Session 10/Unit 3

Unit testing as an engineering practice: test design, test doubles, coverage as a signal, and tests as the oracle for human and AI written code

Approximate date

Wed 9 Dec 2026, approximate

Instruction week

Week 4 of 18, beginning Mon 7 Dec 2026

Course outcomes

• CO4 Implement comprehensive testing strategies to ensure high software quality.

Reading

Roger S. Pressman and Bruce R. Maxim, Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 9th ed.

Additional reading

Suggested reading, not prescribed.

• AR4Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright. 2020. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time. O’Reilly Media.

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