Design and Application of a Testing Framework of Online Course Based on Agile

Abstract

On the basis of the feature analysis on development of online course from the perspective of software engineering, a testing framework of online course based on agile is designed firstly. The framework consists of four test cycles with iteration by test stages on preparing for testing, pre-testing, functionality testing and regression testing, and with a test process of acceptance testing at the end of four test cycles before product delivery. The evaluation on organization of the contents of chapter-section structure is also embodied in this framework. Secondly, the framework is fully applied to the agile testing project for an actual online course of "Software Engineering", experimental result shows that more bugs for types of structure of contents, usability, compatibility, installing, security, and navigability of the online course are detected in time and test result is noticeable. Finally, putting forward that some features and aspects on non-functionality testing through test automation together with effective exploratory testing method, and constructing an automated testing environment on cloud computing for big data processing will be the future research.