IT2032 SOFTWARE TESTING Syllabus

IT2032   SOFTWARE TESTING                                                            L T P C              
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UNIT I        INTRODUCTION                                                                                             9
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 II        TEST CASE DESIGN                                                                                   9
Introduction  to  Testing  Design  Strategies  –  The  Smarter  Tester  –  Test  Case  Design
Strategies  –  Using  Black  Box  Approach  to  Test  Case  Design  Random  Testing  –
Requirements  based  testing  –  positive  and  negative  testing  -––  Boundary  Value
Analysis – decision  tables  - Equivalence Class Partitioning state-based  testing– cause-
effect graphing – error guessing  -  compatibility  testing – user documentation  testing –
domain  testing Using White–Box Approach  to Test design – Test Adequacy Criteria –
static testing vs. structural testing – code functional testing - Coverage and Control Flow
Graphs – Covering Code Logic – Paths – Their Role in White–box Based Test Design –
code complexity testing – Evaluating Test Adequacy Criteria.

UNIT III  LEVELS OF TESTING                                                                               9
The Need  for Levels of Testing  – Unit Test – Unit Test Planning  –Designing  the Unit
Tests. The Test Harness – Running  the Unit  tests and Recording  results –  Integration
tests  –  Designing  Integration  Tests  –  Integration  Test  Planning  –  scenario  testing  –
defect bash elimination -System Testing – types of system testing - Acceptance testing –
performance testing - Regression Testing – internationalization testing – ad-hoc testing -
Alpha – Beta Tests – testing OO systems – usability and accessibility testing

UNIT IV  TEST MANAGEMENT                                                                              9
People and organizational issues in testing – organization structures for testing teams –
testing  services  -   Test Planning – Test Plan Components – Test Plan Attachments –
Locating Test  Items –  test management –  test process  - Reporting Test Results – The

role  of  three  groups  in  Test  Planning  and  Policy Development  –  Introducing  the  test 
specialist – Skills needed by a test specialist – Building a Testing Group.

UNIT V             CONTROLLING AND MONITORING                                                     9
Software test automation – skills needed for automation – scope of automation – design
and architecture for automation – requirements for a test tool – challenges in automation
- Test metrics and measurements –project, progress and productivity metrics – 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.  –  evaluating  software  quality  –  defect  prevention  –  testing  maturity
model

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1.  Srinivasan Desikan and Gopalaswamy Ramesh, “ Software Testing – Principles and
Practices”, Pearson education, 2006.
2.   Aditya P.Mathur, “Foundations of Software Testing”, Pearson Education,2008.

REFERENCES:
1.    Boris Beizer, “Software Testing Techniques”, Second Edition,Dreamtech, 2003
2.   Elfriede  Dustin,  “Effective  Software  Testing”,  First  Edition,  Pearson  Education,      
2003.
3.  Renu  Rajani,  Pradeep  Oak,  “Software  Testing  –  Effective  Methods,  Tools  and
Techniques”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2004.