IT2032 SOFTWARE TESTING L T P C
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UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Testing as an Engineering Activity – Role of Process in
Software Quality – Testing as a
Process – Basic Definitions – Software Testing Principles
– The Tester’s Role in a
Software Development Organization – Origins of Defects –
Defect Classes – The Defect
Repository and Test Design – Defect Examples –
Developer/Tester Support for
Developing a Defect Repository.
UNIT II TEST CASE DESIGN 9
Introduction to Testing Design Strategies – The Smarter
Tester – Test Case Design
Strategies – Using Black Box Approach to Test Case Design
Random Testing –
Requirements based testing – positive and negative testing
-–– Boundary Value
Analysis – decision tables - Equivalence Class
Partitioning state-based testing– causeeffect
graphing – error guessing - compatibility testing – user
documentation testing –
domain testing Using White–Box Approach to Test design –
Test Adequacy Criteria –
static testing vs. structural testing – code functional
testing - Coverage and Control Flow
Graphs – Covering Code Logic – Paths – Their Role in
White–box Based Test Design –
code complexity testing – Evaluating Test Adequacy Criteria.
UNIT III LEVELS OF TESTING 9
The Need for Levels of Testing – Unit Test – Unit Test
Planning –Designing the Unit
Tests. The Test Harness – Running the Unit tests and
Recording results – Integration
tests – Designing Integration Tests – Integration Test
Planning – scenario testing –
defect bash elimination -System Testing – types of system
testing - Acceptance testing –
performance testing - Regression Testing –
internationalization testing – ad-hoc testing -
Alpha – Beta Tests – testing OO systems – usability and
accessibility testing
UNIT IV TEST MANAGEMENT 9
People and organizational issues in testing –
organization structures for testing teams –
testing services - Test Planning – Test Plan Components –
Test Plan Attachments –
Locating Test Items – test management – test process -
Reporting Test Results – The
role of three groups in Test Planning and Policy
Development – Introducing the test
specialist – Skills needed by a test specialist –
Building a Testing Group.
UNIT V CONTROLLING AND MONITORING 9
Software test automation – skills needed for automation –
scope of automation – design
and architecture for automation – requirements for a test
tool – challenges in automation
- Test metrics and measurements –project, progress and
productivity metrics – Status
Meetings – Reports and Control Issues – Criteria for Test
Completion – SCM – Types of
reviews – Developing a review program – Components of
Review Plans– Reporting
Review Results. – evaluating software quality – defect
prevention – testing maturity
model
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