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This is the third of a series of four on-line educational modules
on software testing.
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Module 3: Structural Testing and Assessing Effectiveness
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This module builds on a student's growing level of programming
maturity by discussing more sophisticated testing techniques. This
module is targeted for use in the Virginia Tech Course CS 2604: Data
Structures and File Management (next in the core sequence following CS
2704), and may also be used by other courses, including CS 3204:
Operating Systems and CS 3704: Intermediate Software Design and
Engineering. Module 3 serves as an in-depth presentation of
structural testing techniques, including methods of assessing
thoroughness and effectiveness. Both control flow and data flow
coverage criteria will be discussed, including practical strategies
that are applicable by students, such as basis path coverage and loop
testing. A white-box testing checklist will be presented. After
completing this module, a student will be able to design a set of test
cases providing basis path coverage for simple procedures, understand
when black-box test suites fail to provide basis path coverage,
augment black-box test suites created using the techniques from Module
2 with additional white-box test cases, and judge the thoroughness of
a test suite based on the technique used to create it.
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