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COMS544 Software Testing and Quality Assurance

The document outlines the units of the course COMS 544: SOFTWARE TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE. Unit I covers software testing principles like the need for testing, testing strategies, and verification and validation. Unit II discusses white box and black box testing techniques. Unit III focuses on testing object oriented software. Unit IV introduces quality assurance and control. Unit V covers quality models like CMM and Six Sigma. The document also lists textbooks, references, and websites related to the course material.

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COMS544 Software Testing and Quality Assurance

The document outlines the units of the course COMS 544: SOFTWARE TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE. Unit I covers software testing principles like the need for testing, testing strategies, and verification and validation. Unit II discusses white box and black box testing techniques. Unit III focuses on testing object oriented software. Unit IV introduces quality assurance and control. Unit V covers quality models like CMM and Six Sigma. The document also lists textbooks, references, and websites related to the course material.

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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 II

TESTING 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 nonOO 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. (http://www.softwaretestinggenius.com/download/EMFST.pdf) 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. 8.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.pdf http://www.nickjenkins.net/prose/testingPrimer.pdf

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