Teaching an active-participation university course in software reliability and testing

A large percentage of software development costs are spent on software reliability and testing. However, many practicing software engineers and graduate students in computer science have never taken a course in software reliability or software testing. A graduate-level software engineering course at North Carolina State University provides instruction in these topics to better prepare current and future software engineers for the software reliability and testing challenges. The course takes place in a laboratory setting such that students can learn testing and reliability theory and apply this theory immediately