Key Concepts in Developer Testing

• Test self-assessment -- how good a tester are you?
• Test concepts: white box vs. black box, regression testing, positive and negative test cases, testing as "proof" of quality, test coverage
• Relating testing to other QA and development activities

Developer Testing Basics

• Kinds of tests: single-step testing, bench testing, unit testing, integration testing, as well as system test,  and acceptance test
• Stubs, drivers, and mock objects

Test-First Development

• Advantages of writing test cases before writing code
• Test-first development cycle described
• Use of unit test frameworks
• Most useful test strategies

Test Planning

• Scoping unit and integration testing to match your project's needs
• Design for testability
• Maximizing efficiency of unit testing and integration testing
• Validating your unit tests and integration tests

Testing Databases

• Database interface testing
• Internal database testing
• Obtaining test data
• Tools for database testing

Black-Box (Functional) Testing

• Finding domain specifications
• Common domain defects
• Designing input domain unit tests
• Designing output domain unit tests
• Equivalence classes
• Boundary value analysis
• Pairwise testing

White-Box (Structural) Testing

• Control-flow testing
• Tools for structural coverage
• Statement coverage
• Path coverage
• Decision (branch) coverage
• Modified condition/decision coverage

Special Testing Issues

• Mock objects
• Inheritance issues
• Testing embedded software
• Writing tests based on specifications
• Integration testing strategies

Test Tools

• Unit test frameworks
• Memory leak detectors
• Performance analyzers
• Coverage monitors

Testing the Tests

• Peer Reviewing test cases
• Defect seeding
• Mutation testing