This lecture is about the detail definition of software quality and quality assurance. Provide details about software tesing and its types. Clear the basic concepts of software quality and software testing.
Quality, quality concepts
Software Quality Assurance
Software Reviews
Formal Technical Reviews
SQA Group Plan
ISO 9000, 9001
Example
Internal and external attributes
The document discusses software quality assurance. It defines SQA as using planned and systematic methods to evaluate software quality, standards, processes, and procedures. This ensures development follows standards and procedures through continuous monitoring, product evaluation, and audits. SQA activities include product evaluation and monitoring to ensure adherence to development plans, as well as product audits to thoroughly review products, processes, and documentation against established standards. Software reviews are used to uncover errors and defects during development in order to "purify" software requirements, design, code, and testing data before release.
The document discusses software quality assurance (SQA) and defines key terms related to quality. It describes SQA as encompassing quality management, software engineering processes, formal reviews, testing strategies, documentation control, and compliance with standards. Specific SQA activities mentioned include developing an SQA plan, participating in process development, auditing work products, and ensuring deviations are addressed. The document also discusses software reviews, inspections, reliability, and the reliability specification process.
The document discusses software quality assurance (SQA) and quality control (QC). It defines SQA as a planned set of activities to evaluate the development process and ensure software meets requirements. QC focuses on reviews, inspections, and tests to find and remove defects before product release. Formal technical reviews (FTRs) are important QC activities that involve evaluation of work products by other engineers to uncover errors early. The goal is to improve quality and catch the majority of defects in a cost-effective manner.
In this technique, test cases are developed using the use cases of the system. A use case encompass the various actors and their interactions with the system. Use cases cover the complete transactions from start to finish. These test cases depict the actual use of software by the end user.
This document provides an overview of software maintenance. It discusses that software maintenance is an important phase of the software life cycle that accounts for 40-70% of total costs. Maintenance includes error correction, enhancements, deletions of obsolete capabilities, and optimizations. The document categorizes maintenance into corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventive types. It also discusses the need for maintenance to adapt to changing user requirements and environments. The document describes approaches to software maintenance including program understanding, generating maintenance proposals, accounting for ripple effects, and modified program testing. It discusses challenges like lack of documentation and high staff turnover. The document also introduces concepts of reengineering and reverse engineering to make legacy systems more maintainable.
The document discusses checkpoints in the software project management process. It describes three types of joint management reviews: major milestones, minor milestones, and status assessments. Major milestones provide visibility on system-wide issues and verify phase aims. Minor milestones review iteration content and authorize continued work. Status assessments provide frequent management insight. Different stakeholders have different concerns at checkpoints.
This document discusses software quality assurance. It defines software quality and describes two types - quality of design and quality of conformance. It discusses quality concepts at the organizational, project, and process levels. It also describes software reviews, their types and purposes. Software quality assurance aims to establish organizational procedures and standards to achieve high quality software. Key SQA activities include applying technical methods, reviews, testing, enforcing standards and measurement.
Quality, quality concepts
Software Quality Assurance
Software Reviews
Formal Technical Reviews
SQA Group Plan
ISO 9000, 9001
Example
Internal and external attributes
The document discusses software quality assurance. It defines SQA as using planned and systematic methods to evaluate software quality, standards, processes, and procedures. This ensures development follows standards and procedures through continuous monitoring, product evaluation, and audits. SQA activities include product evaluation and monitoring to ensure adherence to development plans, as well as product audits to thoroughly review products, processes, and documentation against established standards. Software reviews are used to uncover errors and defects during development in order to "purify" software requirements, design, code, and testing data before release.
The document discusses software quality assurance (SQA) and defines key terms related to quality. It describes SQA as encompassing quality management, software engineering processes, formal reviews, testing strategies, documentation control, and compliance with standards. Specific SQA activities mentioned include developing an SQA plan, participating in process development, auditing work products, and ensuring deviations are addressed. The document also discusses software reviews, inspections, reliability, and the reliability specification process.
The document discusses software quality assurance (SQA) and quality control (QC). It defines SQA as a planned set of activities to evaluate the development process and ensure software meets requirements. QC focuses on reviews, inspections, and tests to find and remove defects before product release. Formal technical reviews (FTRs) are important QC activities that involve evaluation of work products by other engineers to uncover errors early. The goal is to improve quality and catch the majority of defects in a cost-effective manner.
In this technique, test cases are developed using the use cases of the system. A use case encompass the various actors and their interactions with the system. Use cases cover the complete transactions from start to finish. These test cases depict the actual use of software by the end user.
