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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

BS

Sep 7, 2021

Quite challenging yet very educating course. The practice assignments are very good hands-on example and provides insight into testing

WM

Jan 2, 2021

Expected knowledge of programming and use of Eclipse is more than I expect for this course. I cannot find where I can donwload the sources mentioned in the week 4 videos.

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By DUANGHATAI M

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Oct 13, 2023

This course is not for the beginner. You have to have a knowledge of JAVA for doing unit test.

By Abhijeet M

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Apr 29, 2022

Need few basic clarification of manual testing as well-including defination and differences.

By Sertsedengle S (

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Mar 7, 2022

The course is a bit old and the tasks are incompattible with the new java.

By Venkata R I

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Jul 24, 2025

i have really good understanding who the software testing has been done

By Alexandra R

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Dec 28, 2020

Too much unit testing. Otherwise it was great and helpful.

By Avani R

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Sep 28, 2024

I just found the coding parts a bit hard to implement

By MANOJ K B L

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Jul 29, 2021

good and learnt so much about software software

By Andrés N

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Sep 5, 2022

Estuvo muy largo pero se aprendio mucho.

By Navjot S

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Aug 5, 2021

A little difficult for manual testers

By Shital S M

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Sep 27, 2020

Software testing is very good course

By Amit R

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Nov 21, 2020

informative about software testing

By KIRAN T

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Oct 16, 2022

Course is simply really great :)

By Rifat z

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Sep 5, 2020

It's a very effective course.

By DI P R

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Jul 4, 2021

Very interesting Course

By Kowshik S

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Apr 23, 2021

This course was good.

By Amara G

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Sep 6, 2022

Very usefull course

By LIMBACHIYA H H B

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Feb 12, 2025

Very helpfull

By Dr. R K G

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Sep 2, 2021

excellent

By MOHAMMED A U

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Jul 1, 2021

very good

By fahmi h w

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Sep 24, 2023

hard

By M A K R

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Aug 30, 2023

good

By Shaik A T

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Oct 25, 2021

Good

By KHANDAKER T R 1

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Aug 19, 2021

nice

By Rohini M

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Jun 19, 2025

NA

By Ikjun J

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Sep 7, 2021