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.
Black-box and White-box Testing
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Black-box and White-box Testing
This course is part of Software Testing and Automation Specialization
Instructors: Mike
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3 weeks at 8 hours a week
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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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There are 4 modules in this course
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.
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8 videos1 reading7 assignments
In this module, we will learn a variety of testing techniques that can be used in both white-box and black-box testing strategies.
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14 videos7 assignments
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.
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10 videos7 assignments2 programming assignments
In this module, we go further in using the Cucumber toolset in order to implement a variety of testing strategies against two example projects.
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7 videos2 programming assignments
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