CS 763: Automated Software Testing

Objectives

At the completion of this course, students will:

Understand the fundamental concepts necessary to automate software testing
Have theoretical background in understanding of automated testing
Have a thorough understanding to automate design, generation, and execution of test cases
Have a knowledge of the existing methods of automated test generation
Have the competencies required to assess automated software testing methods
Understand the techniques necessary to automate white-box and black-box testing

Rational and forces behind automated software testing
The process of automated software testing
Testing Methodologies/Techniques for code-based and specification-based testing
Automating test design and model-based testing
Automating test generation: test cases and test data generation
Algorithms of automated test data generation
Automating test execution: capture replay, oracles, and scripting techniques
Automating test management: defect tracking and requirement traceability
Automated regression testing and test suite reduction
Impact of automation on quality of software products and productivity of testing engineers

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