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About the Course

After completing this course, you will have an understanding of the fundamental principles and processes of software testing. You will have actively created test cases and run them using an automated testing tool. You will being writing and recognizing good test cases, including input data and expected outcomes. After completing this course, you will be able to… - Describe the difference between verification and validation. - Explain the goal of testing. - Use appropriate test terminology in communication; specifically: test fixture, logical test case, concrete test case, test script, test oracle, and fault. - Describe the motivations for white and black box testing. - Compare and contrast test-first and test-last development techniques. - Measure test adequacy using statement and branch coverage. - Reason about the causes and acceptability of and poor coverage - Assess the fault-finding effectiveness of a functional test suite using mutation testing. - Critique black-box and white-box testing, describing the benefits and use of each within the greater development effort. - Distinguish among the expected-value (true), heuristic, consistency (as used in A/B regression), and probability test oracles and select the one best-suited to the testing objective. - Craft unit and integration test cases to detect defects within code and automate these tests using JUnit. To achieve this, students will employ test doubles to support their tests, including stubs (for state verification) and mocks (for behavioral verification) (https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html). 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. We expect that you should have an understanding of the Java programming language (or any similar object-oriented language and the ability to pick up Java syntax quickly) and some knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle....

Top reviews

DW

Jun 13, 2022

I like this course very much! The coding assignment is easy but always incldues all the essential things we need to learn. I feel so happy that I jsut finished my first unit testing project.

AH

Aug 26, 2020

I love this course, the explanation is great, the assignments are very challenging. I learned many things from software testing. Thanks, Prof. Mike Whalen and Mr. Kevin Wendt

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By roman r

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Sep 28, 2024

Lecturer is too boring

By Kai N M

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Aug 4, 2022

I thank coursera for giving the economic help to be able to do this course. Sadly the course is not what seams to be. It states that it is an introuduction to testing AND automation. But it turns out that is almost everything about automatio and you also crearly need a background on JAVA to be able to understand it. Lesson 1 to 3 are great and are actually about testing in general but from lesson 4 onward is all abuot code and very complicated stuff for begginers. I am sad to say I have wasted my time on this since there is no way I have the level to complete it and they don't care to explain anything to you. The course literally starts at level 1 or 2 an then goes to level 20 without any explanation.

By Daniel C

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Dec 20, 2023

This course requires some prerequisites, which it does not mention, so it is misleading if you are not well versed in these: a Java IDE, such as Eclipse. This course seems to follow some Java courses and the use of Eclipse IDE. The first homework is poorly setup. It is a test in itself, requiring countless hours to invest in how to setup your Eclipse JUnit environment. In case this helps you prepare for it. This is just a 'warning'. I wished I could do the prerequisites prior to starting it. It could have saved me hours.

By Michał G

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Feb 13, 2022

This course is nothiing but money making scamm. Assignments have nothing to do with presented knowledge. If You know how to solve these submissions You have to be already professional or at mid advanced level. Cusomer help - foget it! Just simply unfair presentation of what you gonna learn.

By Adrian I R

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Jan 3, 2022

Automatic grading of test code does not work. There are a lot of posts in the forum, from other students having the same issues. No working solution yet. Somehow course management don't seems to care.

By Rakhi S

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Oct 3, 2021

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

This is a fraud.

By Chen Z

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Jul 2, 2023

Course materials (slides and codes) were not made available for learners to download, it makes it very very difficult to learn stuff.

By Simona M

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Aug 4, 2023

Low rating for not accepting Java 9.