| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Fridays |
| Week 1 | 09/20/2004
Summer break -- no classes |
09/22/2004
Summer break -- classes start on Thursday |
09/24/2004
Introduction Testing and the software process Equivalence partitions, boundary values Reading: Kaner, preface, ch. 1 Notes: Introduction (in RTF format) BoundaryEquivClasses.rtf Homework: Individual homework #1 (due Oct 1, 10:40am hardcopy or digital drop box) |
| Week 2 | 09/27/2004
Equivalence partitions, boundary values (continued) Reading: Kaner, ch. 1 (cont'd.) LimitationsPurpose.rtf |
09/29/2004
Limits of testing Reading: Kaner, ch. 2 |
10/01/2004
Testing and the software process Reading: Kaner, ch. 3 Notes: TestingAndProcess1.rtf |
| Week 3 | 10/04/2004
Testing and the software process, continued Reading: Kaner, ch. 3 (cont'd.) |
10/06/2004
Quality, bug reporting and analysis Reading: Kaner, ch. 4-5 |
10/08/2004
Quality, bug reporting and analysis, continued Reading: Kaner, ch. 4-5 (cont'd.) |
| Week 4 | 10/11/2004
Bug tracking Reading: Kaner, ch. 6 |
10/13/2004
Rational Enterprise Reading: Rational documentation Introduction to Rational Suite Documentation for ClearQuest page (The introduction describes a lot of terminology used in the tutorial) |
10/15/2004
Test case design Reading: Kaner, ch. 7 |
| Week 5 | 10/18/2004
Test case design, continued Reading: Kaner, ch. 7 (cont'd.) |
10/20/2004
Common software errors Reading: Kaner, Appendix |
10/22/2004
Common software errors Reading: Kaner, Appendix |
| Week 6 | 10/25/2004
Rational Robot Reading: Rational documentation |
10/27/2004
Midterm review |
10/29/2004
Midterm |
| Week 7 | 11/01/2004
JUnit Reading: JUnit homepage |
11/03/2004
Localization Reading: Kaner, ch. 9 Note: Nov 4 is the last day to withdraw without Enrollment Services Approval |
11/05/2004
Project group meeting |
| Week 8 | 11/08/2004
Testing user manuals Reading: Kaner, ch. 10 |
11/10/2004
Test planning and documentation Reading: Kaner, ch. 12 |
11/12/2004
Test planning and documentation, continued Reading: Kaner, ch. 12 (cont'd.) |
| Week 9 | 11/15/2004
Project issues Reading: Kaner, ch. 13 |
11/17/2004
Testing devices Reading: Kaner, ch. 8 |
11/19/2004
Project group meeting |
| Week 10 | 11/22/2004
Benchmarks -- introduction |
11/24/2004
Benchmarks -- transaction processing Reading: |
11/26/2004
Happy Thanksgiving |
| Week 11 | 11/29/2004
Legal, ethical issues Reading: Kaner, ch. 14 |
12/01/2004
Management issues Reading: Kaner, ch. 15 |
12/03/2004
Review for final exam |
| Week 12 | 12/06/2004
Final exam, 11AM-12:50PM |
12/08/2004 | 12/10/2004 |