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Prescription:SI300 Systems Implementation |
| Aim of Module | To provide students with practical experience in conducting system and acceptance testing.
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| Credits | 7
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| Knowledge Assumed From | 70 student learning hours
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| Prescription Expiry Date | Nov 2002
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
The Student Will
| | | | | P | 1 | Design and conduct a system test | |
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P | 2 | Design and conduct a full acceptance test | |
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P | 3 | Design installation tests for a simple system to be run by a user or a user's representative. | |
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CONTENT
| | | | > | Use of a project planning tool for designing the system test plan. | |
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> | Consideration of a full list of factors/categories when constructing system test cases. | |
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> | Conducting function and performance tests on an integrated group of previously tested modules. | |
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| | | | > | Development of different approaches, eg benchmark, pilot, parallel, operation testing, for acceptance testing. | |
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> | Completion of user and operations documentation, a training plan and CBT module for the acceptance test. | |
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| | | | > | Checks required for installation tests.
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| | | | Note | | TEACHING/LEARNING METHODS | |
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| | - 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. | |
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> | Textbooks and recommended Journal articles. | |
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> | Pre-written and pre-tested modules in a suite. | |
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> | Suitable computer resources to support the testing environment, eg. skeleton batch files or JCL for running the tests. | |
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> | Suitable packages for writing documentation and training modules on CBT. |
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