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Software Engineering, CS 551
Spring 2004
Over the last few decades, software systems have shifted from batch-oriented, command-
driven system towards interactive systems driven through a graphic user interface (GUI).
Discuss the impact of this shift upon
1. Unit testing
2. Integration and System Testing
3. Acceptance Testing
4. Regression Testing
Include in your answer an estimation of the significance of the effects, if any, of the
change. Make note of any testing tools or techniques that have evolved in specific
reaction to this change.
5. If you were devising a test plan for a GUI-driven system and were informed that the
system was developed using an MVC framework, how would you exploit that framework
during testing?
