W01 Quiz: Course Expectations
Welcome!
Welcome to the Software Testing course. Throughout your learning you have worked hard to build systems. This class will teach you techniques to validate your systems against design goals, ensure updates do not break the system, and certify your system can meet its demands.
The course covers a lot of ground and provides a lot of hands-on experience. When you have successfully completed the course you will have a good understanding of the testing industry, its tools and career opportunities.
Each week you will:
- Read a chapter in the book Introduction to Software Testing,
- Take a quiz on the reading material.
- Complete hands-on activities to give you experience with the topic of the week.
About the book:
Each week you will read a chapter from the book Introduction to Software Testing, by Brother Quinn R. Briggs, who just happens to be one of our great faculty members at BYU-Idaho! This book is custom written for this course. It has been written in condensed format to give you the information as succinctly as possible. Each chapter could be 5 times a long… If you find yourself desiring to learn more about a topic, do a little research on your own, there is a lot of information freely available on the internet.
You might want to bookmark the book here is the link again. Introduction to Software Testing
Getting help
You will use a lot of tools and techniques to complete this class. The instruction materials are quite thorough, but you might find you need additional help at times. You can get help a lot of ways. Here are a few:
- Ask your classmates: You have been enrolled in a Microsoft Teams team for this class, us it to collaborate with your classmates, they are smart and just might have the answers as they are working on the same things as you.
- Search: Use your search skills to find answers.
- AI: Step up your search using AI such as copilot or ChatGPT, many times AI can help summarize information from multiple sources on the internet.
- Tutor: Contact a tutor.
- Teacher: Contact your teacher. If you are feeling lost or can't find answers with the above methods, reach out to your teacher, he/she loves to help! It is the best part of being a teacher.
- Pray: Don’t forget your prayers. God wants to help but, He usually waits until you ask.
Pace yourself
There is a lot to do in this course, if you wait till the last minute to do your assignments, you will probably not meet with success. Start your assignments early so you have time to figure things out. Remember there is a LOT of hands-on work in this class.
Most of all have fun learning!
Submission
Return to Canvas and read the course syllabus then take the W01 Quiz: Course Expectations quiz.
Useful Links:
- Return to: Week Overview | Course Home | Canvas