COMS 544: SOFTWARE TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE UNIT I SOFTWARE TESTING PRINCIPLES: Need for testing - Psychology of testing – Testing economics - White box, Black box, Grey box testing SDLC and Testing - Verification & Validation - Weyuker's adequacy axioms. UNIT IITESTING STRATEGIES: White box testing techniques - Statement coverage - Branch Coverage - Condition coverage - Decision/Condition coverage - Multiple condition coverage – Dataflow coverage - Mutation testing - Automated code coverage analysis - Black box testing techniques - Boundary value analysis - Robustness testing - Equivalence partitioning - Syntax testing – Finite state testing - Levels of testing - Unit, Integration and System Testing. UNIT III TESTING OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE: Challenges - Differences from testing non-OO Software - Class testing strategies - Class Modality - State-based Testing - Message Sequence Specification.
UNIT IV Introduction to Quality and Quality Control - Evolution of Quality Control - Quality assurance - Quality circles and Quality improvement teams - Benefits of Quality control- Quality and Reliability - Quality costs - Measuring Quality costs - Total Quality Management. UNIT V CMM Model and its stages - Introduction to PCMM, CMMI and Six Sigma concepts. ISO 9000, ISO 9000 Part3 for software Quality. TEXT BOOKS 1. Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering.
A Practitioners Approach , Fifth Edition, 2001 2. William E.Perry, " Effective Methods for Software Testing (2nd Edition) ", John Wiley & Sons, 2000. 3.
Robert V. Binder, " Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models Patterns and Tools ", Addison Wesley, 2000. 4. Rajneesh Kapur, Getting ISO 9000 in a software organization , By BPB Publications.
5. Allan C Gillies, Software Quality theory and management , Thompson learning. 6. Stephen H. Kan, Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering , Pearson Education.
7. Norman E Fenton and Shan Lawrence Pfleeger, Software Metrics , Thompson learning. . Mordechan Ben, Chrissis Mike Konard and Sandy Shrum, CMMI, Pearson Education Ltd.
REFERENCES 1. Glenford J. Myers, "The Art of Software Testing ", John Wiley & Sons, 1997. 2. Boris Beizer, Black-Box Testing: "Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems", John Wiley & Sons, 1995. 3.
P. C. Jorgensen, " Software Testing - A Craftman's Approach ", CRC Press, 1995. Websites: http://www. softwaretestinggenius. com/download/EMFST.
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