| Syllabus | Schedule |
This syllabus is from a graduate course at George Mason University. SWE 637 is an elective in the Masters of Software Engineering program that is taught every semester. It is taken by 30 to 40 masters students in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, and Information and Software Assurance; and PhD students in Information Technology and Computer Science. The class meets one day per week for 2.5 hours in the early evening. The links to the quizzes and the slides have been disabled.
| Meeting | Date | Topic | Reading | Hwks | Quizzes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8/28 | Introduction and Background
Testing matters! | AO 1.1-1.2 pdf | Hwk 1 sol'n | |
| 2 | 9/4 | Graph Coverage
Graph coverage web app | AO 2.1-2.2 pdf | Hwk 2 sol'n | Quiz 1 |
| 3 | 9/11 | Graph Coverage for Code
Agitar demo (Joel Patterson) | AO 2.3
pdf
www.agitar.com Agitar JUnit factory | Hwk 3 | Quiz 2 |
| 4 | 9/18 | Graph Coverage for Other Artifacts | AO 2.4-2.5 pdf pdf | Hwk 4 sol'n | Quiz 3 |
| 5 | 9/25 | Use Case Graph Coverage | AO 2.6-2.7 pdf pdf | Quiz 4 | |
| 6 | 10/2 | Logic Testing
Logic coverage web app | AO 3.1-3.2 pdf | Hwk 5 sol'n | Quiz 5 |
| 10/9 | Columbus day recess; No class | ||||
| 7 | 10/16 | More Logic Testing | AO 3.3-3.4 pdf pdf | Hwk 6 sol'n | Quiz 6 |
| 8 | 10/23 | Still More Logic Testing
Input Space Partitioning | AO 3.5
pdf
AO 4.1 pdf | Hwk 7
sol'n A sol'n B | Quiz 7 |
| 9 | 10/30 | Input Space Partitioning | AO 4.2-4.3 pdf | Hwk 8 sol'n | Quiz 8 |
| 10 | 11/6 | Syntax-based Testing | AO 5.1-5.2 pdf pdf | Hwk 9 sol'n | Quiz 9 |
| 11 | 11/13 | Syntax-based Testing | AO 5.3-5.5
pdf pdf pdf | Hwk 10 | Quiz 10 |
| 12 | 11/20 | Practical Considerations
Technologies | AO 6.1-6.4 pdf | none | Quiz 11 |
| 13 | 11/27 | Technologies | AO 7.1-7.2
pdf pdf Web test tools 10 worst web failures | Hwk 11 | Quiz 12 |
| 14 | 12/4 | Building Tools
Challenges Course Wrap Up | AO 8.1
pdf
AO 9.2-9.3 pdf pdf summary review | Quiz 13 | |
| 15 | 12/11 | FINAL EXAM (4:30-7:15) | |||
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