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Faculty of Engineering Savitribai Phule Pune University

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Fourth Year of Computer Engineering (2019 Course)
Elective IV
410245 (D): Software Testing and Quality Assurance
Teaching Scheme: Examination Scheme:
Credit
TH: 03 Hours/Week In-Sem (Paper): 30 Marks
03
End-Sem (Paper): 70 Marks
Prerequisite Courses: Software Engineering (210253), Software Project Management(310245(D))
Companion Course: Lab Practice IV
Course Objectives:
• Introduce basic concepts of software testing.
• Understand the best way to increase the effectiveness, test coverage, and
execution speed in software testing.
• Understand white box, block box, object oriented, web based and cloud testing.
• Understand the importance of software quality and assurance software systems
development.
• Know in details automation testing and tools used for automation testing.
• To learn and understand the combination of practices and tools that are designed to
help QA professionals test more efficiently.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, student will be able to–
CO1: Describe fundamental concepts in software testing such as manual testing, automation
testing and software quality assurance.
CO2: Design and Develop project test plan, design test cases, test data, and conduct test
operations.
CO3: Apply recent automation tool for various software testing for testing software.
CO4: Apply different approaches of quality management, assurance, and quality standard to
software system.
CO5: Apply and analyze effectiveness Software Quality Tools.
CO6: Apply tools necessary for efficient testing framework.
Course Contents
Unit I Introduction to Software Testing 07 Hours
Introduction: historical perspective, Definition, Core Components, Customers suppliers and process,
Objectives of Testing, Testing and Debugging, Need of Testing, Quality Assurance and Testing, Why
Software has Errors, Defects and Failures and its Causes and Effects, Total Quality Management(TQM),
Quality practices of TQM, Quality Management through- Statistical process Control, Cultural Changes,
Continual Improvement cycle, Benchmarking and metrics, Problem Solving Techniques and Software Tools.
Software Quality, Constraints of Software product Quality assessment, Quality and Productivity
Relationship, Requirements of Product, Software Development Process, Types of Products, Software
Development Lifecycle Models, Software Quality Management, Processes related to Software Quality,
Quality Management System’s Structure, Pillars of Quality Management System, Important aspects of
quality management.
#Exemplar/Case Studies 1. Offshore delivery model for an Airline Company.
2. SAP test automation CoE for Financial Service Provider.
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*Mapping of Course CO1
Outcomes for Unit I
Unit II Test Planning and Quality Management 07 Hours
Test Planning –Artifacts, Strategy, Test Organization –Test Manager & Tester Role, Test
plan purpose & contents, Test Strategy and Approach, Test cases & Test Data, Test
Entry-Exit criteria, Test Execution Schedule, Use case Testing, Scenario Testing, Test Monitoring
& Control- Test Metrics –Test Case Productivity, Test case Coverage, Defect Acceptance
& Rejection, Test Efficiency, Efforts and Schedule Variance, Test Efforts biasing Factors,
Test Report & configuration Management, Quality Assurance Process, Documentation Risk
& Issues. Software Quality, Quality Management Importance, Quality Best practices.
#Exemplar/CaseStudies 1. Online Recommendation System
2. Quality Engineering services for Medical Devices company
| CaseStudy (cigniti.com)
*Mapping of Course CO2
Outcomes for Unit II
Unit III Test Case Design Techniques 07 Hours
Software Testing Methodologies: White Box Testing, Black Box Testing, Grey Box Testing. Test
Case Design Techniques: Static Techniques: Informal Reviews, Walkthroughs, Technical Reviews,
Inspection. Dynamic Techniques: Structural Techniques: Statement Coverage Testing, Branch
Coverage Testing, Path Coverage Testing, Conditional Coverage Testing, Loop Coverage Testing
Black Box Techniques: Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence Class Partition, State Transition
Technique, Cause Effective Graph, Decision Table, Use Case Testing, Experienced Based
Techniques: Error guessing, Exploratory testing
Levels of Testing: Functional Testing: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User
Acceptance Testing, Sanity/Smoke Testing, Regression Test, Retest. Non-Functional Testing:
Performance Testing, Memory Test, Scalability Testing, Compatibility Testing, Security Testing,
Cookies Testing, Session Testing, Recovery Testing, Installation Testing, Adhoc Testing, Risk
Based Testing, I18N Testing, L1ON Testing, Compliance Testing.
Link:https://www.besanttechnologies.com/training-courses/software-testing-training/manual-
testing-training-institute-in-chennai
#Exemplar/Case Studies 1. Case Study: Manual Testing (Online Marketing
SoftwarePlatform)
Link: https://www.360logica.com/blog/case-study-
manual-testing-online-marketing-software-
platform/
2. Case Study: Decision Table Testing (transferring money
online to an account which is already added and
approved.)
*Mapping of Course CO3
Outcomes for Unit III
Unit IV Software Quality Assurance and Quality Control 07 Hours
Software Quality Assurance: Introduction, Constraints of Software Product Quality Assessment,
Quality and Productivity Relationship, Requirements of a Product, Characteristics of Software,
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Software Development Process, Types of Products, Schemes of Criticality Definitions, Software
Quality Management, Why Software Has Defects? Processes Related to Software Quality, Quality
Management System Structure, Pillars of Quality Management System, Important Aspects
ofQualityManagement.
Software Quality Control: Software quality models, Quality measurement and metrics, Quality
plan, implementation and documentation, Quality tools including CASE tools, Quality control and
reliability of quality process, Quality management system models, Complexity metrics and
Customer Satisfaction, International quality standards – ISO, CMM
#Exemplar/Case Studies 1. Case Study #1 – Android Application Acceptance Test Suite
2. Case Study #2 – API Acceptance Test Suite
Link for above case studies - Software Quality Assurance Case
Studies - Beta Breakers
*Mapping of Course CO4
Outcomes for Unit IV
Unit V Automation Testing Tools / Performance Testing Tools 07 Hours
Automation Testing: What is automation testing, Automated Testing Process, Automation
Frameworks, Benefits of automation testing, how to choose automation testing tools.
Selenium Automation Tools: Selenium’s Tool Suite- Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web
driver, Selenium Grid. Automation Tools: SoapUI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tosca,
Appium.
Performance Testing : What is Performance Testing what is use of it? Tools used for performance
testing - Apache Jmeter.
#Exemplar/Case Studies 1. Case Study: Cucumber open-source automation
testingframework.
2. Case Study: (PDF) Automated Software Testing—A Case
Study(researchgate.net)
*Mapping of Course CO5
Outcomes for Unit V
Unit VI Testing Framework 07 Hours
Testing Framework: Software Quality, Software Quality Dilemma, Achieving Software Quality,
Software Quality Assurance Elements of SQA, SQA Tasks, Goals and Metrics, Formal Approaches
to SQA, Statistical Software Quality Assurance, Six Sigma for Software Engineering, ISO 9000
Quality Standards, SQA Plan, Total Quality Management, Product Quality Metrics, In process
Quality Metrics, Software maintenance, Ishikawa's 7 basic tools, Flow Chart, Checklists, Pareto
diagrams, Histogram, Run Charts, Scatter diagrams, Control chart, Cause Effect diagram. Defect
Removal Effectiveness and Process.
#Exemplar/Case Studies 1. Case study: Software Quality In
AcademicCurriculum.
2. Case study: Evaluation of an Automated Testing
Framework: ACase Study (scielo.sa.cr)
*Mapping of Course CO6
Outcomes for Unit VI
Learning Resources

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