Online

Delivery mode

6 x 4-hr sessions

duration

Advanced

Skill Level

R14,5000

cost

Overview

The JCSE is offering a six session course on Software Testing

When ‘software testing’ is not properly distinguished from ‘debugging’, the resulting software is of low reliability and low trustworthiness.

Proper software testing, by contrast, is based on sound formal-logical theory, the introduction into which is the topic of this advanced-level course. During the 6 ‘sessions’ of this course, selected chapters from the book by Ammann & Offutt will be lectured and discussed, whereby the course’s participants will also be given opportunities to apply the studied method to their own ‘snippets’ of software code. The courses educational approach is the modern “flipped classroom” approach, whereby the course’s participants are expected to ‘watch’ the pre-recorded lecture-slides first (in their own time), and are thereafter given opportunities for direct “live”-interaction (online) with the instructor as well as also with the other participants.

Finally, the participants’ success (or failure) will be assessed in a 7th ‘session’ (examination); the level of achievement (percentage mark) will be written explicitly into every participant’s certificate of participation.

Prescribed Book: “Introduction to Software Testing” (1st Edition) by Paul Ammann & Jeff Offutt

Completing this course will help you:

Who is the course for?

This is an advanced-level course. It is aimed at those who are professional developers with 5 or more years of relevant experience. Although there are no formal educational pre-requisite courses required for this course, familiarity with coding and professional software development will be an advantage.

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I'm Barry Dwolatzky- your lecturer for this course

I’m head of Software Engineering at Wits and the founder and director of the JCSE. One of my greatest passions is teaching. I look forward to engaging with you on this interesting new course.

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