Software Testing and Automation Specialization

After completing Software Testing and Automation Specialization, you will be able to…

• Understood 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.
• Understood 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.
• You will gain an understanding of the theory of testing.
• You will practice writing tests for a variety of quality intent, including code coverage, defect finding, and statistical testing.
• You will develop test plans to guide the testing stage of the software development lifecycle.
• You will create defect reports to provide transparency and understanding to supervisors, colleagues, and users.
• Models of testing and types of systematic testing strategies
• Social aspects of testing
• Learn about test plans, testing status reports, and defect reporting
• Software Defect Reports Analysis & Reporting
• Learn about writing unit tests
• Test Doubles Input & Output
• You will evaluate testability of requirements
• You will define testable units within a program specification
• You will select and apply black-box test input selection methods, including boundary-value analysis, fuzzing, and random selection
• You will develop automated tests and test oracles for automated software verification
• Evaluate testability of requirements
• Testable units within a program specification
• Apply black-box test input selection methods – specifically boundary-value analysis, fuzzing, and random selection – and select the method most-suited to achieve the given testing objective
• Assess the fault-finding effectiveness of a functional test suite using mutation testing
• Use category partitioning to develop automated functional tests (with Cucumber) based on a given software specification
• Create an expected-value oracle from a program description to use within the generated tests
• Learn about the basics of testing adequacy
• Black and White-box Techniques
• Installing Cucumber and Configuring Eclipse Project
• Understand the foundations of automated verification: randomization and symbolic representations
• Distinguish the strengths and weaknesses of random testing, symbolic analysis, static analysis, and model checking
• Use a variety of state-of-the-art static analysis and automated testing tools for automated verification
• Create executable requirements as an oracle suitable for automated testing and symbolic analysis
• Understand how the choice of oracle affects fault-finding for automated analysis strategies.
• Use automated testing to achieve full mutation coverage
• Create a test plan that utilizes both manually-written tests and automated tests towards maximizing rigor, minimizing effort and time, and minimizing test costs.
• How to specify properties of interest to check about a program
• How to capture assumptions about the environment for effective testing
• Automated Test Generation using Random Testing
• Automated Test Generation using Symbolic Execution
• Automated Test Generation using Metaheuristic Search
• What is Static Analysis
• Automating Security Testing Using Fuzz Testing

Software Testing and Automation Specialization includes 4 Courses they are

1. Introduction to Software Testing
2. Black-box and White-box Testing
3. Introduction to Automated Analysis
4. Web and Mobile Testing with Selenium

Course Instructor Sanjai Rayadurgam, Kevin Wendt, Mike & Offered by University of Minnesota from Coursera

Course Duration: Approximately 4 months to complete (Suggested pace of 6 hours/week)

Course is for Intermediate Level

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