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| - | ====== Week 11: Debugging and Unit Testing ====== | + | ====== Week 12: Debugging and Unit Testing ====== |
| ===== Objectives ===== | ===== Objectives ===== | ||
| + | * Teach effective ways to find bugs in programs. | ||
| + | * Motivate students to adequately test their programs. | ||
| ===== Readings for Class Discussion ===== | ===== Readings for Class Discussion ===== | ||
| - | * | + | * Christensen (2008). [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/1142023521204862/|Experiences with a Focus on Testing in Teaching]]. BCK. |
| + | * McCauley (2008). [[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08993400802114581|Debugging: A Review of the Literature from an Educational Perspective]]. | ||
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| + | Optional: | ||
| + | * Ahmadzadeh (2005). An Analysis of Patterns of Debugging Among Computer Science Students. | ||
| + | * Murphy (2010). Pair Debugging: A Transactive Discourse Analysis. | ||
| ===== Topics ===== | ===== Topics ===== | ||
| - | * | + | * Programming by testing first |
| + | * Using a debugger (Java vs. C/C++) | ||
| + | * Keys to debugging (from Horstmann, Chapter 6): | ||
| + | * breakpoints | ||
| + | * single-stepping | ||
| + | * inspecting variables | ||
| + | * Assertions and invariants | ||
| + | * Unit testing | ||
| + | * Code coverage and creating test cases | ||
| ===== Lab ====== | ===== Lab ====== | ||
| - | * AP CS: | + | * AP CS: Locate sections in Horstmann related to debugging and testing |
| + | * JUnit testing in Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) | ||
| + | * JSwat (http://www.bluemarsh.com/java/jswat) | ||
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