Teaching black-box testing to high school students

This paper focuses on pedagogy for teaching acceptance testing to high school students in the context of the new New Zealand computer science standards. A review of resources that are currently available for teaching acceptance testing to high school students shows a major gap. In order to bridge that gap we have identified and evaluated resources that can be used to teach the concept to school students, have designed and evaluated an interactive tool to teach acceptance testing, and described a student project for the relevant New Zealand achievement standard.

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