APPLY TESTING TECHNIQUES FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTICTPRG529

SESSION 2 OVERVIEW

• Development, Test and Production computing environments

• Test plans

• Assessment 2 overview

• Software created must first be extensively tested before going ‘live’

• Testing should never be done on the production servers or

computers

• Test server may sometimes be referred to as ‘staging’ server

• Production servers can be replicated for fail over protection

Test environments

• A test plan can have the following sections as a minimum:

o Project title

o Documentation for revision history

o Introduction describing the project

o What’s in and out of scope

o The hardware and software of the testing environment

o Details of each test to be done

o Sign-off and feedback for each test done

o Contact person regards the testing

o Archived material so the test can be replicated in full at a later

date

Test plans

Global Holidays – sample test

Global Holidays relational database mud map

The Global holidays database data (1)

Cities

Hotels

Countries

HotelPhotos

The Global holidays database data (2)Rooms

BedTypes

The Global holidays database data (3)Guests

Bookings

Global Holidays normalised tables

GlobalHolidays database:Countries (CountryID, Country)Cities (CityID, City, CountryID)Guests (GuestID, [FirstName], [LastName], [Gender{M,F}], [CountryID], JoinDate, [Email], [Password])Hotels (HotelID, HotelName, CityID, [ParkingSpaces], [PetFriendly], [JoinDate], [HotelViewDesc])HotelPhotos (HotelPhotoID, HotelID, HotelPhotoName, MainDisplayPhoto{Y,N})BedTypes (BedTypeID, BedTypeDesc)Rooms (HotelID, HotelRoomNum, BedTypeID, [RoomDesc], [StandardPrice], [Sleeps])Bookings (BookingID, GuestID, HotelID, HotelRoomNum, Checkin, Checkout, [NumGuests]) Notes:- Table names are in bold- Primary keys are underlined- Foreign keys are not explicitly labelled as foreign keys- Columns that can have NULLS i.e. it is optional to enter data in them, are in [square brackets]- Columns where the data entered can only be one of the listed alternatives are in {curly brackets separated by a comma} e.g. Gender {M,F} means a user can only enter a ‘M’, or a ‘F’ (M=Male, F=Female)

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