Lesson Plan for a 45’ tutorial

Programmers who have already written programs on their own but would like to learn about automated software testing.

During the tutorial participants will implement automatic test functions that pass for the Moby Dick example. using the unittest module within 20’.

module	topic	time
warm-up	hello	1’
warm-up	question: How do you know that your code works?	4’
motivation	explain the benefit: You will be able to check in a few seconds that your program works.	1’
new content	overview of the code example	1’
new content	run the code example; collective analysis	15’
application	write code using the task description	20’
wrap-up	discuss pros and cons of testing	15’
wrap-up	point to materials	2’
wrap-up	goodbye	1’