Software Testing and Quality Assurance

Contents

1. Quality Concept   

   Introduction

   1.1    Definition of Quality, QA, SQA     

   1.2    Quality Factors  

   1.3    Software Quality Metrices    

   1.4    Process Improvement    

2. Software quality assurance    

   Introduction

   2.1    Need for SQA     

   2.2    SQA Activities   

   2.3    Building Blocks of SQA 

   2.4    SQA Planning and Standards   

3. Software reliability    

   Introduction

   3.1    Reliability Measures   

   3.2    Reliability Models     

4. Verification and validation   

   Introduction

   4.1    Verification and Validation Planning     

   4.2    Software Inspections   

   4.3    Automated Static Analysis    

   4.4    Cleanroom Software Development     

5. Software testing fundamentals 

   Introduction

   5.1    Testing Objectives     

   5.2    How Test Information flows? 

   5.3    Testing life cycle     

   5.4    Test cases-what it is? test case designing     

6. Levels of testing 

   6.1    Unit Testing     

   6.2    Integration Testing    

   6.3    System Testing   

   6.4    Acceptance Testing     

   6.5    Static versus Dynamic Testing

   6.6    Manual versus Automatic Testing    

   6.7    Testers Workbench 17

   6.8    Seven Steps of Testing Process     

7. Different types of testing    

   Introduction

   7.1    Installation Testing   

   7.2    Usability Testing

   7.3    Regression Testing     

   7.4    Performance Testing    

   7.5    Security Testing 

8. Static and dynamic testing    

   Introduction

   8.1    Static Testing Techniques    

   8.2    Review Types     

   8.3    Review Meeting   

   8.4    Review reporting and record keeping, review guidelines and review checklist  

   8.5    Data Flow Analysis     

   8.6    Control Flow Analysis  

   8.7    Cyclomatic Analysis    

   8.8    Dynamic Testing – Need and Advantages    

9. Black box and white box testing     

   Introduction

   9.1    Functional Testing (Black Box)    

   9.2    Structural Testing (White Box)     

   9.3    Domain Testing  

   9.4    Non Functional testing Techniques  

   9.5    Validation Testing Activities

   9.6    Black Box Vs White Box 

10. Testing specialized systems and applications    

   Introduction

   10.1   Testing Object Oriented Software   

   10.2   Testing Web-based Applications     

   10.3   Computer Aided Software Testing (CAST)