Week 12 on 9th May 2012 - Testing & Evaluation Part 1

Hi all,

This week, Prof J class, more focus on the last topic for the course "testing and evaluation".

Actually today class refresh back last week topic.

Last week, we were given three articles and required to memasterkan ourselves to one of the articles and explain back to our friends... This is the details about all three articles.

Article 1 : TYPES OF COURSEWARE TESTING

1. Functionality Testing

Testing that focuses on the development function. particularly with respect to programming language. 3 type of functionality testing

• Unit Testing:  Focus more on the programmer or the developer to check their own code. Check the code separately between each moduls.
• Integration Testing: More on testing the courseware when they want to merge the courseware... Whether the courseware can be merge or not, or any error occurs.
• Compatibility Testing: Testing the courseware on the various kinds of user hardware and software configurations

2. Usability Testing

Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. Usability is defined by 5 quality components:

• Learnability
• Efficiency
• Memorability
• Errors
• Satisfaction

Article 2: COURSEWARE TESTING APPROACH

There are few ways we can used to test our courseware.. There are:

1. Self testing - 
2. peer testing
3. Concept Testing (Focus Groups)
4. Field trials

Article 3 : COURSEWARE TESTING STAGES

1. Alpha Testing - Alpha testing is conducted when the prototype of the multimedia courseware is ready and the courseware can take inputs and generate outputs
2. Beta Testing - Beta testing comes after alpha testing and can be considered a form of external user acceptance testing