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Introduction to software testing

• What is a test? Bugs and their cost. Testability. Testing and the life cycle. The concept of V&V.
• Functional testing vs. structural testing. Test coverage. Non-regression tests. The profession of a tester.
• References, maturity of processes (TMMI, TPI).

2

Management processes related to testing

• Managing requirements, specifications, and traceability.
• Managing anomalies and change requests.
• Managing configuration and changes.
• Peer review.

3

The approach to testing

• The five fundamentals.
• The project process and testing. The global approach.
• The testing plan and its adaptations. The testing strategy.
• The risk-based approach. Estimating.
• Platforms. Testing and databases.
• Preparing, executing, and evaluating tests.
• Delivery documentation. Follow-up.

4

Unit tests

• The unit test process. Test Driven Development (TDD). xUnits.
• Limit testing, robustness testing, and random testing. Dynamic analysis. Structural coverage.
• Static analysis. Reading code.

5

Integration testing

• The integration testing process.
• Continuous integration.
• Integration strategies (upward, etc.)
• Random testing. The role of the integrator.

6

Validation testing

• The validation testing process. The genesis of the version (feature freeze).
• People involved in validation.
• Intuitive anomaly searching, ad hoc testing. Exploratory testing. Partition testing. Graphs.
• Statistical, ergonomical, usability, and stress testing.

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Add-ons

• Project report, acceptance clauses, acceptance testing.
• Setting up corrective and adaptive maintenance.
• Outsourcing tests, TPAA. Tools.