Software Quality Assurance and Testing prof. A. C. (Alex) Telea Course description

Overview of this document 1.For whom is this course 2.Contents 3.What you should know after 4.Assignment 5.Grading

For whom is this course Software engineers (or people training to become one) Interested in testing and maintenance What you should know before: Software (detailed) design experience Good in at least one (object-oriented) language Experience with small…midsize software projects What will you know after: how to efficiently design and apply a test suite how to measure testability, maintainability (and a few other software metrics)

Contents Module 1: What is test engineering? why do we need test engineering how to model (and measure) quality tests, bugs, errors, faults testing from an economical perspective Several modules (subjects) Mapping module-lecture not strictly 1-to-1

Module 2: Static testing techniques software reviews and inspections deskchecks and walkthroughs formal verification automated static analysis Contents (cont.) Module 3: Design and implementation practices architecture vs design design quality predictors metrics (size, complexity, fan-in/out, cohesion, …) how to interpret software metrics

Module 4: Structural (white box) testing test categories (ordinary vs numerical code) what to look for when testing code coverage metrics (statement, branch, condition, path, loop, function, call, …) testing strategies Contents (cont.) Module 5: Behavioral (black box) testing the need to reduce the # test cases equivalence partitioning boundary value analysis timing and coordination

Module 6: Additional testing strategies integration testing (drivers and stubs) stress testing system testing when to stop testing Contents (cont.) Module 7: Test Management testing styles (pragmatic, pioneer, analysis, facilitating) test planning testing models and standards (cost of poor quality, TMap, TPI, TMM)

Grading based on a practical assignment: You are given: a real-world software tool (binary, source code, docs, input data) You are asked to: perform black-box (end-user level) and white-box (developer-level) testing on it answer several specific questions on the testing and quality of the tool write a report justifying all decisions made and obtained results Assignment

Assignment (cont.) += What the software does: Image inpainting target imagescratch imageresult image Your task: apply what you learn in the course to this software system! test the software (design and apply tests) assess the quality of the software

Assignment (cont.) Way of working Analyze the given software as if you were a real developer/tester in a real company You can work in groups of max. two persons you can use “pair programming” techniques No lab sessions: software testing and quality assessment is not an “exercise”, but real individual work requiring time, patience, eye for detail Be present at lectures: many examples/details related to your project will be explained you can ask questions on your assignment!

Grading Based on your report just as done in a real company so your report should be detailed, complete, realistic Report to be handed in after course exact (strict) deadline will be communicated during lecture Where you find all needed information: website: slides, assignment details, software to work on, references book: A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design (Lee Copeland; Artech House, 2003) can find open-source versions (see books.google.com) myself: