Abstract

Software testing is an important phase of the software development life cycle and is a very expensive process. In the software development community it plays a very critical role in quality assurance, reliability, and performance of the end product. However, most undergraduate students rarely have the opportunity to appreciate the significance of this phase. Students who graduate with a degree in computer science know nothing or very little about software testing. In an attempt to overcome this problem we have introduced software testing in the programming courses at our institution. From existing software testing techniques we have adopted a combination of equivalence class partitioning and boundary value analysis to provide a strategy for program testing. The strategy presents a criterion for selecting test data to test student programs. The details of our approach, effectiveness, and its drawback when applied to undergraduate student programs are summarized.

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