Software Testing SOFTWARE TESTING |Subject Code |: |06CS842/IS81 |IA Marks |: |25 | |No. of Lecture Hrs. / Week |: |04 |Exam Hours |: |03 | |Total No. of Lecture Hrs. |: |52 |Exam Marks |: |100 | PART – A UNIT – 1 BASICS OF SOFTWARE TESTING – 1: Human Errors and Testing; Software Quality; Requirements, Behavior and Correctness; Correctness versus Reliability; Testing and Debugging; Test Metrics. 6 Hours UNIT – 2
BASICS OF SOFTWARE TESTING – 2: Software and Hardware Testing; Testing and Verification; Defect Management; Execution History;Test-generation Strategies, Static Testing. Model-Based Testing and Model Checking; Control-Flow Graph; Types of Testing; The Saturation Effect. 6 Hours UNIT – 3 TEST GENERATION FROM REQUIREMENTS – 1: Introduction; The Test-Selection Problem; Equivalence Partitioning; Boundary Value Analysis; Category-Partition Method. 7 Hours UNIT – 4 TEST GENERATION FROM REQUIREMENTS – 2: Cause-Effect Graphing, Test Generation from Predicates. 7 Hours PART – B UNIT – 5
STRUCTURAL TESTING: Overview; Statement testing; Branch testing; Condition testing, Path testing; Procedure call testing; Comparing structural testing criteria; The infeasibility problem. 6 Hours UNIT – 6 DEPENDENCE, DATA FLOW MODELS, AND DATA FLOW TESTING: Definition-Use pairs; Data flow analysis; Classic analyses; From execution to conservative flow analysis; Data flow analysis with arrays and pointers; Inter-procedural analysis; Overview of data flow testing; Definition-Use associations; Data flow testing criteria; Data flow coverage with complex structures; The infeasibility problem. Hours UNIT – 7 TEST CASE SELECTION AND ADEQUACY, TEST EXECUTION: Overview; Test specification and cases; Adequacy criteria; Comparing criteria; Overview of test execution; From test case specification to test cases; Scaffolding; Generic versus specific scaffolding; Test oracles; Self-checks as oracles; Capture and replay. 6 Hours UNIT – 8 PROCESS: Test and analysis activities within a software process: The quality process; Planning and monitoring; Quality goals; Dependability properties; Analysis; Testing; Improving the process; Organizational factors.
Integration and component-based software testing: Overview; Integration testing strategies; Testing components and assemblies. System, Acceptance and Regression Testing: Overview; System testing; Acceptance testing; Usability; Regression testing; Regression test selection techniques; Test case prioritization and selective execution. 8 Hours TEXT BOOKS: 1. Foundations of Software Testing – Aditya P Mathur, Pearson Education, 2008. . Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles and Techniques – Mauro Pezze, Michal Young, John Wiley & Sons, 2008. REFERENCE BOOKS: 1. Software testing Principles and Practices – Gopalaswamy Ramesh, Srinivasan Desikan, 2nd Edition, Pearson, 2007. 2. Software Testing – Ron Patton, 2nd edition, Pearson Education, 2004. 3. The Craft of Software Testing – Brian Marrick, Pearson Education, 1995.
