describe the role of testing in quality assurance
•    Identify the common objectives, principles, and purposes of testing
•    Introduce structured, pre-planned testing processes
•    Adapt to and manage the psychological factors for testing success
•    Relate development and test activities
•    Adapt software development models to the context of the project and product
•    Select and implement appropriate levels or phases of testing, with the proper participants, objectives, targets, and items under test for each test level or phase
•    Select and plan for major test types or targets, including functional and non-functional tests, structural tests, confirmation tests, and regression tests
•    Explain the reasons for maintenance testing and how maintenance testing differs from new application testing
•    Understand the value, importance, and use of static techniques and static analysis, and the difference between static and dynamic techniques
•    Explain the phases, roles, and responsibilities of a typical formal review, and contrast different types of reviews
•    Understand the factors for successful reviews
•    Understand and perform a quality risk analysis to serve as the basis for testing, using the factors of likelihood and impact to determine the level of risk
•    Write test designs, cases, and procedures, relate them to each other, and trace these items to the test basis
•    Develop a test execution schedule
•    Explain the characteristics, differences, and reasons for specification-based (black box), structure-based (white box), and experience-based tests
•    Write test cases using equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, and state transition diagrams, understanding the main purpose of each technique and what sufficiency of coverage is for each technique
•    Write and measure test cases using structural testing concepts like coverage, statement and decision coverage, and other control-flow test design techniques
•    Understand the factors that influence the selection of appropriate test design techniques
•    Explain the importance of independent testing
•    Understand the benefits and drawbacks of independent testing
•    Select different team members for inclusion in a test team
•    Know the tasks of typical test leader and tester
•    Understand and write various types of test plans depending on the project, levels, and targets
•    Estimating testing via metrics and expertise, and recognize the factors that affect an estimate
•    Understand, use and interpret common metrics to monitor test preparation and execution
•    Explain how configuration management supports testing
•    Know typical hazards and potential risks for testing
•    Differentiate between project and quality (product) risks
•    Write a good bug or incident report, with the proper content
•    Know the different types of test tools, including programmers’ test tools
•    Explain different scripting techniques for test execution tools, including data-driven and keyword-driven
•    Know the potential benefits and risks of test automation
•    Plan to introduce a test tool into an organization
•    State the goals of a proof-of-concept for test tool evaluation
•    Explain the factors required for good tool support

学习要求

20% - Assignment A1: to explore, study and present one tool for static code analysis.
20% - Assignment A2: to design and plan a usability evaluation on a selected scenario.
50% - Assignment A3: to design and execute unit tests (component tests) on three major modules for an implemented project.
10% - Attendance + Q&A in Class

考核标准

Assignment A3 example
Grading Criterion    Weight
Test design I    15%
Test design II    15%
Test design III    15%
Test execution    15%
Presentation quality    10%
Documentation quality    10%
Source code quality    10%
Question and answer    10%

教材教参

Required text

Software Testing Foundations: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam, 2nd Edition,  by Andreas Spillner, Tilo Linz, and Hans Schaefer, Rocky Nook, Jan 2007, ISBN-13: 978-7-115-17370-6  http://china-pub（www.china-pub.com）or  http://home.dangdang.com/

Recommended reading

Foundations of Software Testing: ISTQB Certification, by Dorothy Graham (Author), Erik van Veenendaal, Isabel Evans, and Rex Black, Int. Thomson Business Press, Dec 2006, ISBN-10: 1844803554