Towards a Question-Driven Teaching Method for Software Testing Course

Social demand on high-quality software has become more and more imperative, and thus how to cultivate skilled software testers is an arduous task for education community all over the world. Based on the experiences and related method experiments of teaching software testing course, a new teaching method named question-driven teaching method (QDTM) is proposed to enrich the education for professional testers. The method is detailedly addressed from such aspects, as course design, implementation process and subsequent practice, and it has been applied into software testing course in software engineering major. The comparison results indicate that QDTM can achieve a better teaching effect in the real applications.