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Black-box and White-box Testing

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Black-box and White-box Testing

Name: Black-box and White-box Testing
Rating: 3.7844827586206895 (116 reviews)

This course is part of Software Testing and Automation Specialization

Instructors: Mike

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

116 reviews

Intermediate level

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3 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

116 reviews

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

3 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

You will evaluate testability of requirements
You will define testable units within a program specification
You will select and apply black-box test input selection methods, including boundary-value analysis, fuzzing, and random selection
You will develop automated tests and test oracles for automated software verification.

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Taught in English

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After completing this course, learners will have an understanding of a variety of black-box and white-box testing techniques. The learner will have put this understanding into practice, creating effective sets of test cases (called a test suite) to properly exercise software for defect finding. The learner will have examined requirements for testability, created an oracle for automated testing, assessed fault-finding effectiveness of test suites, and generated inputs using a variety of techniques.

After completing this course, you will be able to: - evaluate testability of requirements - define testable units within a program specification - apply black-box test input selection methods - specifically boundary-value analysis, fuzzing, and random selection - and select the method most-suited to achieve the given testing objective - assess the fault-finding effectiveness of a functional test suite using mutation testing - use category partitioning to develop automated functional tests (with Cucumber) based on a given software specification - create an expected-value oracle from a program description to use within the generated tests In order to do well in this course, you should have experience with an OOP language (like Java), have an IDE installed (e.g., Eclipse), and be familiar with testing terminology (see Intro to Software Testing course within this specialization). we also expect a familiarity with the Software Development Lifecycle and the context in which the testing stage sits. This course is primarily aimed at those learners interested in any of the following roles: Software Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Test Automation Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Software Developer, Programmer, Computer Enthusiast.

Module details

In this module, we will learn about the basics of testing adequacy, as well as the factors that influence testing effectiveness and how we quantify these metrics.

What's included

8 videos1 reading7 assignments

8 videosTotal 66 minutes

Introduction to Test Selection and Test Adequacy6 minutes
What are Test Obligations?12 minutes
Factors Influencing Test Effectiveness10 minutes
Program Structure: Reachability and Observability8 minutes
Mutation Testing Revisited6 minutes
Program Structure and Fault Finding6 minutes
Test Oracles9 minutes
Oracles and Fault Finding8 minutes

1 readingTotal 5 minutes

Welcome to the course!5 minutes

7 assignmentsTotal 194 minutes

Introduction to Test Adequacy30 minutes
Factors Influencing Test Effectiveness30 minutes
Program Structure: Reachability and Observability30 minutes
Mutation Testing Revisited30 minutes
Program Structure and Fault Finding30 minutes
Test Oracles14 minutes
Oracles and Fault Finding30 minutes

In this module, we will learn a variety of testing techniques that can be used in both white-box and black-box testing strategies.

What's included

14 videos7 assignments

14 videosTotal 111 minutes

Partition Testing10 minutes
Combinatorial Testing13 minutes
Requirements Coverage7 minutes
Introduction to White-Box Testing Techniques12 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: Terminology6 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: Statement Coverage4 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: Branch Coverage4 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: Decision Coverage4 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: MC/DC10 minutes
MC/DC Example6 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: OMC/DC13 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: Boundary Value6 minutes
Mutation Testing Strategies6 minutes
Test Metrics and Test Suite Effectiveness10 minutes

7 assignmentsTotal 210 minutes

Partition Testing30 minutes
Combinatorial Testing30 minutes
Requirements Coverage30 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: Statement Coverage30 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: Branch Coverage30 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: Decision Coverage30 minutes
Code Coverage Metrics: MC/DC30 minutes

In this module, we focus on requirements-based testing. We review a set of requirements from a testing perspective and then move on to a more sophisticated way of writing requirements: structured requirements using the tool Cucumber.