This course will provide participants with practical solutions to object-oriented testing issues and problems, and will expose participants to set of techniques for systematically approaching the testing of object-oriented software applications. The methods taught in this course can be adapted to any organization.



What You Will Learn

• How to view testing as a formal process
• Step-by-step guidelines for performing systematic object-oriented testing
• Testing roles & responsiblities
• Testing levels for object-oriented applications
• Techniques for designing effective tests
• Practical testing standards and documentation
• Testing deliverables and work products

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for designers, programmers and testers who are involved in developing or maintaining object-oriented software applications, and who have a desire to learn about how to improve the quality and effectiveness of the testing process.

Attendees should have a basic background and understanding of object-oriented concepts and terminology. Experience in object-oriented design or programming is helpful. Based upon specific client needs, training in the prerequisite object-oriented background topics can be provided as an additional part of the course material. Course Outline

Introduction to Object-Oriented Testing

• Quick review of object-oriented terminology
• Testing object-oriented vs. traditional applications
• Specific problems inherent in object-oriented testing
• How object-oriented development life cycles impact testing

Object-Oriented Testing Principles

• Testing definitions
• Object-oriented testing levels
• Some object-oriented testing issues
  • Class testing
  • Testing inheritance hierarchies
  • Component & cluster testing
• Role of development models in object-oriented testing
  • Class diagrams
  • Sequence diagrams
  • Collaboration diagrams
  • State models
  • Use cases
• Establishing responsibilities

The Object-Oriented Testing Process

• Importance of using a repeatable testing process
• Mapping the testing process to the project life cycle
• Traditional development life cycle
• Iterative/incremental life cycles
• Taking a life cycle approach to testing
• What to test at each life cycle phase
• How to test at each life cycle phase
• Deliverables & work products at each life cycle phase
• Step-by-step developer testing tasks
• Test traceability

Test Design Techniques -- Part 1

• Principles of systematic test design
• Kinds of testing needed for object-oriented applications
  • System-level testing requirements
  • Integration & collaboration testing
  • Class-level testing requirements
  • Testing inheritance structures
  • Testing overloaded & overridden methods
  • Testing polymorphic bindings
• Estimating how many tests are required
• Deriving tests from requirements
• Deriving tests from use cases
• Operational scenarios
• Traceability issues
• Completion criteria & guidelines

Test Design Techniques -- Part 2

• Black-box techniques for testing classes
  • Input space partitioning
  • Extreme point testing
  • Decision tables & trees
• Class-level coverage testing
  • Method coverage
  • State coverage
  • Structural coverage
  • Exception coverage
• Completion criteria & guidelines

Test Planning & Documentation

• Types of test documentation
• Sample documentation formats
• Step-by-step planning & documentation tasks

Seminar Length: 2 Days