Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Software Testing and Quality Assurance

Course Description

CT 411, Software Testing and Quality Assurance is the course for the final year Information Technology students, at College of Engineering, Pune. The class strength is nearly 80.

Assignments Overview

The wikipedia based assignments are a part of the course assignments that are alocated 30 marks. Students are required to work on wikipedia page assigned to them. This section is only about the Wikipedia part of the course. (To be updated after discussion with Campus Ambassadors)

Article Selection

Assignments timeline

2011 July 31

  • Overview of the course
  • Introduction to the Wikipedia part of the course by User:pw.comp

2011 Aug 15

  • HANDOUT: "Welcome to Wikipedia" brochure
  • Campus Ambassadors introduce Wikipedia
    • How to edit Wikipedia
    • Tips on creating good Wikipedia Pages
  • Students to get introduced to Wikipedia browsing
  • Students to create user accounts, user pages, and update this page
  • Get your Wikipedia page finalized by the instructor

2011 Aug 31

  • Students to get assigned a campus ambassador and update this page with the name
  • Make first edits to your assigned pages
    • Write on talk pages of other students
  • STudy at least 10 articles / books on the topic

2011 Sep 15

  • Introduction to IRC chat
  • The first draft of the article on wiki
    • Discuss your updates with the Mentor/Instructor
  • Add the following code to the top of your article’s talk page to mark it as the subject of your assignment. Note: You must retrieve the code from the "edit" space of this page.

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2011 Sep 30

  • Review Meeting involving all participants
  • Introduction to Wikipedia Sandboxes
    • Write a summary of your changes in your sandbox
  • Read another 10 articles on the topic and resppond to the comments on the articles

2011 Oct 15

  • Read another 10 articles on the topic and respond to the comments on the articles

2011 Oct 30

  • Review the work of at least two other groups
    • Possibly update their assigned wiki pages/talk pages
  • Finalize the changes to your wikipedia Page. Mention the last edit on this page (deadline: Oct 25th 2011, 6 pm)
  • Open discussion with each group about their Wikipedia experience

Instructions for the students

Update this page with listing of your pair in the last section. Also list the page assigned to you and the name of your mentor campus ambassador. On your last edit, update the last edit link as well.

Some helpful resources

  • Go to the Wikipedia main page and have a look at all the features of Wikipedia.
  • To know the difference between an encyclopedia and an essay look at section 2.2 of this article: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia Is Not
  • Go and check out the Help Centre for more resources, guides and videos.

List of students

Please maintain this list in order sorted on Roll No. Also put up links to the pages that you are editing, your user-id.

Uses material from the Wikipedia article Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Software Testing and Quality Assurance, released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.