The course is buggy and thanks to bugs impossible to complete, I have payed 150 dollars so far and I cant complete the spechialization now thanks to black-box and white-box testing week 4 assignment 1.

The staff are unresponsive and they dont answer questions on the discussion forum, the assignments are vague and look like they have been put together in a hurry.

Link to external resources for the course has been hijacked for months and it leaads to malicious websites.

For a course on testing they sure as hell havent tested their own course.

Do not get trap into this certificate "Software Testing and Automation Specialization" last topic is not available since march 2021, you will end up wasting your money.

This is a fraud.

There is not support of the teachers, the material is old because now we have Java 14 and some configurations doesn't work.

Very good & well constructed course material, especially the introduction to Gherkin language part. The only thing needs improvement is the automated assignment validation, it does not provide sufficient information for the learner to debug

Pros 1. Came to know about new test techniques 2. Good explanation and working of Code Coverage Metric: MC/DC 3. Good explanation for Code Coverage Metric: OMC/DC and why it is used Cons 1. No working example of Mutation testing was provided 2. Partition Testing was explained in the most complex way ever 3. Lecture notes/slides are not provided 4. The techniques provided are highly restrictive in nature and apply only to those programs or software code which are based on numbers. In modern day, not all code pertains to numbers and there is lot of code for User Interface. The course failed in every possible way to provide a way to test UI and apply a suitable technique for UI tests 5. No real life exaamles used for applying test techniques 6. How to generate test cases using Automated software? 7. Although mentioned in the slide, no reference links were provided for OMC/DC tagging semantics 8. The course mentioned couple of IEEE (Research) Papers, but none were provided in the resources for further study. Unfortunately, these papers are not freely available for one to refer 9. Softwares' used to help with OMC/DC 10. Can BDD be used for Designing User Stories for Backend systems?

Great course, covering important theoretical foundations. I really appreciate Dr Whalen's teaching, because he goes in depth into the topics. I also enjoyed his parts in the previous course of this specialization. Hope to see more of his materials.

Course is very interesting but, i think there are some problem in the system where it graded automatically. Same file i submitted repeatedly but got different comments. Anyway, the course was very exciting and mindstorming.

I'm an university student. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the lecturers, University and Coursera. This course is amazing.

muy recomendado buen conocimiento impartido.

Great experience with Coursera!

it is a proffissional course

great!

good

All good, no feed back from teachers

It was a good and fruitful course, a lot of technical material is presentend and the knowledge is present.... but the assignments at the end of the course proved a bit more difficult for the given material. Thanks to the instructors for their excellent work though!

But you have to take under serious consideration the AutoGrader strange behavior!

The grader needs to be better and more detailed at feedback, since when you are left with one these tasks to complete your course this is extremely frustrating! To be more precise, you end up constantly submitting your draft assignment files (with trial and error logic) to be prompted with error messages for your many errors, that are quite abstract and you are walking blind!

In this course you really learn what testing is, if you do not have experience it will cost you and I mean hat you should look for more theory and examples than those that come in this course, there is not much in the forums that you can verify more than the people who ask For the full course, some pogramming tasks are very simple (more thinking than writing) and others are really a monster if you want to get 10

In conclusion if you pass it you learn very, very well you could be at the basic intermediate level of Junit and cucumber tests

The theory and classes are very good, but the two final projects are very hard to get right, the grading could be better, either you pass perfectly or you dont', its' really finnicky, you make very small changes to your tests and hope that it passes each time, theres not much output feedback, so you really dont know which tests are failing and why, it makes it way harder than it should.

Little feedback in the programming assignments. It just says that you did not verify the version correctly but it says so even if you are missing one dot.

Lil Difficulty

The final task is very difficult because It has uninformative feedback. I never knew which one of my tests is wrong. And I had to find errors in my package by sending a lot of combinations of my tests to the grader.

The most unobvious error in the buggy version was four recipes instead of three. It is not an error at all, because in this task we don't have Golden versions or requirements and even installation of CofeeMakerUI was written as if four recipes were a norm (4 recipes in the list).

Also, I don't understand why I have so small coverage. Maybe the issue is in the errors from mutant versions. On my computer coverage was higher than 90% in all checked classes.

The assignments are difficult to complete as there are no clear guidance. There should be bit more clues and tips on what needs to be done to complete the assignment. This was the only course out of the 4 which had pretty bad assignments.

Week 4's test instructions is not clear and no easy way to tell if one is in the right direction or not. Maybe give more hints about what to test for or at least indicate which bugs are not caught in the results feedback or something!

Would be an excellent course if there were still live support and if some of the required course materials were not becoming outdated. Very few people complete the course. Most get stuck at week 3 or 4. I got stuck at week 4.

Automatic grader is too strict, with very little feedback on what you're doing wrong. Had to spend several hours guessing where the error in my program was, since on my PC it was working fine.