Software Testing

Chapter

Contents

No. of Lectures

1

Introduction to Software Testing

1.1 Introduction, Nature of errors,

1.2 Testing Objectives

1.3 Testing principles

1.4 Testing fundamentals,

1.5 Software reviews, Formal Technical reviews,

1.6 Inspection and walkthrough

1.7 Testing Life Cycle

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2

Approaches to Testing –Testing Methods

2.1 White Box Testing and types of white box testing

2.2 Test Case Design

2.3 Black Box Testing and types of black box testing

2.4 Gray Box Testing

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3

Software Testing Strategies &Software metrics

3.1 Software Testing Process

3.2 Unit Testing

3.3 Integration- Top-down ,Bottom up

3.4 System Testing

3.5 Acceptance Testing (alpha, Beta testing)

3.6 Validation and Verification

3.7 Big Bang Approach

3.8 Sandwich approach

3.9 Performance Testing

3.10 Regression Testing

3.11 Smoke Testing

3.13 Load Testing

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4

Software metrics

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Basic Metrics –size-oriented metric, Function –oriented metric

4.3 Cyclometic Complexity Metrics

Examples on Cyclometic Complexity

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5

Testing for Specialized Environments

5.1 Testing GUI’s

5.2 Testing of Client/Server Architectures

5.3 Testing Documentation and Help Facilities

5.4 Testing for Real-Time Systems

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6

Testing Tools& Software Quality Assurance (Introduction)

6.1 JUnit, Apache JMeter, Win runner

6.2 Load runner, Rational Robot

6.3 Quality Concepts, Quality Movement, Background Issues, SQA activities

6.4 Formal approaches to SQA

6.5 Statistical Quality Assurance

6.6 Software Reliability

6.7 The ISO 9000 Quality Standards

6.8 SQA Plan

6.9 Six sigma

6.10 Informal Reviews

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