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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesTU Delft

    The Syllabus

    • Understand some basic principles of testing and whyit requires creativity.
    • Get familiar withsome testing vocabulary, which improves our communication.
    • Devise our first set of tests for a Java program and automatethese testsusing JUnit.
    • Understand the differences between unit, integration, and system testing, as well as the testing pyramid.

    • Learn how to read a requirement and derive the partitions, which are the actual concrete tests we will perform to make sure our system works (we call it "partitioning" and "equivalent partitioning").
    • Learn how to think about and test possible corner cases, as developersoften forget to deal with such cases (we call itboundary testing).
    • Get a few tips, based on experience, on common corner cases.

    • Learn how to analyze the structure of your source code and derive meaningful tests.
    • Be able to use the most popular structural testing adequacy criteria, such as line coverage, branch coverage, and path coverage as well as to understand their differences.
    • Derive a minimal set of tests when your branches (e.g., ifs) are too complex.
    • Use a standard industry code coverage tool and interpret its results.

    • Understand the differences between different test levels (e.g., unit, integration, and system tests)
    • Understand what makes a system more or less testable.
    • Propose refactoring opportunities for increasing testability.
    • Be able to apply mock objects in order to unit test a class.
    • Understand when not to apply mock objects and go for integration tests.

    • Judge the internal code quality of your test suite and advice possible improvements.
    • Understand and avoid flaky tests.
    • Refactor and clean smelly test code.

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