Final Exam

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Final Exam

• Tuesday, July 17, 0900 1200
• Location STE F0126
• Format closed book, problem solving, short
  answer questions
• Material
• Lecture material
• Lab material JUnit, dbUnit

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Scope of the exam

• Testing basics
• Defects, failure, risk, verdicts, points of
  control / observation, etc.
• Principles
• Sensitivity, redundancy, visibility, etc.
• Graph models of software
• Control flow graph
• Data flow graph
• Call graph
• Finite state machines
• Extended finite state machines

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Scope of the exam

• Test coverage from models
• Control-flow based
• Branch, multiple-condition, path, etc.
• Data-flow based
• All-definitions, all-uses, all du-associations
• Finite state machine based
• Transition tour, conformance
• Test coverage from specifications
• Equivalence class partitioning
• Decision tables
• Pair-wise coverage of combinations

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Scope of the exam

• Drivers / Stubs / Mock objects
• When are they used?
• How are they set up?
• What to they have to do?
• Requirements for using mock objects.
• Integration testing
• strategies
• Object-oriented testing
• Effects of properties such as encapsulation,
  dynamic binding, etc. on testing.
• Testing abstract and generic classes.
• Constructors

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Scope of the exam

• Web application testing
• Client testing strategies mock server, embedded
  server, actual server.
• Server code testing strategies
  out-of-container, in-container with Cactus
• Database code testing strategies independent of
  server, with server
• Purpose of the various tools Cactus, dbUnit,
  Jetty, etc.
• There will NOT be any test code on this topic
  any questions will be about principles.

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Scope of the exam

• System testing
• Purpose of various types of system testing
• Issues associated with each.
• Security SQL injection
• Operational profiles
• Mean time to failure and reliability
• Process maturity models
• Certifications from CMM, ISO 9000, what they
  mean, and the process involved.
• Metrics
• Types of metrics code, from customer
• Defect tracking

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Scope of the exam

• Lab material
• JUnit JUnit test cases may be used as examples
  on the midterm.
• Coverage
• Principles of statement and branch coverage as
  applied to code.
• Basic idea of how instrumentation tools work.
• dbUnit
• What is the purpose of the tool?
• How would it be used in a test case?

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Sections from text

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Framework
• Section 2.1 only Verification / validation
• Chapter 3 Basic principles
• All sections Sensitivity, redundancy, etc.
• Chapter 4 not covered
• Chapter 5 Finite models
• All sections Control flow graphs, call graphs
  FSMs

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Sections from text

• Chapter 6 Data Flow models
• Section 6.1 only Data flow graphs
• Chapters 7, 8 not covered
• Chapters 9, 10 Test adequacy, Functional
  testing
• These chapters have general information about
  test coverage and test construction.
• Chapters 11
• Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 only
  Equivalence-class partitioning, Pair-wise
  combinatorial testing

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Sections from text

• Chapter 12 Structural testing
• All sections
• Topics covered statement, branch, (multiple)
  condition, path coverage
• Topics not covered boundary, LCSAJ, cyclomatic
  coverage
• Chapter 13 Data flow testing
• Sections 13.1, 13.2, 13.3 only definition-use
  associations, du-coverage
• Chapter 14 Model based testing
• Sections 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4 only
• FSM-based testing, decision tables

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Sections from text

• Chapter 15 Testing object-oriented software
• Sections 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.9, 15.10, 15.11,
  15.12
• Encapsulation, dynamic binding, inheritance,
  abstract classes, generic classes
• Chapter 16 not covered
• Chapter 17 Test execution
• All sections
• Chapters 18, 19 not covered
• Chapter 20 Test planning and process
• Sections 20.2, 20.3, 20.4
• Operational profiles, Process models

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Sections from text

• Chapter 21 Integration testing
• All sections
• Chapter 22 System and Regression testing
• All sections
• In section 22.6, only the first 1.5 pages we
  didnt cover the control flow graph method shown
  in the section.
• Chapter 23 Test automation
• Sections 21.1 through 21.5, plus 23.8 through
  23.10
• Chapter 24 Test documentation
• All sections (as background for the IEEE 829
  standard)

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Other sources used for lecture notes

• JUnit in Action
• Chapter 6 Stubs Jetty
• Chapter 7 Mock objects
• Chapter 8 Testing in a server container, Cactus
• Chapter 9 Testing a servlet
• Chapter 11 Unit testing database applications

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Office hours

• Thurs. July 12, 1400 1600
• Monday July 16, 1300 1700
• Tuesday July 17, 1500 1700
• Wednesday July 18 0900 1100