SE515/502 Software Testing and Quality Assurance

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Course Description

Processes and methods for developing, assessing and maintaining quality software. Quality factors, reliability, robustness etc. Software quality assurance via verification, testing and fault-tolerance. Software quality standards and enforcement processes. Software verification.

Prerequisites

Software Quality Assurance and/or Software Testing

Course Objectives

• Develop a working understanding concepts, metrics, and models in software quality assurance
• to provide students with the knowledge software engineering testing process

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course the student should be able to

• develop and/or analyze software based on quality management standards.
• choose appropriate testing strategies and develop test cases.
• apply variety of testing techniques, methods, and tools in a project.

Grading Policy

The tentative point distribution is as follows.

Homeworks	20%
Project	40%
Final Exam	40%

Policies

• Late assignments will not be accepted unless an agreement is reached with the leturer.
• The class grades will be assigned using the Near East University's grading scale.
• I allow students to attend class at their own discretion. If you miss a class however, you are responsible for the materials covered.
• Cheating will not be tolerated.
• Attacks performed against University/Lecturer resources are expressly prohibited.

Textbook

• Jeff Tian, Software Quality Engineering: Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quantifiable Improvement, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-471-71345-7

Additional Books

• Stephen H. Kan, "Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering", Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2003
• Paul Ammann and Jeff Offutt, "Introduction to Software Testing", Cambridge University Press, 2008
• Kshirasagar Naik and Priyadarshi Tripathy, "Software Testing and Quality Assurance", Wiley, 2008
• Stephen Vance, "Quality Code: Software Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns", Addison-Wesley Professional, 2013
• Alexander Tarlinder, "Developer Testing Building Quality into Software", Addison-Wesley Professional, 2016

News/Announcements

• Classes Commence: Oct. 05, 2017
• Class meets weekly on Thursdays 11:00-12:50 and 14:00-14:50, Innovation and Information Technologies Center Room: L13
• Project proposal due date: Nov. 02, 2017
  How to write a research/project proposal
• Project report due date: Dec.28, 2017
  Guidelines for writing reports
• Presentation date: Jan. 04, 2018
• Final Exam: Jan. 08-13, 2018

Schedule

Week	Topic	Readings
1	Introduction Slides: Ch1, Ch2, Ch3	Chapter 1, 2 and 3
2 and 3	Quality Assurance (QA), Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) overview and testing techniques Slides: Ch4, Ch5, Ch6	Chapter 4, 5 and 6
4 and 5	Testing Activities, Management, and Automation; Coverage and Usage Testing Based on Checklists and Partitions; Boundary Testing Slides: Ch7, Ch8, Ch9	Chapter 7, 8 and 9
6	Coverage and Usage Testing Based on Finite-State Machines and Markov Chains; Control Flow, Data Dependency, and Interaction Testing Slides: Ch10, Ch11	Chapter 10 and 11
7 and 8	Testing Techniques: Adaptation, Specialization, and Integration Defect Prevention and Process Improvement; Software Inspection Slides: Ch12, Ch13, Ch14	Chapter 12, 13 and 14
9 and 10	Formal Verification; Fault Tolerance and Failure Containment; Comparing QA Techniques and Activities Slides: Ch15, Ch16, Ch17	Chapter 15, 16 and 17
11	Feedback Loop and Activities for Quantifiable Quality Improvement; Quality Models and Measurements Slides: Ch18, Ch19	Chapter 18, 19
12 and 13	Defect Classification and Analysis; Risk Identification for Quantifiable Quality Improvement; Software Reliability Engineering Slides: Ch20, Ch21 Ch22	Chapter 20, 21 and 22
14	Project Presentations
15	Final Exam	.

The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the above syllabus as necessary. Students are responsible to be aware of changes announced in class and/or via the internet.