[Year 12 SofDev] Testing techniques

[Mark KELLY]

In past assessment reports, the examiners have commented critically on the
lack of obvious desk checking in students' answers.
Desk checking is a vital step - how else can you prove a program's output is
accurate?
I always do desk checking of my own software, even if I'm not being assessed
on it  ;-)

On 20 May 2011 11:07, Matheson, Heath A <Matheson.Heath.A at edumail.vic.gov.au
> wrote:

>  Heya All,
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> Is desk checking as a testing technique a thing of the past? Certainly
> students need to be able to follow pseudocode with sample data for the exam
> but there doesn’t seem to be any suggestion of desk checking the test data
> that they come up with for this sac.
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> Just wondering what the consensus is.
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> Heath Matheson
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> Mt Beauty
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