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Aim of Module | To provide students with practical experience in conducting system and acceptance testing. |
Credits | 7 |
Knowledge Assumed From | 70 student learning hours |
Prescription Expiry Date | Nov 2002 |
Topics | Highest Skill Level | Suggested Assessment Percentage | |
1 System Testing | P | 50 | |
2 Acceptance | P | 35 | |
3 Installation test design | P | 15 | |
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LEARNING OUTCOMES The Student Will | ||
P | 1 | Design and conduct a system test |
P | 2 | Design and conduct a full acceptance test |
P | 3 | Design installation tests for a simple system to be run by a user or a user's representative. |
1 System Testing |
> | Use of a project planning tool for designing the system test plan. | |
> | Consideration of a full list of factors/categories when constructing system test cases. | |
> | Conducting function and performance tests on an integrated group of previously tested modules. | |
2 Acceptance |
> | Development of different approaches, eg benchmark, pilot, parallel, operation testing, for acceptance testing. | |
> | Completion of user and operations documentation, a training plan and CBT module for the acceptance test. | |
3 Installation test design |
> | Checks required for installation tests. |
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TEACHING/LEARNING METHODS | ||
- Lectures | ||
- Problem-based learning related to the development of strategies for testing and implementing with different scenarios. | ||
- Practical experience at doing a system test and an acceptance test as an analyst and a client. | ||
- Practical experience at writing documentation for both users' and operations' departments. | ||
- Practical experience at writing a CBT for the user or for operations. | ||
LEARNING RESOURCES | ||
> | Textbooks and recommended Journal articles. | |
> | Pre-written and pre-tested modules in a suite. | |
> | Suitable computer resources to support the testing environment, eg. skeleton batch files or JCL for running the tests. | |
> | Suitable packages for writing documentation and training modules on CBT. |