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Fall 2019
Mar 28, 2024
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CS 40800 - Software Testing
Credit Hours: 3.00. Preliminaries: errors and testing; software quality, requirements, behavior, and correctness; testing, debugging, verification; control flow graphs, dominators; types of testing; Test selection: from requirements, finite state models, and combinatorial designs; regression testing and test minimization; Test adequacy assessment: control and data flow; mutation based; testing tools. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours

Syllabus Available
Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture

Offered By: College of Science
Department: Computer Science

Course Attributes:
Upper Division

May be offered at any of the following campuses:     
      West Lafayette

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the basic technology related to software testing and debugging. 2. Differentiate between reliability and correctness. 3. Understand the impact of the saturation effect on the test process and its cost. 4. Understand the relationship between software development and test processes. 5. Apply a variety of black box test generation methods manually and using tools. 6. Use test adequacy criteria and understand their respective cost and effectiveness. 7. Select appropriate software test tools for a given testing task


Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors:     
      Computer Science
      Computer Science Honors
      Data Science
      Data Science

Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level CS 25100 Minimum Grade of C

Short Title: Software Testing

Course Configurations:

Configuration 1: 3.0 Credits
Schedule Type Weekly Contact Hours Instructional Credit Distribution
Lecture 3 3.0

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