IT6004 Software Testing Syllabus Semester VII Elective IT BTECH Anna University-Regulation-2013

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IT6004                                                 SOFTWARE TESTING                                                 L  T P C
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OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:

• Expose the criteria for test cases.
• Learn the design of test cases.
• Be familiar with test management and test automation techniques.
• Be exposed to test metrics and measurements.

UNIT I             INTRODUCTION                                                                                                             9
Testing as an Engineering Activity – Testing as a Process – Testing axioms – Basic  definitions – Software Testing Principles – The Tester?s Role in a Software Development Organization – Origins of Defects – Cost of defects – Defect Classes – The Defect Repository and Test Design – Defect Examples – Developer/Tester Support of Developing a Defect Repository – Defect Prevention strategies.

UNIT II           TEST CASE DESIGN                                                                                                      9
Test case Design Strategies – Using Black Bod Approach to Test Case Design – Random Testing – Requirements based testing – Boundary Value Analysis – Equivalence Class Partitioning – State- based testing – Cause-effect graphing – 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 – code complexity testing – Evaluating Test Adequacy Criteria.

UNIT III           LEVELS OF TESTING                                                                                                    9
The need for Levers 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 – Acceptance testing – Performance testing – Regression Testing – Internationalization testing – Ad- hoc testing – Alpha, Beta Tests – Testing OO systems – Usability and Accessibility testing – Configuration testing – Compatibility testing – Testing the documentation – Website testing.

UNIT IV         TEST AMANAGEMENT                                                                                                   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        TEST AUTOMATION                                                                                                         9
Software test automation – skill 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.


OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course the students will be able to

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

• Design test cases suitable for a software development for different domains.
• Identify suitable tests to be carried out.
• Prepare test planning based on the document.
• Document test plans and test cases designed.
• Use of automatic testing  tools.
• Develop and validate a test plan.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Srinivasan Desikan  and  Gopalaswamy  Ramesh,  “Software  Testing   –  Principles  and

Practices”, Pearson Education, 2006.

2. Ron Patton, “ Software Testing”, Second Edition, Sams Publishing, Pearson Education, 2007.

REFERENCES:

1. Ilene Burnstein, “ Practical Software Testing”, Springer International Edition, 2003.
2. Edward Kit,” Software Testing in the Real World – Improving the Process”, Pearson Education,

1995.

3. Boris Beizer,” Software Testing Techniques” – 2nd Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York,

1990.

4. Aditya  P.   Mathur,   “Foundations   of   Software   Testing   _   Fundamental   Algorithms   and

Techniques”, Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., Pearson Education, 2008.