Automated Software Testing in Java
Software testing gets a bad rap for being difficult, time-consuming, redundant, and above all - boring. But in fact, it is a proven way to ensure that your software will work flawlessly and meet release schedules.
In this two-course series, we will teach you automated software testing in an inspiring way. We will show you that testing is not as daunting a task as you might think, and how automated testing will make you a better developer who programs excellent software.
This program will cover software testing as it is practiced in industry. The first course will cover various techniques using JUnit, including unit testing, test adequacy and code coverage, mock objects, test-driven development, design for testability and test code quality. The second course will cover state-based and web testing, combinatorial testing, mutation testing, static analysis tools, and property-based testing.
This is a highly practical program and it suits software developers, QA engineers and software testers in Java development environment.
Job Outlook
- Software testing skills are essential for developers who would like to become senior developers, especially in big tech companies.
- Estimated annual salary of senior Java developers amounts to $116,885 USD per year (indeed.com, in the United States).
- Estimated annual salary of software test engineers amounts to $95,159 USD per year (indeed.com, in the United States).
Real Career Impact
"Software testing is indispensable for developers who want to ship high-quality software. The techniques and methods used by Delft University of Technology will prepare you to contribute to a software team using industry-standard workflows. The program will equip any Java developer, QA engineer, or software tester with important skills."
— Vanessa Gennarelli , General Manager Education, GitHub
"Every single day, millions of people around the world pay through the Adyen payments platform. Even in such zero fault tolerance environment, Adyen develops new features at a high pace and does a full software release every week. This would be impossible without investing heavily in a solid testing infrastructure. At Adyen, we encourage our teams to take software testing to the next level. Software testing is a linchpin of our success. The Automated Software Testing Program of Delft University of Technology provides a solid and practical basis of software testing and teach industry-standard methods used to automate the testing process."
— Bert Wolters , SVP Innovation, Adyen
What You'll Learn:
- How to unit test any software system using current state-of-the-art tools.
- How to derive test cases that deal with exceptional, corner, and bad weather cases by means of several different techniques.
- How to develop testable architectures and to write maintainable test code.
- The limitations of current testing techniques, and how to choose the best testing strategies for a given context.
Arie van Deursen
Professor in Software EngineeringDelft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Maurício Aniche
Assistant Professor in Software EngineeringDelft University of Technology (TU Delft)
