Improving software testing course experience with pair testing pattern

Pair programming is a software engineering agile technique where two programmers use a single computer to perform certain tasks together. Research in using pair programming in education showed that pair programming has a positive effect in improving students' ability and willingness to continue learning and practising. In comparison with research in this specific area little research was reported in evaluating the use of pair programming for teaching other software engineering skills (e.g., pair testing, pair design, etc.). This paper focuses on assessing and evaluating the use of pair programming techniques in developing and writing test cases in order to test software systems. Pair programming experiments was used to evaluate the ability of students to learn how to create test cases with different perspectives of coverage in mind.

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