Challenges to integrate software testing into introductory programming courses

Scatalon, Lilian Passos; Barbosa, Ellen Francine; Garcia, Rogério Eduardo

doi:10.1109/fie.2017.8190557

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“…They are optimistic about the correctness of their own code and consider testing merely an additional burden. One reason may be that the test tasks are experienced as too simple to justify the extra work [18], while code inspection is still feasible. This leads to a paradox in testing education.…”

Section: A Findings 1) Test Cases Are Based On Code Inspectionmentioning

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How do Students Test Software Units?

Bijlsma

Doorn

Passier

et al. 2021

2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)

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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.

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Section: A Findings 1) Test Cases Are Based On Code Inspectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How do Students Test Software Units?

Bijlsma

Doorn

Passier

et al. 2021

2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)

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“…O método utilizado neste estudo foi o mapeamento sistemático [Kitchenham et al 2010, Petersen et al 2008. Embora existam estudos sobre o ensino de teste de software [Valle et al 2015, Garousi et al 2020] e ensino de programação integrado ao teste de software [Scatalon et al 2017, Scatalon et al 2019, não pudemos identificar trabalhos que contemplem TDD ou teste de software especificamente quantoà resolução de problemas. Desta forma, o mapeamento sistemático foi realizado, sendo organizado em duas iterações.…”

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Mapeamento sistemático sobre resolução de problemas em disciplina introdutória de programação com teste de software

Feitosa

Silva

Fabri

2021

Anais Do XXIX Workshop Sobre Educação Em Computação (WEI 2021)

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Teste de software é um forma de tratar as dificuldades enfrentadas no processo de aprendizagem de programação para alunos iniciantes nos cursos de Computação. O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar estudos neste tema com relação à resolução de problemas em disciplinas introdutórias de programação. Para isto, foi realizado um mapeamento sistemático com base na resolução de problemas em disciplinas introdutórias de programação com a aplicação de técnicas de teste de software e TDD (Test-Driven Development) como forma de estruturar melhor o raciocino lógico do aluno. Diversas abordagens foram identificadas, com resultados positivos quanto à resolução de problemas em disciplinas introdutórias de programação com auxílio de teste de software.

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“…Another SLR [17] synthesized the challenges of integrating software testing into introductory programming courses, as reported by 158 papers, which included: (1) Determining how programming and testing should be connected and delivered together; (2) Dealing with students who do not appreciate the value of software testing; (3) Determining how the testing activity should be conducted in programming assignments; (4) How to help students become better testers; and (5) Choosing appropriate tools. The study also discussed possible solutions to the challenges as addressed in the literature.…”

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“…Note that, because our focus is on software-testing education, the search for review papers in this area was done more carefully, and thus we believe the five papers shown in the software-testing category in Table 1 are all that have been published so far on this topic. To keep our discussion focused, we discuss next only those five related review papers [15][16][17][18][19] and how this current SLM differs from them. To also help us differentiate our SLM, we list in Table 2 the RQs raised and studied in the five review papers.…”

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Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping

Garousi

Rainer

Lauvås

et al. 2020

Journal of Systems and Software

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Context: With the rising complexity and scale of software systems, there is an ever-increasing demand for sophisticated and cost-effective software testing. To meet such a demand, there is a need for a highly-skilled software testing work-force (test engineers) in the industry. To address that need, many university educators worldwide have included software-testing education in their software engineering (SE) or computer science (CS) programs. Many papers have been published in the last three decades (as early as 1992) to share experience from such undertakings.Objective: Our objective in this paper is to summarize the body of experience and knowledge in the area of software-testing education to benefit the readers (both educators and researchers) in designing and delivering software testing courses in university settings, and to also conduct further education research in this area. Method: To address the above need, we conducted a systematic literature mapping (SLM) to synthesize what the community of educators have published on this topic. After compiling a candidate pool of 307 papers, and applying a set of inclusion/exclusion criteria, our final pool included 204 papers published between 1992 and 2019.Results: The topic of software-testing education is becoming more active, as we can see by the increasing number of papers. Many pedagogical approaches (how to best teach testing), course-ware, and specific tools for testing education have been proposed. Many challenges in testing education and insights on how to overcome those challenges have been proposed.Conclusion: This paper provides educators and researchers with a classification of existing studies within software-testing education. We further synthesize challenges and insights reported when teaching software testing. The paper also provides a reference ("index") to the vast body of knowledge and experience on teaching software testing. Our mapping study aims to help educators and researchers to identify the best practices in this area to effectively plan and deliver their software testing courses, or to conduct further education-research in this important area.

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Challenges to integrate software testing into introductory programming courses

Cited by 9 publications

References 76 publications

How do Students Test Software Units?

How do Students Test Software Units?

Mapeamento sistemático sobre resolução de problemas em disciplina introdutória de programação com teste de software

Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping

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