308716 (v.1) Software Engineering Testing 351

Area:	Department of Computing
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0

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Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	8934 (v.8) Software Engineering 252

Syllabus:	This unit 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.

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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
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308716 (v.1) Software Engineering Testing 351

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