Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

This course covers fundamental concepts in software testing and specific areas such as: testing through the life cycle of a software system, static testing techniques, test design techniques, test management, testing tool support, testing user experiences, accessibility testing, exploratory testing, automated testing, test-driven development .

Learning outcome

After taking IN4240:

  • you can use modern test processes in software development and project management,
  • you can create test strategies and plans, design test cases and prioritize and execute them
  • you can manage risks and adverse events within a project and contribute to efficient software delivery and improvement of system development processes
  • you can be responsible for and be able to lead the test activity throughout a software project's entire life cycle

Admission to the course

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for?in Studentweb.

IN3240 and IN4240 vil be view together?in regards to capacity, with priority given to bachelor students belonging to the programme?Informatics: Programming and System Architecture and master students belonging to the programme?Informatics: Programming and System Architecture.

This course is based on IN1000 – Introduction to Object-oriented Programming and partly on IN1030 – Systems, Requirements and Consequences or INF1050 – Systems Development (continued). It is also recommended to have taken IN1010 – Object-oriented Programming

Overlapping courses

Teaching

2 hours of lectures a