Abstract
We gained insight into ideas and beliefs on testing of students who finished an introductory course on programming without any formal education on testing. We asked students to fill in a small survey, to do four exercises and to fill in a second survey. We interviewed eleven of these students in semi-structured interviews, to obtain more in-depth insight. The main outcome is that students do not test systematically, while most of them think they do test systematically. One of the misconceptions we found is that most students can only think of test cases based on programming code. Even if no code was provided (black-box testing), students try to come up with code to base their test cases on.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering |
| Subtitle of host publication | Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET) |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 189-198 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780738133201 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781665401388 |
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| Publication status | Published - May 2021 |
| Event | 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training - Online, Madrid, Spain Duration: 25 May 2021 → 28 May 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2021/icse-2021-Software-Engineering-and-Education-Track |
Conference
| Conference | 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering |
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| Abbreviated title | ICSE-SEET |
| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Madrid |
| Period | 25/05/21 → 28/05/21 |
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Keywords
- education
- software engineering
- software testing