PBL NO ENSINO DE TESTES DE SOFTWARE: UMA EXPERIÊNCIA PRÁTICA

Abstract

The activity of software testing is an area of ITthat has grown over the years and that is directly related tothe need to produce quality products that meet increasingdemands. By focusing on the professionals responsible forquality assurance, as the Engineer of Tests, skills andcompetence of these need to be developed based on a verycritical and detailed view of the problem. In this context, thispaper proposes the adoption of PBL (problem-basedlearning) as a teaching methodology for the professionalstraining in software testing. To prove the applicability of thisproposal, an empirical study was developed with positiveresults in teaching the discipline of testing.Index Terms ⎯ Problem-Based Learning, Software Testing,Training.