NDLI: LIGHTVIEWS-visual interactive Internet environment for learning OO software testing

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ramakrishnan, S.
Copyright Year	2000
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of CSSE, Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia (Ramakrishnan, S.)
Abstract	The Internet has been recognised not only as a tool for communication in the 21st century but also as an environment for enabling changes in the paradigm of teaching and learning. The paper describes our development effort, sponsored by the Committee of University Teaching Development (CUTSD98) Grant, in designing educational material on object oriented (OO) testing in an Internet environment. The aim of the work is to enhance the state of the art in learning OO testing by visualizing the testing process and interactive courseware in virtual communities. We have endeavoured to create an effective Internet based courseware known as LIGHTVIEWS which contains OO testing case studies described by visual images, animation, and interactive lessons, to assist active participation by learners to result in better understanding and knowledge retention. Our approach employs appropriate UML diagrams, makes the diagrams test ready by including details of constraints as part of state/event transitions, and provides interactive lessons for learning OO software testing. We have used four case studies to explore the various test selection techniques. We have included black-box testing at unit level in case study 1, and at the system level in case study 3. Case study 2 was used to illustrate event based testing by visually representing the dynamics of Java applets at work, and using interactivity to learn how to test Java applets, threads, and applet communication. Case study 4 explores the various aspects of distributed component testing. More details are available on the project Web page http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/sitar/se-educ-proj.
Starting Page	692
Ending Page	695
File Size	469843
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581132069
ISSN	02705257
DOI	10.1109/ICSE.2000.870469
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2000-06-09
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Internet Education Courseware Software testing Java Materials testing Visualization Animation Unified modeling language System testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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