CS 4320 SOFTWARE TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE (4)                    2005

Catalog Description:
  Concepts and issues in the testing and quality control of large software
  projects. Topics include white box, black box, unit, integration, and
  validation testing; quality assurance through planning, review, and 
  use of software metrics.
  Prerequisite: CS 3240

Course description:
 
  Life Cycle: 
    requirements, analysis, design, implementation, test
  
  QA Process/Test Plans
  
  White Box Test:
    cyclometric complexity, code coverage
 
  Black Box Test:
    equivalence partitioning, boundary-value analysis
   
  Unit/Integration/Validation/System/Stress/Regression Test
  Proof of Correctness
  Milestone Reviews/Code Walkthroughs
  Builds/Test Harnesses/Stubs/Drivers
  Automated Compilation
  Source Control
  Metrics, Standards, Documentation, Reporting
  Instrumentation, Debuggers
  Reverse Engineering/Reengineering

Texts:
  Lewis: Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement