School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Software Testing
  • Unit Code

    CSI3105
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Luke Brendan KELLY

Description

This unit focuses on the study of approaches and techniques for testing software systems. This unit will introduce various test case design techniques and test adequacy coverage criteria. The unit will also cover test automation and regression testing in software maintenance. In addition, students will learn strategies/approaches for testing object-oriented software, graphical-user interfaces as well as mobile and web applications.

Prerequisite Rule

must have passed CSI2343

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the importance of systematic testing.
  2. Apply different test case design techniques, recognising the strength and weakness of each and being able to choose techniques appropriately.
  3. Examine a suite of test cases in terms of test adequacy coverage.
  4. Investigate various techniques for GUI-based software, web-based and other types of software architecture and their role in software systems.
  5. Implement a case study, demonstrating appropriate use of testing techniques and generate the test harnesses for the software system.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to software testing.
  2. Test case generation and techniques including functional, structural, combinatorial and model-based.
  3. Test adequacy coverage criteria.
  4. Object-oriented testing.
  5. Software maintenance and regression testing.
  6. Automated testing.
  7. GUI testing.
  8. Testing Web-based applications and smart mobile device applications.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning will be through lectures and follow-up practical sessions. Development of practical skills will be within workshops and team situations.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentSoftware testing techniques20%
ExerciseShort answer questions20%
Case StudySoftware testing and implementation40%
PresentationVideo reflection on what was learnt20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentSoftware testing techniques20%
ExerciseShort answer questions20%
Case StudySoftware testing implementation40%
PresentationVideo reflection on what was learnt20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Software Testing
  • Unit Code

    CSI3105
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Luke KELLY

Description

This unit focuses on the study of approaches and techniques for testing software systems. This unit will introduce various test case design techniques and test adequacy coverage criteria. The unit will also cover test automation and regression testing in software maintenance. In addition, students will learn strategies/approaches for testing object-oriented software, graphical-user interfaces as well as mobile and web applications.

Prerequisite Rule

Students not enrolled in Y64 must have passed CSI2343

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the importance of systematic testing.
  2. Apply different test case design techniques, recognising the strength and weakness of each and being able to choose techniques appropriately.
  3. Examine a suite of test cases in terms of test adequacy coverage.
  4. Investigate various techniques for GUI-based software, web-based and other types of software architecture and their role in software systems.
  5. Implement a case study, demonstrating appropriate use of testing techniques and generate the test harnesses for the software system.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to software testing.
  2. Test case generation and techniques including functional, structural, combinatorial and model-based.
  3. Test adequacy coverage criteria.
  4. Object-oriented testing.
  5. Software maintenance and regression testing.
  6. Automated testing.
  7. GUI testing.
  8. Testing Web-based applications and smart mobile device applications.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning will be through lectures and follow-up practical sessions. Development of practical skills will be within workshops and team situations.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentSoftware testing techniques20%
ExerciseShort answer questions20%
Case StudySoftware testing and implementation40%
PresentationVideo reflection on what was learnt20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentSoftware testing techniques20%
ExerciseShort answer questions20%
Case StudySoftware testing implementation40%
PresentationVideo reflection on what was learnt20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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