Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

308716 (v.1) Software Engineering Testing 351

Area:

 Department of Computing

Credits:

 25.0

Contact Hours:

 3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

 1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

 1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

 8934 (v.8) Software Engineering 252
 

Syllabus:

 Presents an overview of quality management systems used in the software development industry, including ISO 9001:2000, CMM and CMMI. Safety proofs and formal specification, including proof by contradiction and mathematical specification. The Object Constraint Language and the testing of assertions. Unit, integration, and system testing including a regression testing. Test driven development and extreme programming. White and black box testing strategies including a detailed treatment of equivalence partitioning, cyclomatic complexity and boundary value analysis. Testing of distributed and transaction based systems. Testing approaches based on decision tables, graph theory and finite state machines. Fault seeding and statistical approaches to testing.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

 031305 Computer Engineering

Funding Cluster:

 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

 Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

 Grade/Mark

Availability
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