This document provides an overview of software maintenance. It discusses that software maintenance is an important phase of the software life cycle that accounts for 40-70% of total costs. Maintenance includes error correction, enhancements, deletions of obsolete capabilities, and optimizations. The document categorizes maintenance into corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventive types. It also discusses the need for maintenance to adapt to changing user requirements and environments. The document describes approaches to software maintenance including program understanding, generating maintenance proposals, accounting for ripple effects, and modified program testing. It discusses challenges like lack of documentation and high staff turnover. The document also introduces concepts of reengineering and reverse engineering to make legacy systems more maintainable.
The document discusses checkpoints in the software project management process. It describes three types of joint management reviews: major milestones, minor milestones, and status assessments. Major milestones provide visibility on system-wide issues and verify phase aims. Minor milestones review iteration content and authorize continued work. Status assessments provide frequent management insight. Different stakeholders have different concerns at checkpoints.
This document discusses software quality assurance. It defines software quality and describes two types - quality of design and quality of conformance. It discusses quality concepts at the organizational, project, and process levels. It also describes software reviews, their types and purposes. Software quality assurance aims to establish organizational procedures and standards to achieve high quality software. Key SQA activities include applying technical methods, reviews, testing, enforcing standards and measurement.
The quality of software systems may be expressed as a collection of Software Quality Attributes. When the system requirements are defined, it is essential also to define what is expected regarding these quality attributes, since these expectations will guide the planning of the system architecture and design.
Software quality attributes may be classified into two main categories: static and dynamic. Static quality attributes are the ones that reflect the system’s structure and organization. Examples of static attributes are coupling, cohesion, complexity, maintainability and extensibility. Dynamic attributes are the ones that reflect the behavior of the system during its execution. Examples of dynamic attributes are memory usage, latency, throughput, scalability, robustness and fault-tolerance.
Following the definitions of expectations regarding the quality attributes, it is essential to devise ways to measure them and verify that the implemented system satisfies the requirements. Some static attributes may be measured through static code analysis tools, while others require effective design and code reviews. The measuring and verification of dynamic attributes requires the usage of special non-functional testing tools such as profilers and simulators.
In this talk I will discuss the main Software Quality attributes, both static and dynamic, examples of requirements, and practical guidelines on how to measure and verify these attributes.
Integration testing verifies the interfaces between software modules. It has two categories: bottom-up integration starts with unit testing, then subsystem testing, and finally system testing; top-down integration starts with the main routine and tests subroutines in order, using stubs. Automated tools can help with integration testing, such as module drivers, test data generators, environment simulators, and library management systems.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and definitions. It discusses key topics such as software quality, testing methods like static and dynamic testing, testing levels from unit to acceptance testing, and testing types including functional, non-functional, regression and security testing. The document is intended as an introduction to software testing principles and terminology.
This document discusses software quality assurance (SQA). It defines SQA as a planned set of activities to provide confidence that software meets requirements and specifications. The document outlines important software quality factors like correctness, reliability, and maintainability. It describes SQA objectives in development and maintenance. Key principles of SQA involve understanding the development process, requirements, and how to measure conformance. Typical SQA activities include validation, verification, defect prevention and detection, and metrics. SQA can occur at different levels like testing, validation, and certification.
Software testing is an important phase of the software development process that evaluates the functionality and quality of a software application. It involves executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Some key points:
- Software testing is needed to identify defects, ensure customer satisfaction, and deliver high quality products with lower maintenance costs.
- It is important for different stakeholders like developers, testers, managers, and end users to work together throughout the testing process.
- There are various types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and different methodologies like manual and automated testing. Proper documentation is also important.
- Testing helps improve the overall quality of software but can never prove that there
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
Black box testing is a software testing technique where the internal structure and implementation of the system is not known. It focuses on validating the functionality of the system based on requirements and specifications. Some key techniques of black box testing include equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, and error guessing. Equivalence partitioning divides test cases into equivalence classes based on expected behavior. Boundary value analysis tests values at the boundaries of equivalence classes. Error guessing involves creating test cases based on intuition about potential errors. Black box testing is applied at various levels including unit, integration, system, and non-functional testing.
The document discusses software estimation and project planning. It covers estimating project cost and effort through decomposition techniques and empirical estimation models. Specifically, it discusses:
1) Decomposition techniques involve breaking down a project into functions and tasks to estimate individually, such as estimating lines of code or function points for each piece.
2) Empirical estimation models use historical data from past projects to generate estimates.
3) Key factors that affect estimation accuracy include properly estimating product size, translating size to effort/time/cost, and accounting for team abilities and requirements stability.
