Eduqas A500QS 1.7: Software engineering
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What it covers
At GCSE you chose normal, boundary and erroneous test data and wrote test plans (F6.3). A level adds the question of who tests, when, and with what knowledge of the code. A professional project uses several strategies, because each finds errors the others miss.
- What testing is for
- Test data at A level
- Black box testing
- White box testing
- Who tests, and when
- Destructive testing
- A test plan
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Lessons that teach it
- A14.5 Testing strategies Software development, law and ethics
Black box and white box testing, alpha, beta and acceptance testing, destructive testing, and a black box test plan that finds two bugs. - A14.6 Software engineering tools and version control Software development, law and ethics
IDEs, CASE tools, documentation, and version control: commits, branches, merges and finding the commit that broke the robot. - A14.9 Project: the delivery robot Software development, law and ethics
A small project taken through analysis, design, implementation, testing and evaluation, the way the NEA is written up.
Try it on a robot
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