Remember:
construction is fun,
maintenance is hard.
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Remember:
Things alter for the worse spontaneously,
if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Francis Bacon
 
SWE 437 Software Testing and Maintenance
Schedule
Spring 2009
 
Note: AO i means chapter i in Ammann and Offutt's book.
Readings for the first 4 weeks will be papers and handouts.
Note 2: This schedule is from Spring 2008. In Spring 2009 we will use the exact same schedule, except each week's lecture will be split across the two meetings. The schedule will be updated in January.

Meeting  Date  Topic Readings Hwks
I. Software Maintenance
1 1/28 Class Overview and
Maintenance Introduction 		Pfleeger, Chapter 11
Slides: Intro
Slides: Maint Overview 		 
22/4 Coding for Change and
Configuration Management 		Maintainable Java
javadoc
Java Style
Slides: Modifying Code
"Slides": CVS intro
Slides: Responsibilities 		 
32/11 Architecting and Designing for Change Hohpe and Woolf,
Introduction and Chapter 1
(through "Loose Coupling")
Slides: Enterprise Integration 		 
42/18 Agile Software Development Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning
Chapters 1-3
Slides: Agile Software 		 
II. Software Testing
52/25 Exam 1 (~4:30-5:30)
Coverage-based Testing 		AO 1.1-1.3 pdf  
63/3 Covering Graphs in Testing AO 2.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.3 pdf
(omit 2.2.2 - data flow) 		 
 3/10 Spring Break; No class    
73/17 Deriving Graphs from Software Artifacts JUnit pdf
SWE 619 Example: IStack StackTest
Example: Calc CalcTest
Example: Calculator CalculatorTest
Java Stack Example: StackTest
Java Math Example: MathTest
AO 2.3-2.5 pdf pdf pdf
(omit 2.3.2, 2.4.2, 2.5.2) 		 
83/24 Homework Review
Deriving and Covering Logical Expressions 		AO 3.1, 3.2(.1,.4,.5) pdf
(omit inactive clause coverage)
10 things I hate about testing
Software bugtraps 		 
93/31 More Logic Testing
Input Space Partitioning 		AO 3.3, 3.5 pdf pdf
AO 4 pdf 		 
10 X4/7 Exam 2    
11 4/14 Syntax Testing AO 5.1, 5.2.ii pdf pdf  
124/21 More Syntax Testing AO 5.3, 5.5 pdf pdf  
III. Regression Testing
134/28 Regression Testing
Change Impact Analysis 		AO 6.1, 6.2 pdf  
14 X5/5 Test Process
Tools
Review for final exam 		AO 6.4, 8.1 (skip 8.1.2) pdf
Elfriede Dustin guest lecturer ppt 		 
15 5/12 Final Exam 4:30 - 7:15  

This schedule is approximate.
Initial: 12 December

 
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