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