SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE AND TESTING
VI SEMESTER: CSE & CSIT
Course Code Category Hours / Week Credits Maximum Marks
L T P C CIA SEE Total
ACIC02 Core
3 0 0 3 30 70 100
Contact Classes: 45 Tutorial Classes: Nil Practical Classes: Nil Total Classes:45
Prerequisites: Object Oriented Software Engineering
I. COURSE OVERVIEW:
Software Quality and Testing refers to practical approach to software testing as a sub-discipline of software
engineering. It introduces software quality concepts, standards, measurements, and practices that support the
production of quality software. It offers a solid foundation in testing fundamentals including test case design,
test management, and test measurement strategies, which improve the effectiveness of software test processes.
II. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The students will try to learn:
I. The software testing and quality assurance as a fundamental component of software life cycle.
II. Describe fundamental concepts of software quality assurance.
III. How to use software quality tools and analyze their effectiveness.
IV. The quality management, assurance, and quality standard to software system.
III. COURSE OUTCOMES:
After successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
CO 1 Demonstrate the power of wide variety of testing techniques in developing Understand
qualitative software as per customer needs
CO 2 Make use of various system testing strategies at various levels for analyzing Apply
likelihood of faults and generating defect free software product
CO 3 Utilize Testing plans and procedures for developing effective softwareproduct Apply
CO 4 Analyze automated Testing models for evaluating correctness of realtime software Analyze
systems
CO 5 Illustrate the importance of standards in the quality management process and their Understand
impact on the final product
CO 6 Inspect Quality assurance tools techniques to manage Risk and assess quality of Analyze
software developed for engineering applications
IV. SYLLABUS:
MODULE – I: SOFTWARE TESTING, CONCEPTS, ISSUES, AND TECHNIQUES (10)
Quality revolution, verification and validation, failure, error, fault, and defect, objectives of testing, testing
activities, test case selection white-box and black box, test planning and design, test tools and automation, power
of test, test team organization and management, test groups, software quality assurance group, system test team
hierarchy, team building.
MODULE – II: SYSTEM TESTING (10)
System testing, system integration techniques, incremental, top-down bottom-up sandwich and big bang, software
and hardware integration, hardware design verification tests, hardware and software compatibility matrix test plan
for system integration. built, in testing. functional testing, testing a function in context. boundary value analysis,
decision tables. acceptance testing, selection of acceptance criteria, acceptance test plan, test execution test.
software reliability, fault and failure, factors influencing software, reliability models.
MODULE – III: SYSTEM TEST CATEGORIES (09)
Taxonomy of system tests, interface tests, functionality tests; GUI tests, security tests feature tests, robustness
tests, boundary value tests power cycling tests interoperability tests, scalability tests, stress tests, load and stability
tests, reliability tests, regression tests, regulatory tests.
Test generation from FSM models, State-Oriented Model, Finite-State Machine Transition Tour Method, testing
with state verification, test architectures, local, distributed, coordinated, remote, system test design, test design
factors requirement identification, modeling a test design process test design preparedness, metrics, test case
design effectiveness; System test execution, modeling defects, metrics for monitoring test execution, defect
reports, defect causal analysis, beta testing, measuring test effectiveness.
MODULE – IV: SOFTWARE QUALITY (08)
Software quality, People‘s Quality Expectations, Frameworks and ISO, 9126, McCall‘s Quality Factors and
Criteria – Relationship, Quality Metrics, Quality Characteristics ISO 9000:2000 Software Quality Standard;
Maturity models: Test Process Improvement, Testing Maturity Model.
MODULE– V: SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE (08)
Quality Assurance, Root Cause Analysis, modeling, technologies, standards and methodologies for defect
prevention; Fault tolerance and failure containment, safety assurance and damage control, hazard analysis using
fault-trees and event-trees. Comparing quality assurance techniques and activities; QA monitoring and
measurement, risk identification for quantifiable quality improvement; Case Study: FSM-Based Testing of Web-
Based Applications.
V. TEXT BOOKS:
1. Kshira Sagar Naik Priyadarshi Tripathy, “Software Testing and Quality Assurance-Theory and Practice”,
John Wiley & Sons Inc, Wiley Student Edition, 2010.
2. Jeff Tian, “Software Quality Engineering: Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quantifiable Improvement”, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2005.
VI. REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Daniel Galin, “Software Quality Assurance - From Theory to Implementation”, Pearson Education Ltd UK,
2004.
2. MilindLimaye, “Software Quality Assurance”, TMH, New Delhi, 2011.
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