Test Driven Development

• Test driven development introduction
• Testing frameworks using JUnit, PyUnit, etc.
• Building test classes
• Driving design of a single class
• Test first design of object clusters
• Dummy and Mock Objects for Independence, etc.
• Putting all code under test

User Acceptance Testing

• Overview of acceptance testing
• Acceptance testing with FitNesse

Expanding Your View of Testing

• Finding Obvious and Hidden Boundaries
• Validating Specifications and Requirements
• Wearing the Users' Shoes
• Mining the Bug Database
• Uncovering Risks
• Modeling the System using TLS
• Data Driven Test
• Varying Existing Tests

Reducing the Test Set with:

• Equivalence
• Combination Testing
• Pair-wise Analysis
• Analyzing Risks & Risk Based Testing
• Prioritizing Tests
• When to Stop Testing

Managing the Test Project

• The Taxonomy of Bugs
• Test Strategies
• Estimating
• Negotiating
• Test Metrics and Complexity

Documenting Tests

• Test Documentation Requirements
• Test Plans, Matrices, and Test Cases

Test Automation

• A Case Study
• Automation with QTP, eValid,..
• When to Automate
• Test Automatation Failures: Lessons to be Learned
• Test automation will be ilustrated using eValid web testing tool .
• Integrating Black and White Box testing

• Knowledge of object-oriented programming.
• Development experience in object-oriented language.
• Java will be used to illustrate the examples in this course).

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