Software Engineering II - Software testing

Teacher:

• Andrea Polini

Lessons schedule:

Office Hours :

• Tuesday 5pm - 6pm (better if you announce yourself via e-mail)

The course intends to provide to the students the basic knowledge and competences for testing complex software systems. The following topics will be covered:

• Software Testing generalities
• Software Testing phases
• Test derivation strategies
• Test adequacy assessment

The various conceptual aspects will be illustrated using examples and competences will be assessed with a course project that will require the usage of professional tools.

• General Information [AM - Ch.1]
  • Basic of software testing
  • Software quality dimensions
  • Testing and other verification activities
  • Type of testing
• Test Generation Strategies from Requirements [AM - Ch.3]
  • Equivalence partitioning
  • Boundary analysis
  • The Category Partition method
  • Cause-Effect graphs
  • Test generation from predicates
    • BOR,BRO, BRE adequate test sets
• Test Generation from Finite-State Models [AM - Ch.4]
  • Finite State Machines (FSM)
  • Conformance testing
  • The W-Method
  • The partial W-Method
• Test Generation from Combinatorial Design [AM - Ch.5]
• Test Adequacy Assessment Using Control Flow and Data Flow [AM - Ch.7]
  • Control-Flow criteria
  • Data-Flow criteria
• Unit and Integration Testing [AM - Ch.10-11]

Course Slides

• General information on the course - March 1st
• Introductory Material - March 8th, 9th
• Test Derivation Strategies
  • Domain Partitioning - March 9th, 15th
  • Predicate Analysis - March 16th, 22nd, 23rd
  • Finite State Models - March 30th, April 12th, 19th, 20th, 26th, 27th
  • Combinatorial Design - April 27th, May 3rd
• Adequacy Criteria - May 4th, 17th, 24th
• Unit and Integration Testing - May 30th, 31st

• Research Paper Assignment - April 27th

Textbooks

• [AM] Aditya P. Mathur, Foundations of Software Testing, 2nd Edition, Pearson 2014

Exam Dates A.Y. 2016/2017

Exam rules:

The exam consist of three papers:

• 1st. The student should perform a short survey presentation. One or two scientific papers will be assigned to each student. A short survey on the topic will be performed, and a presentation will be given by the student in one of the last lessons.
• 2nd. A Small Software Project should be realized by students (it is possible to work in groups of 2) that will have to choose an open source software system (or possibly one made by them), and provide a complete test plan with artifacts. A short report have to be delivered before the oral paper. Alternatively students can decide to perform a written paper on the date fixed for the exam as reported on the students carreer system (ESSE3).
• 3rd. Finally the exam foresees an oral paper that can be performed after having passed the previous two papers. The date will be communicated by the teacher.

For each paper the student gets a mark in the range 6 and 12. The final mark results from the sum of the marks the student gets on each paper.

Paper Assignment

At this page you can find the list of papers presented during April 27th lesson

Results

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