CS-314, Spring 2016
Design Studio 3. Black Box Testing - Wednesday, Feb 24, 2016

Pre-class work and Pre-Quiz, In-class work, and Post-class work for DS3.

The design studio pre-class work includes both team and individual portions. The design studio pre-Quiz is an individual quiz.

Pre-Quiz DUE Tuesday 23 February 2016, 11:55 PM

CREDIT: Pre-Quiz: 10 points, Design Studio: 10 points

Design Studio User Story: As a student in CS 314, I want to be able to develop appropriate Black Box (BB) tests for my programs, so that I write the fewest number of tests that can uncover the most number of problems.

1. Students can analyze a portion of the Adventure Game program description to decide what should be black box tested.
2. Students can identify input domains for the things they decide should be black box tested.
3. Students can identify equivalence classes of these domains, and boundary conditions of the equivalence classes.
4. Students can develop test cases for the black box tests.
5. Students know testing terminology (e.g. test input, test case, test set, oracle) so that they can meet AC 4.

Pre-work and Pre-Quiz User Stories:

As a student in CS 314, I want to:

• understand what Black Box testing is so that I can decide when BB testing is useful.
• understand what I need to know about a possible BB test so that I can systematically go about creating one.
• practice creating a small set of BB tests so that when I get to class I can apply what I learned to developing BB tests for the Adventure Game.

In-class activity User Stories:

As a student in CS 314, I want to:

• identify and partition (creating a set of complete and non-overlapping partitions) input domains and identify good boundary conditions on those partitions for BB testing so that I can write good BB tests.
• develop a few BB tests for the Adventure game and get instructor feedback on them so that I can use these in A3.

Post-class work User Stories:

• As a student in CS 314, I want to personally assess my learning from the pre-work and in-class activity so that I can relate it to things I already know and use it in my career.

Design Studio Pre-Class work - Do This Before Class, Quiz due Tuesday night 11:55 pm

Description:

The pre-work contains background information on Black Box testing. These are explained in the design studio pre-work file (DS3-PRE.pdf).

Tasks:

1. Complete the pre-class readings:

• Study the slides on Black Box testing in the CS314SP2016-BBTest.pdf file.
• View the YouTube video: ‘what is black box testing’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi75S5TTfQ0

2. Complete the pre-class preparation:

• Read and work through developing some BB tests for the Java Stack class, as described in DS3-PRE.pdf.
• Think about how you will do the following and bring your ideas to class.
  • Develop BB tests for the Adventure game, using the game description and the code method signature listed in DS3-PRE.pdf

3. Take the Q3 Pre-BBTesting Quiz, available in Canvas.

Grading:

1. You will receive an individual quiz grade for the pre-quiz.

Design Studio In-Class Activity - Work in your Team

TEAM WORK

Description:

You will be practicing identifying suitable BB tests for the Adventure game. Follow the instructions for Task 1 in DS3-InClass.pdf.

What you need to do:

1. With your team, work through Task 1, and record you work on the Results Sheet to turn in at the end of class, and keep a copy so that you can use your results in your Assignment 3 work.

2. Turn in your Results Sheet at the end of class.

Grading:

The team portion of your DS3 grade (5 points) will be based on your result sheet.

Design Studio Post-Class work - Do This After Class

INDIVIDUAL WORK

Post-class retrospective writing DUE Thursday 25 February 2016, 11:55 PM

Description:

You need to write a self-learning assessment for the in-class activity. Follow the instructions for Task 2 in DS3-InClass.pdf.

What you need to do:

1. Write your assessment and submit it via Canvas. Make sure your name is included in your file or it will not be graded and you will receive a 0.

Grading:

The individual portion of your DS3 grade (5 points) will be based on how thoughtfully you have addressed the problem in Task 2, and also on how well you have constructed your writing (paragraphs and arguments).