Information System for MSF Technology Teaching: Stabilizing Phase

<p>Number and complexity of software systems is expanding rapidly. Given this, the testing complexity, in particular, complexity of testing program functioning in various environments is expanding in an equivalent manner, but IT-specialist&rsquo;s nonfunctional testing skills are falling short of expectations. Performance, cross-platform compatibility, usability and other nonfunctional testing factors have always been crucial to the success of software systems. Nevertheless, in the studying process, greater attention is put on functional testing learning and almost no time is set aside for providing environmental testing skills to students.</p><p>The work mission is to contribute to a better understanding of nonfunctional testing principles and processes. Therefore, the objective of this work is to provide students and faculty with an educational information system covering the fundamental practical nonfunctional testing aspects particularly in context of &ldquo;Microsoft Solution Framework&rdquo; methodology teaching.</p><p>The work comprises two inter-related sets of tasks. The first set relates to the observation part and the second set to the implementation part of the work. The major duties posed for the observation part are exploring of nonfunctional testing and approaches to nonfunctional testing teaching and analyzing of software applied for nonfunctional testing teaching process to information system requirements detecting. The implementation part tasks are information system architecture design and target information system accomplishment.</p><p>This project presents an information system, which models program behavior to be tested during the stabilizing phase. The information system allows student, acting in the capacity of tester, to configure testing environment and to run programs under test. After finishing the testing process this information system makes a report in what extent successful was test work (which errors were founded and which were missed). The developed program will help students to explore various types of testing such as performance testing,&nbsp; cross-platform compatibility testing, usability testing, cross-browser testing, data format testing, database scale testing, network access testing etc.</p>