Class Notes for CS 442 Spring 2026

For spring 2026 and following most notes and handouts are posted to Blackboard.

Material below this line has been used in past semesters, and may ( or may not ) be used again this semester:

• Pezze ( Software Testing and Analysis ) Notes:
  • Chapter 12 - Structural Testing
  • Chapters 9 & 10 - Introduction and Functional Testing
• xUnit & JUnit
• Test Driven Development, TDD
  • See also handouts handed out in class.
• Refactoring
  • Lecture notes
  • Excerpt from "Refactoring" by Martin Fowler
  • Refactoring Smell Mappings
  • Refactoring Summaries
  • See also handouts handed out in class.
• Development Practices
• Extreme Programming, XP
  • Lecture notes, based on:
    • "Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres.
    • Wikipedia on Extreme Programming
    • Wikipedia on Extreme Programming Practices
  • "Planning Extreme Programming" by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
• Scrum
  • Lecture notes
  • Exerpt from "Essential Scrum" by Kenneth S. Rubin
  • Wikipedia on Scrum( software development )
  • Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland, "The Scrum Guide", from scrum.org.
• Agile Methodologies
  • Lecture notes
  • Wikipedia: Agile Software Development

( See also collection of excerpts posted to Blackboard. )

• Data Flow Testing
• Structural Testing

• See also the Resources page for more information on the sources used to cover this topic.
• SW Inspection Template ( Found by a student. No guarantees for suitability. )
• Use Case Form
  • With Instructions - Doc format, PDF Format
  • Blank - Doc format, PDF Format

Material for Future Lectures: