[Year 12 SofDev] What I want for testing in Criterion 7

[Paragreen, Chris J]

Hi Philip,

Is the “works” column redundant? If it works, actual result should say “as expected”. Otherwise the content of expected result would indicate that it doesn’t work.

I’d also be adverse to including the meets requirements column. Students tend to confuse testing and evaluation, so I’d avoid drawing a direct association between the two.

Otherwise, thanks for the list of things to test. That’s going to make life a lot easier!

Regards,

Chris

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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] What I want for testing in Criterion 7

Dear All

I have asked my students for a testing table with the following headings:
- Item tested
- Test data
- Expected result
- Actual result
- Works
- Meets requirements

I thought about a column for a description, but thought it might just lead to taking up more time. I am thinking of getting students to print out their testing table and to annotate it.


Things that need to be tested:
- Validation - existence, range and type - test for correct and incorrect data
- Writing to files
- Reading from files
- Searching files
- Sorting files
- Adding to files
- Deleting from files
- Editing files
- Menu items
- Buttons - Clear - Calculations - a variety of tests to show working
- Viewing reports/ data in listboxes
- Security - Logins/encryption/authentication

Tests should show what is working and what is not working.

I have included the Meets requirements column so students can have a quick reference to see how their solution is meeting requirements for when they write their report later.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Phil.

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