The document discusses the key characteristics of software quality assurance (SQA), including the high complexity of software, limited opportunities to detect defects, and need for teamwork and coordination. It defines important SQA terms like software quality, errors, faults, and failures. The document outlines nine common causes of software errors and provides definitions for SQA and its objectives to systematically ensure software meets requirements and is developed within schedule and budget.
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Testing is the process of identifying bugs and ensuring software meets requirements. It involves executing programs under different conditions to check specification, functionality, and performance. The objectives of testing are to uncover errors, demonstrate requirements are met, and validate quality with minimal cost. Testing follows a life cycle including planning, design, execution, and reporting. Different methodologies like black box and white box testing are used at various levels from unit to system. The overall goal is to perform effective testing to deliver high quality software.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and processes. It discusses the importance of testing in the software development lifecycle and defines key terms like errors, bugs, faults, and failures. It also describes different types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. Finally, it covers quality assurance and quality control processes and how bugs are managed throughout their lifecycle.
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A strategic approach to testing
Test strategies for conventional software
Test strategies for object-oriented software
Validation testing
System testing
The art of debugging
This document discusses software quality assurance. It defines software as computer programs, procedures, and documentation related to operating a computer system. Software quality is defined as meeting requirements and user needs/expectations. Quality factors include correctness, reliability, efficiency, integrity, usability, maintainability, flexibility, testability, portability, reusability, and interoperability. Software quality assurance is a planned set of actions to provide confidence that software development/maintenance conforms to requirements and schedules/budgets. The objectives of SQA are to assure acceptable confidence in conforming to functional/managerial requirements during development and maintenance. Three principles of QA are to know what is being done, know what should be done, and know how to
Verification ensures software meets specifications, while validation ensures it meets user needs. Both establish software fitness for purpose. Verification includes static techniques like inspections and formal methods to check conformance pre-implementation. Validation uses dynamic testing post-implementation. Techniques include defect testing to find inconsistencies, and validation testing to ensure requirements fulfillment. Careful planning via test plans is needed to effectively verify and validate cost-efficiently. The Cleanroom methodology applies formal specifications and inspections statically to develop defect-free software incrementally.
The document discusses verification and validation (V&V) in software engineering. It defines verification as ensuring a product is built correctly, and validation as ensuring the right product is built. V&V aims to discover defects and assess if a system is usable. Static and dynamic verification methods are covered, including inspections, testing, and automated analysis. The document outlines V&V goals, the debugging process, V-model development, test planning, and inspection techniques.
The document discusses various topics related to software quality assurance including:
1) It defines key terms like correctness, reliability, testing, failure, error, fault, debugging, verification, and validation.
2) It describes the differences between quality assurance (focusing on processes) and quality control (focusing on products), and lists some common quality assurance/control activities like testing, inspections, and reviews.
3) It provides an overview of a software development lifecycle including requirements, planning, design, coding, testing phases.
Software quality refers to how well a software product or service meets requirements and expectations. It is subjective as it depends on the perspective of the customer. Common aspects of quality include the software being bug-free, delivered on time and on budget, meeting requirements, and being maintainable. True software quality can only be determined by measuring how well the software serves its intended purpose from the viewpoint of all stakeholders.
This document provides an introduction to quality assurance in hospital management. It outlines four objectives: 1) defining quality, quality assurance, and total quality management; 2) explaining the core principles of total quality; 3) describing the competitive total quality infrastructure, practices, and tools; and 4) discussing the impact of quality on profitability. Key points include defining quality as meeting customer expectations, explaining that quality assurance ensures appropriate quality goods and services, and noting that total quality focuses on customer satisfaction and cost reduction through a systems approach.
The quality of software systems may be expressed as a collection of Software Quality Attributes. When the system requirements are defined, it is essential also to define what is expected regarding these quality attributes, since these expectations will guide the planning of the system architecture and design.
Software quality attributes may be classified into two main categories: static and dynamic. Static quality attributes are the ones that reflect the system’s structure and organization. Examples of static attributes are coupling, cohesion, complexity, maintainability and extensibility. Dynamic attributes are the ones that reflect the behavior of the system during its execution. Examples of dynamic attributes are memory usage, latency, throughput, scalability, robustness and fault-tolerance.
Following the definitions of expectations regarding the quality attributes, it is essential to devise ways to measure them and verify that the implemented system satisfies the requirements. Some static attributes may be measured through static code analysis tools, while others require effective design and code reviews. The measuring and verification of dynamic attributes requires the usage of special non-functional testing tools such as profilers and simulators.
In this talk I will discuss the main Software Quality attributes, both static and dynamic, examples of requirements, and practical guidelines on how to measure and verify these attributes.
