University of Minnesota

Black-box and White-box Testing

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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Intermediate level

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26 hours to complete
3 weeks at 8 hours a week
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
3.7

(96 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

26 hours to complete
3 weeks at 8 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • You will evaluate testability of requirements

  • You will define testable units within a program specification

  • You will select and apply black-box test input selection methods, including boundary-value analysis, fuzzing, and random selection

  • You will develop automated tests and test oracles for automated software verification.

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21 quizzes

Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

In this module, we will learn about the basics of testing adequacy, as well as the factors that influence testing effectiveness and how we quantify these metrics.

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8 videos1 reading7 quizzes

In this module, we will learn a variety of testing techniques that can be used in both white-box and black-box testing strategies.

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14 videos7 quizzes

In this module, we focus on requirements-based testing. We review a set of requirements from a testing perspective and then move on to a more sophisticated way of writing requirements: structured requirements using the tool Cucumber.

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10 videos7 quizzes2 programming assignments

In this module, we go further in using the Cucumber toolset in order to implement a variety of testing strategies against two example projects.

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7 videos2 programming assignments

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Mike
University of Minnesota
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