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Software Testing

INTRODUCTION


-:- Testing as an engineering activity
-:- Role of process in software quality
-:- Testing as a process
-:- Basic definitions in Software Testing
-:- Software testing principles
-:- The tester’s role in a software development organization
-:- Origin of Defects
-:- Defect classes, the defect repository and test design
-:- Defect Examples: The Coin Problem
-:- Developer/Tester Support for Developing a Defect Repository

TEST CASE DESIGN


-:- Introduction to Testing Design Strategies
-:- The Smart 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
-:- 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

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

TEST AMANAGEMENT


-:- People and organizational issues in testing
-:- Organization structures for testing teams
-:- 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 - Controlling and Monitoring

TEST AUTOMATION


-:- Measurements and milestones for controlling and monitoring
-:- Status meetings -Reports and control issues
-:- Criteria for test completion
-:- SCM
-:- Review program
-:- Types of Reviews
-:- Components of review plans
-:- Reporting review results