Software Quality Assurance and Testing

Learning Outcomes  

This course has six learning outcomes:

• CLO 1: Recognize software quality assurance and testing as an essential element in software development life cycle
• CLO 2: Describe the phases of software quality assurance and testing
• CLO 3: Develop test plans, identify test conditions and design test cases
• CLO 4: Apply a wide variety of testing techniques at various testing levels
• CLO 5: Compute various metrics from the testing data and interpret them to identify problems in software testing
• CLO 6: Adequately test a medium software project in a group setting

Assessment  

This course involves occasional assignments, activities and a semester-long project. The assignments and activities offers a chance for students to reinforce understanding of material from class. The project has small student groups testing an open-source software and applying techniques and tools learned in class to that software.

Final course grades will be based on the following.

Activity	Grade	Details
Assignments	5%	There will be 6 homework assignments. All assignments are indvidual. Homework must be submitted by the due date.
Activities	20%	There will be 10 activities. All activities are indvidual. Activities must be submitted by the due date. Activities are practical aspects of the course that ensure applying the theoretical aspects of the course.
Midterm	20%	There will be 1 Midterm. The Midterm will be on Week 8. The Midterm will cover the materials finished by Week 7.
Course Project	15%	Students will work in groups to complete the course project. We will discuss group sizes and possible projects in class early in the semester. The project is going to done on phases. Project phases reports must be submitted by the due date. The final submission should be a comprehsnice report that includes all phases. Project grade will be based on the work done and on the quality of the submitted reports: Phase One – Test Plan [5%] Phase Two - Test Cases [5%] Phase Three - Test Execution [5%]
Final Exam	40%	The Final Exam is a comprehensive exam covering the first 5 CLOs.

 

Tentative Schedule  

Chapter	Topic	Notes	Assignments/Activities/Templates
1	Introduction	Introduction	Why software testing? Error, Fault and Failure Verification and Validation When is enough testing? Assignment 1.1
2	Software Quality	Software Quality	Assignment 2.1
3	Testing throughout the SDLC	Testing throughout the SDLC	Assignment 3.1
4	Static Testing	Static Testing	Activity 4.1-SpotBugs Activity 4.1 SpotBugs CalendarManager Example Assignment 4.1
5	Test Management	Test Management	Detail Test Plan IEEE Standard 829-2008 Sample_Test_Plan TestPlanTemplate Activity 5.1-Test Plan and Specification Activity 5.1-Test Plan and Specification Golf_Tournament_Report_SRS GolfImpl TestPlan-CheckList TestPlan-Template
6	Unit Testing and Junit	Test Cases Unit Testing and JUnit	Introduction to JUnit JUnit1 Junit and Eclipse Activity 6.1-Unit Testing Activity 6.1 Unit Testing StringUtil Activity 6.2-JUnit and Coverage Testing Activity 6.2-JUnit and Coverage Testing CoffeeMaker_JUnit
7	Test Design Techniques	Test Design Techniques Structural Testing	Specification-Based Testing The category-partition method Decision Tables Structural Testing MC/DC coverage Black Box Test Data Generation Techniques Structural Testing Exercises MCDC Detailed Example Assignment 7.1 Assignment 7.2 Activity 7.1-Black Box Testing Activity 7.1 Black Box Testing WorkSchedule Activity 7.2-Equivalence class and boundary value Activity 7.2-Test equivalence class and boundary value hypertension Activity 7.3-White Box Testing Activity 7.3 White Box Testing BinarySearch Set Activity 7.4-Complexity analysis and visualization Activity 7.4 -Complexity analysis and visualization checkstyle-checkstyle-8.41 jEdit-master Billing-System-master Cobertura-master
8	Integration, System and Regression Testing	Integration Testing System Testing Regression Testing	Unit and System Tests: The different test levels What is integration testing? The Testing pyramid Assignment 8.1
9	Testing Metrics and Tools	Testing Metrics and Tools Code Coverage	Activity 9.1-Code Coverage Analysis Activity 9.1 - Code Coverage Analysis using EclEmma Activity9
10	Advanced Topics	Advanced Topics	Activity 10.1-Web Testing Activity 10.1-Web Testing calc-broken APPIUM Tutorial for Android

 

Course Resources  

Course Administration

• Announcements will be posted on this web page and LMS. Check the news section regularly for updates.
• We are using both this website and Moodle (LMS).

Textbook

There is no required textbook for this course. However, students who wish to read more about the topics that we discuss in class may consult the folowing textbooks:

• Software Testing: A Craftsman’s Approach, Fourth Edition Book by Paul C. Jorgensen .
• Software Testing: Concepts and Operations Book by Ali Mili and Fairouz Tchier .
• The Art of Software Testing 3rd Edition by Glenford J. Myers, Corey Sandler, Tom Badgett .
• Introduction to Software Testing by Paul Ammann and Jeff Offutt.
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundation Exam Wiki.

Sources

• There will be periodic homework assignments in Java. Instructions for installing Java and associated software can be found here.
• If you need to brush up on your Java skills and JUnit invest some time studying the following resources:
  • The Java Tutorial
  • Introduction to Programming Using Java -- An introduction to programming.
  • Junit -- The Junit Website.
  • Embracing JUnit 5 with Eclipse.
  • JUnit Tests: How To Write JUnit Test Cases With Examples.
  • How to use JUnit with NetBeans.
• Projects and homework will involve running tests on your code and applying cutting-edge tools on open-source projects. In both cases you will use Maven as a build system. Brief introductions to Maven can be found here and here.
• Readings may be assigned from free, publicly available articles that will be linked in the schedule section.

Project

This word file SE401_Project has all the details about the course project.
 

General Resources  

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to know and abide by PSU's policies on academic integrity. Academic integrity violations will be prosecuted aggressively. If you are not sure what constitutes an academic integrity violation, please ask.