Teaching Specification-Based Testing

Historically, relatively less emphasis has been placed on software testing in comparison with other activities, such as systems analysis and design, of the software life cycle in an undergraduate computer science or software engineering curriculum. Testing, however, is a common and important technique used to detect program faults. Thus, testing must be taught rigorously to the students. This paper reports our experience of teaching the classificationtree method as a black-box testing technique at The University of Melbourne and Swinburne University of Technology.