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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 MANOJ K B L

Jul 29, 2021

good and learnt so much about software software

By Andres N

Sep 5, 2022

Estuvo muy largo pero se aprendio mucho.

By Navjot S

Aug 5, 2021

A little difficult for manual testers

By Shital S M

Sep 27, 2020

Software testing is very good course

By Amit R

Nov 21, 2020

informative about software testing

By KIRAN T

Oct 16, 2022

Course is simply really great :)

By Rifat z

Sep 5, 2020

It's a very effective course.

By DI P R

Jul 4, 2021

Very interesting Course

By Kowshik S

Apr 23, 2021

This course was good.

By Amara G

Sep 6, 2022

Very usefull course

By Dr. R K G

Sep 2, 2021

excellent

By MOHAMMED A U

Jul 1, 2021

very good

By fahmi h w

Sep 24, 2023

hard

By M A K R

Aug 30, 2023

good

By Shaik A T

Oct 25, 2021

Good

By KHANDAKER T R 1

Aug 19, 2021

nice

By Ikjun J

Sep 7, 2021

By Daniel V

Sep 19, 2022

Too much unexplained that's tested on. The content overall is good stuff to know, but some assigments aren't explained well and some quiz questions aren't covered in the lectures. The discussion forums are filled with people asking for help on common issues. The most important assignment in my opinion, which is building a test plan, is a great assignment, but it has unclear direction and isn't discussed in the lectures hardly at all. The example test plan doesn't follow the same format so its of use, but not completely. I still recommnd the course since it offers structure for study, but go in knowing its got issues and that you'll be using outside sources to fill in the gaps to get through some assignments and quizzes.

By Patricia H

May 3, 2021

I learned a great deal from this course and I would have rated it higher, but I found the instructions for the assignments to be quite ambiguous, as was the automated feedback from the grader. This caused me to spend a lot more time on the assignments than was necessary and I got quite frustrated with the waste of my time. The instructors and mentor's don't appear to spend a lot of time in the forums and getting help was more difficult than it should have been. This is my third specialty on Coursera and my 14th course, so I do have some experience with what it's like with other courses (eg: better)

By Milos M

Nov 26, 2022

This cause is good as a basic intro to software testing.

Nice refresher about a software testing.

The only drawback is that in the end you need to solve problem that latest jre/junit/gradler/mochito which is neeed for this course and which you can install locally is not backwards compatible with the versions used for on line grading of your code, so it is a pain to produce test java code with one version and then to manually modify it to work with the online grader. This will be the pain in the end so please get prepared for it.

By EG

Mar 18, 2022

The course itself is very interesting, but the assignment they gave are often times buggy and faulty. I advise people who took this course to go through the discussion forum frequently to look for answers instead of trying it out on your own if you hit any errors to not waste your time and effort.

By Jose C

Aug 28, 2022

the last lesson was very difficult if not impossible to understand from the instructions. It is an older course and could have been updated since 2017. most of the testing should have been rewritten to explain the differences between the validators.

By abraham i

Apr 8, 2022

The course is a good course and it is the foundation into testing as it were. However, i would i like to say that the programming assignments were not explicit enough, there isn't concise instructions as to how to go about solving the questions .

By DIEGO H

Jul 13, 2021

No he podido seguir el ritmo del curso porque esta totalmente en ingles y por mas que utilice el traductor es imposible avanzar con buen ritmo.

Estaría muy apropiado que hagan la aclaración con anticipación sobre el idioma en el que se da el curso.

By Emmanouil M

Nov 22, 2021

Are there any plans to make the last course of the certification available? Or update it with another course to unblock the certification? If not, then I would call it a waste of time, otherwise it was a good introduction to software testing.