Software Testing

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Software Testing Courses

This page includes content that is relevant to the following courses:

Software Testing
Advanced Software Testing Techniques
Requirements Based Testing
Writing Test Plans

Videos

Complete, perfect testing is impossible - Scott Barber

Presentations

On line course review for IE5 or better.
Quality Planning presentation.
Some examples of radar charts used to graphically map the risk associated with quality characteristics.

Downloads and Links

We have retired our Software Testing Workshop and are offering the course material as a free download
SEI paperTaxonomy-Based Risk Identification
Risk analysis spreadsheet (MS Excel)
BCS Glossary of software testing terms
Draft BCS Software Component Testing Standard
NIST Special Publication 500-235 Structured Testing: A Testing Methodology Using the Cyclomatic Complexity Metric
Auto Hot Key demonstration test scripts for MS Calculator and MS Windows Address Book
During the course we often mention that graphs of test statistics should be stuck up on the wall so that no one has to be the “bearer of bad news”. Ron Jefferies expands on this idea in his article Big Visible Charts.

Testing Tools

Many software testing tools can be found at http://www.opensourcetesting.org. The ones listed here are those that are mentioned during the course.

Automated Testing Specialists, Inc. maintain an extensive list of testing tools as well as a number of whitepapers and articles about automated testing.

Many of the tools are web-based tools that require an AMP (Apache-MySQL-PHP) installation. A convenient solution can be found at the XAMPP site.

Static Source Code Analysis

PMD see the similar projects page at the PMD site for a list of similar (mainly Java) products.

Code Coverage

McCabe Software (follow the link to the McCabe IQ pages)
Cobertura

Automated Testing

JUnit xUnit frameworks for other languages can be found at http://www.opensourcetesting.org
Fit and Fitnesse
Auto Hot Key

Many course participants ask about tools for platforms that we are not familiar with. Usually after the course we do some research and then let them know what we find. The results of our research is listed below.