Integration testing verifies the interfaces between software modules. It has two categories: bottom-up integration starts with unit testing, then subsystem testing, and finally system testing; top-down integration starts with the main routine and tests subroutines in order, using stubs. Automated tools can help with integration testing, such as module drivers, test data generators, environment simulators, and library management systems.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and definitions. It discusses key topics such as software quality, testing methods like static and dynamic testing, testing levels from unit to acceptance testing, and testing types including functional, non-functional, regression and security testing. The document is intended as an introduction to software testing principles and terminology.
This document discusses software quality assurance (SQA). It defines SQA as a planned set of activities to provide confidence that software meets requirements and specifications. The document outlines important software quality factors like correctness, reliability, and maintainability. It describes SQA objectives in development and maintenance. Key principles of SQA involve understanding the development process, requirements, and how to measure conformance. Typical SQA activities include validation, verification, defect prevention and detection, and metrics. SQA can occur at different levels like testing, validation, and certification.
Software testing is an important phase of the software development process that evaluates the functionality and quality of a software application. It involves executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Some key points:
- Software testing is needed to identify defects, ensure customer satisfaction, and deliver high quality products with lower maintenance costs.
- It is important for different stakeholders like developers, testers, managers, and end users to work together throughout the testing process.
- There are various types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and different methodologies like manual and automated testing. Proper documentation is also important.
- Testing helps improve the overall quality of software but can never prove that there
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
Black box testing is a software testing technique where the internal structure and implementation of the system is not known. It focuses on validating the functionality of the system based on requirements and specifications. Some key techniques of black box testing include equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, and error guessing. Equivalence partitioning divides test cases into equivalence classes based on expected behavior. Boundary value analysis tests values at the boundaries of equivalence classes. Error guessing involves creating test cases based on intuition about potential errors. Black box testing is applied at various levels including unit, integration, system, and non-functional testing.
The document discusses software estimation and project planning. It covers estimating project cost and effort through decomposition techniques and empirical estimation models. Specifically, it discusses:
1) Decomposition techniques involve breaking down a project into functions and tasks to estimate individually, such as estimating lines of code or function points for each piece.
2) Empirical estimation models use historical data from past projects to generate estimates.
3) Key factors that affect estimation accuracy include properly estimating product size, translating size to effort/time/cost, and accounting for team abilities and requirements stability.
The document discusses the key characteristics of software quality assurance (SQA), including the high complexity of software, limited opportunities to detect defects, and need for teamwork and coordination. It defines important SQA terms like software quality, errors, faults, and failures. The document outlines nine common causes of software errors and provides definitions for SQA and its objectives to systematically ensure software meets requirements and is developed within schedule and budget.
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Testing is the process of identifying bugs and ensuring software meets requirements. It involves executing programs under different conditions to check specification, functionality, and performance. The objectives of testing are to uncover errors, demonstrate requirements are met, and validate quality with minimal cost. Testing follows a life cycle including planning, design, execution, and reporting. Different methodologies like black box and white box testing are used at various levels from unit to system. The overall goal is to perform effective testing to deliver high quality software.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and processes. It discusses the importance of testing in the software development lifecycle and defines key terms like errors, bugs, faults, and failures. It also describes different types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. Finally, it covers quality assurance and quality control processes and how bugs are managed throughout their lifecycle.
This ppt covers the following
A strategic approach to testing
Test strategies for conventional software
Test strategies for object-oriented software
Validation testing
System testing
The art of debugging
This document discusses software quality assurance. It defines software as computer programs, procedures, and documentation related to operating a computer system. Software quality is defined as meeting requirements and user needs/expectations. Quality factors include correctness, reliability, efficiency, integrity, usability, maintainability, flexibility, testability, portability, reusability, and interoperability. Software quality assurance is a planned set of actions to provide confidence that software development/maintenance conforms to requirements and schedules/budgets. The objectives of SQA are to assure acceptable confidence in conforming to functional/managerial requirements during development and maintenance. Three principles of QA are to know what is being done, know what should be done, and know how to
Verification ensures software meets specifications, while validation ensures it meets user needs. Both establish software fitness for purpose. Verification includes static techniques like inspections and formal methods to check conformance pre-implementation. Validation uses dynamic testing post-implementation. Techniques include defect testing to find inconsistencies, and validation testing to ensure requirements fulfillment. Careful planning via test plans is needed to effectively verify and validate cost-efficiently. The Cleanroom methodology applies formal specifications and inspections statically to develop defect-free software incrementally.
