Software Quality and Configuration - RoadMap

Course Title: Software Quality and Configuration
Course Code:
Pre-Requisites:
Credit Hours Theory: 2
Credit Hours Lab (If 1
Applicable):
Course Objectives: Introduction to Software Quality Assurance; Software Quality in
Business Context; QA, QC and QE; Product Quality and Process
Quality; Software Quality Measurement and Metrics; Personal
Software Process; Walkthroughs and Inspections; Software
Configuration Management; Quality; System Documentation;
Software Testing Techniques; Software Testing Strategies;
Automated Testing; Capability Maturity Model; CMM-Integration,
People-CMM; ISO; Six Sigma; Testing Tools, Trends and
Perspectives.
Learning Outcomes: After the successful completion of course, the students will be able to:
 Conduct effective and efficient inspections, and quality assurance
plans.
 Design and implement comprehensive test plans.
 Apply a testing technique in an effective and efficient manner.
 Perform manual and automated testing on actual projects.
Content Software Quality
 Software quality overview

 Basic concepts of Software Quality
 Importance of Software Quality
 Software Quality Types
o Quality of design
o Quality of conformance
 Quality assurance
 Quality control
 SQA Tasks, Goals, Attributes, and
Metrics
 Software Quality Models
o McCall’s Model
o ISO 9126 Model
o FURPS Model
o GQM Model
o CMMI
 Cost of Quality
o Prevention Cost
o Appraisal Cost
o Failure Cost
 Quality Cost Conformance Model
Review Techniques
 Cost Impact of Software Defects

 Defect Amplification and Removal
 Review Metrics and Their Use
o Analyzing Metrics
o Cost-Effectiveness of Reviews
 Reviews: A Formality Spectrum
 Informal Reviews
 Formal Technical Reviews
o The Review Meeting
o Review Reporting and Record
Keeping
o Review Guidelines
o Sample-Driven Reviews
Introduction to Testing
 Software Testing Overview

 Defect, Error, Bug, Failure and Fault
 Need for Software Testing
 Software Testing Lifecycle
 Principles of Testing
 Software Testing Activities
 Testing Limits
 Role of Tester
 SQA Team & Software Testing
Functional testing
 Equivalence class partitioning

 Boundary value testing
 Decision table testing
 Pairwise testing
 State transition testing
 Domain analysis testing
 Use case testing
Structural Testing
 Control flow testing

 Data flow testing
Abstraction levels of testing
 Unit testing
 Integration testing
 system testing
 acceptance testing
Automated software testing
 Benefits of Automation Testing

 Drawbacks of Automation Testing
 Factors to go for Automation Testing
 Factors to Choose Automation Tool
 Tools Available for Testing Software
Software Configuration Management
 Objective of SCM
 SCM Planning
 Project Baselines
 Software Configuration Items
 SCM Process
o Version/Variant/Revision/Release
o Version Control
o Change Control
o Configuration Audit
 Configuration Status Reporting
SOFTWARE QUALITY AND SECURITY
• Software Quality Concepts

• Software Configuration Management (CM)
• Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
• Software Quality and Agile Methods
o Automated and Manual Functional Testing
o Acceptance testing
o Mock objects
o User interface testing (HTTPUnit, Canoo)
o Performance testing
• Software Metrics and Analytics
• Quality and Process Standards and Guidelines
o ISO 9000
o SWEBOK
o ISO 15504
o SEI’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
o CMM Integration (CMMI)
• Software Security Engineering
Advanced Topics
• Software Process Improvement

• Quantifying Software Specifications Using Formal Methods
o Using Set Theory and Logic
o Verifying Requirements Mathematically
• Emerging Trends in Software Engineering
• Data Science for Software Engineers
• Measuring User Satisfaction
• Software Engineering Ethics
Recommended Text Books:  Software Quality Assurance From theory to
implementation, By Daniel Galin, 1st Edition , Pearson, 2003
 Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach By
Roger S. Pressman and Bruce Maxim, McGraw-Hill
Higher International; ISBN-10: 1259872971; ISBN-13:
Reference Books: 978-1259872976, 9th Edition (09/19)
 Site Reliability Engineering, by Niall Murphy, Betsy
Beyer, Chris Jones, and Jennifer Petoff O’Reilly Media;
ISBN-10: 149192912X, ISBN-13: 978-1491929124 (04/16)
Attendance is mandatory. Every class is important. All deadlines are
hard. Under normal circumstances late work will not be accepted.
Students are required to take all the tests. No make-up tests will be
given under normal circumstances. There is 0 tolerance for
General Instructions for plagiarism. Any form of cheating on exams/assignments/quizzes is
students: subject to serious penalty.
Attendance
75% attendance is mandatory. Latecomers will be marked as
absent.
Evaluation Criteria
Assignments/projects 20%
Quizzes 10%
Mid-Term 20%
Final 50%
CONTRIBUTION OF COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) TO

PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES (PLOs)
BS Software Engineering Data Structures and Algorithms

No Program Learning Course Learning Outcomes
Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Engineering Knowledge 
2 Problem analysis 
3 Design/Development of 
solutions
4 Investigation
5 Modern tool usage
6 Engineer and society
7 Environment and
sustainability
8 Ethics
9 Individual and Team work
10 Communication
11 Project Management
12 Lifelong learning

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Course Title: Software Quality and Configuration

 Software quality overview

 Cost Impact of Software Defects

 Software Testing Overview

 Equivalence class partitioning

 Control flow testing

Abstraction levels of testing

Automated software testing

 Benefits of Automation Testing

SOFTWARE QUALITY AND SECURITY

• Software Quality Concepts

• Software Process Improvement

CONTRIBUTION OF COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) TO

BS Software Engineering Data Structures and Algorithms

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