Preparation for Software Testing Course

• The Impossibility of Complete Testing by Cem Kaner

  Bad software © 1997

  Article 2B October 30, 1998 of the UCC became UCITA which has only been adopted by two states (passed in 2000).

• Exhausting Your Test Options by Douglas Hoffman

  By exhaustive testing a bug was caught, which would not have been spotted by inspection of edge cases.

• The Patriot Missile Failure by Douglas N. Arnold

  Ironically, the fact that the bad time calculation had been improved in some parts of the code, but not all, contributed to the problem, since it meant that the inaccuracies did not cancel.

• A bug and a Crash by James Gleick

  Fortunately, he points out, really important software has a reliability of 99.9999999 percent. At least, until it doesn't.

• Other Papers from Testing Education

Case Study

Based upon The art of the elevator pitch describe your testing project.

Unifier

• Open Source utility aimed at developers and office users.
• A command line utility for the common problem of unifying spreadsheet sheets into one sheet.
• A pure java command line tool.
• A small utility with only 16 classes.
• Code coverage testing has already been completed through test driven development and retrofitting to 100&percent;, however there are is a need to extend testing for unexpected and illegal input.

Melati

• An Open Source ORM framework aimed at developers and office users.
• A DSL for writing database backed systems, with especial focus on web pages.
• A pure java stack on top of any JDBC capable database, typically used with a template engine.
• 4792 files, 180k lines of code, 8 developers over 12 years.
• Code coverage testing has already been completed through retrofitting. Still some benefits to be gained: caching, speed tests, technology changes.