Selected readings are taken from Beautiful Testing (Adam Goucher and Tim Riley, O'Reilly Media), 2009.

Beautiful Testing Online via the SFU Library (But note that there a limited number of online sessions for SFU users.)

Note: when notes are assigned as readings, linked web pages are only assigned to the extent that they are discussed in class.

• Quiz 1: Linda Wilkinson, "Was It Good For You?", Beautiful Testing, Chapter 1.
  • Friday January 16 2026.

• Quiz 2: based on the notes:
  • Software Testing: Dynamic Quality Assessment
  • Fault Seeding and Mutation Adequacy
  • Friday January 23 2026.

• Quiz 3: based on the notes:
  • White-Box Testing and Adequacy
  • Graph-Based Testing - Sumner
  • Friday January 30 2026.

• Quiz 4: Alan Page, "Beautiful Large-Scale Test Automation", Chapter 8 of Beautiful Testing.
  • Friday February 06 2026.

• Quiz 5: based on the notes, video and paper:
  • Black-Box Testing: The Category-Partition Method
  • Rick Kuhn - Combinatorial Testing Basics (Youtube)
  • Linbin Yu; Yu Lei; Raghu N. Kacker; D. Richard Kuhn - ACTS: A Combinatorial Testing Tool (SFU link)
  • Friday February 13 2026.

• Quiz 6: based on the SQA for Security notes.
  • Friday February 27 2026.

• Quiz 7: based on the notes on Fuzz Testing and Sanitizers
  • Friday March 06 2026.

• Quiz 8: based on the following notes.
  • Conformance Testing
  • Unicode and Internationalization Quality Issues
  • Software Refactoring | Investing in Code Quality
  • Friday March 13 2026.

• Quiz 9: based on Software Safety videos.
  • Introduction to Safety Engineering
  • Therac-25 Failure
  • Friday March 20 2026.

• Quiz 10: Review quiz - based on quizzes throughout the term.
  • Friday March 27 2026.