Module 3 – Integration and System-Level Testing

The Integration and system testing module is divided in two main parts: The first part focuses on Integration and System-Level Testing and Test Design, and the second part focuses on Important Issues and Aspects of Integration- and System-Level Testing.

The first part of the module will extend the test design techniques discussed in the Unit testing module, discussing things like specification­-based testing, implementation­-based testing, and other test design techniques when used at integration­ or system level. Lectures and assignments for this part of the module module are listed below:

Part I: Integration and System-Level Testing and Test Design

1. (Video) Integration Strategies.
   • Slides
2. (Video) Test Design on Integration and System Level.
   • Slides
3. (Assignment) Assignment INL6: Test Design on Integration- and System-Level. (sorry for the out-of-order listing of INL6 and INL5 – the latter can be found below.)
   • Recommended Reading is provided in the assignment instructions.
4. (Video) Perspectives on Integration Testing.
   • Slides
5. (Expert Interview) Dr Stig Larsson on Integration and Testing.

The second part of the module will focus on aspects and issues that are highly relevant for integration- and system-level testing (and in some cases, to the entire software testing process as a whole). Such issues include dealing with combinatorial issues, testability, etc… Lectures and assignments for the second part of this module are listed below:

Part II: Important Issues and Aspects of Integration- and System-Level Testing

1. (Video) Testability.
   • Slides
   • Recommended Reading
     • Jeffrey M. Voas and Keith W. Miller. 1995. Software Testability: The New Verification. IEEE Softw. 12, 3 (May 1995)
2. (Video) Combinatorial Testing.
   • Slides
   • Recommended Reading
     • Changhai Nie and Hareton Leung. 2011. A survey of combinatorial testing. ACM Comput. Surv. 43, 2, Article 11, February 2011.
     • Wojciak, P.; Tzoref-Brill, R., System Level Combinatorial Testing in Practice – The Concurrent Maintenance Case Study, Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2014 IEEE Seventh International Conference on , vol., no., pp.103,112, March 31 2014-April 4 2014
3. (Assignment) Assignment INL5: Combinatorial Testing.
4. (Video) Exploratory Testing – I.
   • Slides
5. (Video) Exploratory Testing – II.
   • Slides

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