University of Arizona, Department of Computer Science

CSc 120 (Fall 2017): Assignment 7 Black-box Tests

Submission Deadline: 7PM Tue Oct 17

You are to submit up to five black-box test inputs for the long problem for this assignment. This is worth 10 points (two points per test input).

What to submit

Put all five black-box inputs into a single text file, named dates-tests.txt.

Within the file, organize the tests as follows:

# Test ID. (a number for identification purposes, plus an indication of whether it is a regular/edge case/error test)
# What aspect of the program's behavior this is testing
#   (English prose, one or two sentences).
The test input (keep it as short as you can while meeting the test goals)
# End of test

In some situations, it may be impossible to provide an actual test input (e.g., if the test input involves a nonexistent or unreadable file). In this case, provide a short English description (one or two sentences) of the test.

Submit at most two normal-behavior tests and at most two error-behavior tests. The fifth test can be either a normal-behavior test or an error-behavior test.

Grading criteria

The test cases you submit will be graded using the following criteria:

  1. Do they test different things? Having a lot of tests that test the same thing is not useful.

  2. Are they meaningful? Do they test some aspect of the program's behavior that makes sense to test given the assignment spec?

When to submit

The submission deadline is 7PM on Tue Oct 17.

Where to submit

Submit your files here.

Example

Here is an example of a black-box test file in the format described above.
# Test 1 (error)
# This tests whether the program can handle radioactivity in the input
The input is a large lump of Uranium-238
# End of test
 
# Test 2 (error)
# This tests whether the program handles negative numbers
-27
# End of test
 
# Test 3 (edge case)
# This tests whether the program can handle an empty list as input
[]
# End of test
 
# Test 4 (regular)
# This tests the program's behavior on a non-empty list of numbers
[1, 2, 3, 4]
# End of test
 
# Test 5 (regular)
# This tests the program's behavior on a non-empty list of strings
['aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc']
# End of test