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Valid for year : 2011
 
TDDD04 Software Testing, 6 ECTS credits.
/Programvarutestning/

For:   CS   D   IT   SEM  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 36
Rec. self-study hours: 124

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
To prepare students to:
  • understand, generalize and analyse different testing methods
  • design, implement, explain, apply, and describe (oral and written)different test strategy and tools
  • compare, criticize, evaluate, choose differnet testing methods


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Programming (Java, C, C++, for example TDDD33), Data Structures and Algorithms, development of complex software.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:
Lectures, lessons and laboratory work

Course contents:
Techniques and concepts for testing software. Topics cover software testing at unit, module and system levels, automatic and manual techniques for generating and validating test data, static and dynamic analysis.

Course literature:
Copeland, Lee. A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design, Artech House Publishers, 2003. ISBN 1-58053-791-X.

Examination:
Written examination
Laboratory work
4 ECTS
2 ECTS
 
The questions check how well the student has fulfilled the learnings goals of the course.



Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IDA.
Director of Studies: Patrick Lambrix
Examiner: Peter Bunus

Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Last updated: 12/13/2010