Course Title: ADVANCED SOFTWARE TESTING & QUALITY ASSURANCE

Credit Units:

Course Level: PG

Course Code: IT610

Course Objectives:

The objective of this course is to expose the students to the Fundamentals and advance concepts in Software testing and quality management. This course discusses

about Software testing approaches, Verification and validation Concepts, Guidelines for Building Tests and Test Plans: Designing and Creating Tests, Testing

Measurements and Tools and Quality Assurance and Standards

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of numerical mathematics, Designing, Testing and Quality skills.

Course Contents/Syllabus:

Weightage (%)

Module I Introduction 15

Software Testing Fundamentals - Software Testing Definition, Importance, objectives, why is it too hard? Errors, faults and failure.

Testing process, STLC, QA and QC, Verification and Validation, Inspections and walkthroughs, Test Plan, test cases, drivers,

stubs, Validation checks.

Module II Black box, white box testing 20

Black box testing - Definition, Equivalence Class, Boundary Value Analysis, White box testing – Definition, Difference between

black box testing and white box testing, Path testing, Cyclomatic complexity, graph metrics, mutation testing, cause-effect

graphing

Module III Levels of testing 20

Levels of testing- Low level testing- Unit testing and Integration testing. High level testing- System testing, performance testing,

stress testing, load testing, volume testing, smoke and sanity testing, Installation testing, usability testing, website testing, security

testing, recovery testing, Domain testing, Static testing and dynamic testing,

Module IV Regression Testing and automated test data generation 20

Test cases– Designing, Execution. Reducing number of test cases- Prioritization guidelines, priority category, scheme, risk

analysis, regression testing, test case prioritization, automated test data generation

L T P/S SW/F

W

TOTAL

CREDIT

UNITS

3 - 4 - 5

Module V Quality assurance & TMM 25

Cohesion and coupling in class testing, GUI testing, integration and system testing, Automated Testing tools - Manual vs.

Automated testing, Static and Dynamic Testing tools, Characteristics: Rational tools, Quality Standards- CMM, ISO, Six sigma,

McCall’s Quality Factors and Criteria, Quality Metrics, Configuration Management, Concepts of Daily Build Daily Test (DBDT).

The testing maturity model and the test process assessment: the need for a testing maturity model, approach to model

development, process improvement model representation, The TMM Structure, relation of the TMM to other process improvement

models

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will demonstrate the ability to manage a project including planning, scheduling and risk assessment/management

2. Student learn systematic approach to the development, operation, maintenance, and retirement of software

3. Student learn how to use available resources to develop software, reduce cost of software and how to maintain quality of software

4. Methods and tools of testing and maintenance of software 5. Have an ability understand and identify various software testing problems, and solve these problems by designing and selecting software test models, criteria, strategies,

and methods.

6. Develop methods and procedures for software development that can scale up for large systems and that can be used to consistently produce high-quality software at low

cost and with a small cycle time

Pedagogy for Course Delivery:

Subject will be taught on the basis of lectures, practical implementation of concepts learn in the classroom using various real life situations and discussing case study

covering different module with special reference to enterprise applications

Lab/Practical’s details, if applicable:

List of Experiments:

1. Design test cases using Boundary value analysis by taking quadratic equation problem

2. Design test cases using Robust analysis by taking quadratic equation problem

3. Design test cases using Equivalence class partitioning by taking triangle problem

4. Design test cases using Decision table by taking triangle problem

5. Design independent paths by calculating cyclometic complexity using date problem

6. Design independent paths by taking DD path using date problem

7. Design the test cases for login page of AMIZONE

8. Design the test cases to enter integer in an array and to check the subscript of array entered

9. Overview of Testing process using Rational Robot

10. Write a script to record verification point using Rational Robot (For GUI testing of single click on window OS)

11. Write programs in „C? Language to demonstrate the working of the following a. constructs: i) do...while ii) while….do iii) if…else iv) switch v) for

12. Overview of Win Runner

13. A program written in C language for Matrix Multiplication fails. Introspect the causes for its failure and write down the possible reasons for its failure.

14. Take any system (e.g. ATM system) and study its system specifications and report the various bugs.

15. Write the test cases for any known application (e.g. Banking application)

16. Create a test plan document for any application (e.g. Library Management System)

Open Ended Experiments

1. Design test cases using Boundary value analysis by taking passing /promoting criteria of AUUP as per student handbook of AUUP

2. Write a script to record verification point using Rational Robot (For opening a windows application)

3. Write a script to record verification point using Rational Robot (For opening and working on Social Networking site)

Assessment/ Examination Scheme:

Theory L/T (%) Lab/Practical/Studio (%) Total (%)

60% 40% 100%

Theory Assessment (L&T):

Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment End Term Examination

Components (Drop

down)

Mid Term Exam

Home Assignment

Presentation/Viva

Attendance

Weightage (%) 10% 8% 7% 5% 70%

Lab/ Practical/ Studio Assessment:

Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment End Term Examination

Components (Drop down Lab Performance Lab File Viva Attendance

Weightage (%) 10 10 5 5

70

Text Reading:

• Software Testing, Srinivasan Desikan, Pearson Education

• William Perry, “Effective Methods for Software Testing”, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995.

• Ilene Burnstein, “Practical Software Testing- A Process Oriented Approach”, Springer, New York, 2002.

• Glenford J. Myers, “The Art of Software Testing”, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

• Ron Patton, “Software Testing”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2007.

• K.K. Aggarwal & Yogesh Singh, “Software Engineering”, New Age International Publishers, New Delhi, 2005

• Yogesh Singh, “Software Testing”, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2012

• Naresh Chauhan, “Software Testing”, Oxford University Press, 2013

• Milind G. Limaye, “Software Testing”, McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

References:

• Foundations of software Testing, ISTQB Certification, Dorothy Graham

• Software Test Engineer's Handbook, Graham Bahms

• Roger S. Pressman, “Software Engineering – A Practitioner’s Approach”, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill International Edition, New Delhi, 2001.

• Boris Beizer, “Black-Box Testing – Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems”, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1995.

• Marc Roper, “Software Testing”, McGraw-Hill Book Co., London, 1994.

• Gordon Schulmeyer, “Zero Defect Software”, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990.

• Watts Humphrey, “Managing the Software Process”, Addison Wesley Pub. Co. Inc., Massachusetts, 1989.

• Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, Nguyen Quoc, “Testing Computer Software”, Second Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1993

• Boris Beizer, “Software Testing Techniques”, Second Volume, Second Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1990