Application Research of CDIO Education Initiative in Reforming Online-Offline Hybrid Teaching of "Software Testing" Course

Abstract

CDIO is an innovative educational concept used around the world to improve the quality of undergraduate engineering education. It is very suitable to be applied to guide the teaching reform of software testing course, which is an important part of software engineering education. Due to problems like the lack of practice in traditional software testing teaching and that of students' interest in learning, we proposed a novel CDIO-based online-offline hybrid teaching reform model for software testing course. In this reformed teaching model, guided by the CDIO educational initiative, we redesigned the course structure to adjust the teaching content, developed multiple online course practice trainings in an online curriculum resource library, and built a teaching evaluation mechanism corresponding to case-based offline teaching. This teaching reform, to a certain extent, has achieved the goal of strengthening practice, enhancing students' interest in learning, and improving their professional quality and software testing skills. This teaching practice provides reference and inspiration for the innovation and reform of software engineering education in colleges and universities.