Description
This course provides a technical overview of current object-oriented testing practices and methods. The course covers a broad range of testing issues, from low-level unit test techniques to user acceptance test strategies and techniques. Current tools and methodologies are also surveyed.

Audience
Testing specialists, programmers, and product development managers who need a technical introduction to object-oriented testing methods.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with testing techniques and practices and with object-oriented technologies and languages is required. Object-oriented programming experience is recommended.

Classroom Requirements
Overhead projector, flipcharts.

Format

• Presentation
  

Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Plan and use object-oriented testing techniques within the software development life cycle
• Select appropriate tools and techniques for testing object-oriented code and systems
• Apply design for testability in software designs
• Identify and select appropriate metrics to quantify the quality of code

Introduction

Introduction to Object-Oriented Testing

• Current state of object-oriented testing
• Issues unique to OO testing
• When and what should be tested
• Who should do the testing

Use Case-Based System Testing

• Requirements defined through use cases
• Incremental systems testing
• Planning test coverage with operational profiles and risk analysis
• Generating test cases from scenarios

Class Design for Testability

• Using software contracts in class specifications
• Assertions
• Preconditions
• Postconditions
• Invariants
• State transition constraints
• Managing polymorphism

Component (Unit) Testing

• Inputs to component testing
• Evaluating specifications and planning test coverage
• Testing strategy for components
• Test cases for methods
• State based testing
• Alternatives for test frameworks
• Incremental component testing
• Improving component level testing

Metrics

• Factors that affect quality
• Class design metrics
• Analyzing metrics

Testing Tools

• Test management tools
• Code and systems analysis tools
• Capture/playback tools