Course: Software Quality Assurance & Test

This course provides an elementary introduction to software quality assurance and test. Topics include: Why do software testing? The meaning of black-box testing and white-box testing; Software Testing throughout the Software Process; Software Testing and Extreme Programming; The Automation of Software Testing; Difficulties and Limitations of Software Testing; The Business of Software Testing; Implementing and Automated Testing.
Students at the end of course should be able to do the following:
1)Understand the effectively strategies of testing, the methods and technologies of software testing;
2)Design test plan and test cases;
3)Do automatic testing;
4)Establish a testing group and manage the whole testing project;
5)Clearly and correctly report the software defectives;
6)Asses the software product correctly;
7)Distinguish relationship between the software testing and the quality assurance.

Syllabus

Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Software Engineering
Recommed Textbooks
Software testing, Marc Roper, McGraw-Hill Companies, 1994. ISBN: 0077074661.
References:
1) Software Engineering - A Practitioner's Approach (5th ED), Roger S. Pressman, Tshinghua Press, 2001.
2) Software quality assurance, Daniel Galin, China Machine Press, ISBN:711116787, 2005.
3) Software testing, R. Patton, China Machine Press, ISBN: 7111185269, 2006.
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Course policies

Grading: Grades for the course will be based on the following weighting
1) Project: 40% 2) Final exam: 60%
Project:
1)Students are divided into several groups, with each group up to 7 people. The groups are choosen by students themselves. Each group has one leader.
2)The project is due in class as noted in the syllabus and web page. The report of project is turned in within 48 hours of the due dates will be penalized 20%. More than two days late may not get graded at all.