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About the Course

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....

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26 - 34 of 34 Reviews for Black-box and White-box Testing

By Luis B B R

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Jan 18, 2024

The grader has a lot of bugs, the content is okay tho. It is really frsutrating you have to do a lot of workarounds for your submissions to be graded

By Daniels P

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Apr 1, 2022

Last 2 assignments are difficult to understand at first, but they're possible. Still, it takes way too long to get through them.

By Art M

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Aug 13, 2024

The last two exercises were explained very poorly. They didn't provide the correct version of the program, making it difficult to understand how it works or what to expect in the test. There is no help available from the course creators, only from other students. I've seen questions in the forum that are 2 or 4 years old and still unanswered. The export function for the example program doesn't work. I spent a week trying to export it before giving up and creating a new empty one to copy everything over.

By Surya N D

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Feb 16, 2022

The course is fine but the assignments are extremely difficult to complete as no error is explanatory enough to say what exactly is missing in your code..No sample snippet is there to help.

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.It seems the people who hae put the course have left this course unattended as they never respond in the discussion forums.

By Tasko D

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Sep 2, 2021

Complete dissatisfcation with this course. Platform for checking submission of the assignments is not relaiable at all. For empty files, you may get a mark of 5/10: complete disappointment and 0 support for the problems. No one is checking the feedback from the learners. Learners should find something else if they want to progress. They can wait for weeks, and no one will unblock them or provide any feedback.

By Julio O L P

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Jul 12, 2022

This course is definitely the worst of the University of Michigan QA Automation course series, it uses a bit outdated technologies and in week 4 there are a lot of compilation errors in the last assignments.

By Manasa H V

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Feb 21, 2023

Programming Assignments details could have been better since it is an introduction to cucumber & gherkin. Learning videos or some sort of help videos with more detail would have been helpful

By MAIRA T M

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Aug 29, 2023

The worst course I have ever taken, don't waste your money.

By roman r

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Sep 28, 2024

Both lecturers are incredibly boring.