Software Testing & Auditing

Unit 1

TESTING BASICS 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 2

TEST CASE DESIGN Introduction to testing design strategies - The smarter tester - Test case design strategies - Using black box approach to test case design - Random testing - Equivalence class partitioning - Boundary value analysis - Other black box test design approaches - Black box testing and COTS - Using white box approach to test design - Test adequacy criteria - Coverage and control flow graphs - Covering code logic - Paths - Their role in white box based test design - Additional white box test design approaches - Evaluating test adequacy criteria.

Unit 3

LEVELS OF TESTING The need for levels of testing - Unit test - Unit test planning - Designing the unit tests - The class as a testable unit - The test harness - Running the unit tests and recording results - Integration tests - Designing integration tests - Integration test planning - System test - The different types - Regression testing - Alpha, beta and acceptance tests.

Unit 4

TEST MANAGEMENT -CONTROLLING AND MONITORING Basic concepts - Testing, debugging goals, policies - Test planning - Test plan components - Test plan attachments - Locating test items - Reporting test results - The role of three groups in test planning and policy development - Process and the engineering disciplines - Introducing the test specialist - Skills needed by a test specialist - Building a testing group. Defining terms - Measurements and milestones for controlling and monitoring - 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.

Unit 5

AUDITING Software audit review, software audits Vs software peer reviews and software management reviews. Objectives and participants Initiator, Lead Auditor, Recorder, Auditors, Audited Organization.