The document discusses verification and validation (V&V) in software engineering. It defines verification as ensuring a product is built correctly, and validation as ensuring the right product is built. V&V aims to discover defects and assess if a system is usable. Static and dynamic verification methods are covered, including inspections, testing, and automated analysis. The document outlines V&V goals, the debugging process, V-model development, test planning, and inspection techniques.
The document discusses various topics related to software quality assurance including:
1) It defines key terms like correctness, reliability, testing, failure, error, fault, debugging, verification, and validation.
2) It describes the differences between quality assurance (focusing on processes) and quality control (focusing on products), and lists some common quality assurance/control activities like testing, inspections, and reviews.
3) It provides an overview of a software development lifecycle including requirements, planning, design, coding, testing phases.
Software quality refers to how well a software product or service meets requirements and expectations. It is subjective as it depends on the perspective of the customer. Common aspects of quality include the software being bug-free, delivered on time and on budget, meeting requirements, and being maintainable. True software quality can only be determined by measuring how well the software serves its intended purpose from the viewpoint of all stakeholders.
This document provides an introduction to quality assurance in hospital management. It outlines four objectives: 1) defining quality, quality assurance, and total quality management; 2) explaining the core principles of total quality; 3) describing the competitive total quality infrastructure, practices, and tools; and 4) discussing the impact of quality on profitability. Key points include defining quality as meeting customer expectations, explaining that quality assurance ensures appropriate quality goods and services, and noting that total quality focuses on customer satisfaction and cost reduction through a systems approach.
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The document discusses the function of software quality assurance (SQA). It outlines that SQA includes auditing, reviews, and process checks to enable independent reviews of work. It also requires knowledge of statistics, quality control principles, software processes, and dealing with people. Establishing an SQA function first requires deciding how important quality is versus schedules. It then ensures standards, procedures, reviews, documentation, change control, testing high-risk areas, and satisfying tasks before starting new ones. SQA enforces project and development standards, improving quality and cost-effectiveness. Its objectives are to improve quality through monitoring software and processes, ensuring compliance, and identifying inadequacies.
This document discusses software quality assurance. It defines quality assurance as activities designed to ensure production meets requirements and standards. Software quality assurance involves systematic activities that provide evidence of a software product's fitness for use. It includes components like quality management, software testing, quality control, configuration management, and following quality standards. The document outlines various quality assurance processes like identifying components, version control, configuration building, and change control that are part of ensuring high-quality software.
The document discusses 5 key trends in software quality assurance: 1) increased mobile application testing, 2) testing-as-a-service, 3) business intelligence testing, 4) crowd-sourced testing, and 5) testing enabled by test data generation and management. It also notes that the future of QA will involve more test automation, improved processes, and increased appreciation for the QA role. Overall, the QA industry is adapting to changes like the growth of mobile apps, availability of cloud-based testing services, and the need to test complex business intelligence systems and gather global testing resources.
The document provides an overview of an SQA workshop on quality and process concepts. It discusses quality models, the SQA role, and audit systems. Key topics covered include quality definitions, quality gurus, total quality management, process management, industry quality models like ISO 9001 and CMMI, quality system elements, and the purpose and types of audits.
Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control, Future of Software Quality SQALab
1) Quality control focuses on testing the final product to find defects, while quality assurance aims to prevent defects by establishing processes.
2) Quality frameworks like CMMI and TMMI provide guidance for implementing quality assurance practices and maturity levels for processes like requirements, project management, and testing.
3) Implementing quality assurance requires training people on new methodologies and tools, and changing organizational culture to focus on continuous process improvement rather than only reactive testing.
The document discusses software quality assurance. It covers key concepts like quality, quality control, quality assurance, cost of quality. It then discusses topics like software reviews, formal technical reviews, statistical quality assurance, and the SQA plan. The overall goal of software quality assurance is to achieve high-quality software products.
The document discusses software quality management and outlines five units: introduction to software quality; software quality assurance; quality control and reliability; quality management systems; and quality standards. It defines quality, discusses hierarchical models of quality including those proposed by Boehm and McCall, and explains techniques for improving software quality like metrics, reviews, and standards.
This document provides an overview of quality assurance frameworks for software development. It discusses key concepts like quality, software quality assurance, and its components including software testing, quality control, and software configuration management. It also describes a software quality assurance plan and quality standards like ISO9000, CMM, PCMM, and CMMI. The document is presented by Ketan Mehta from Heritage Institute of Technology in Kolkata and covers an agenda including definitions of quality and SQA, their components, SQA plans, and quality standards.
The document discusses quality assurance frameworks for software development. It defines quality as meeting requirements and outlines the components of quality assurance including software testing, quality control, and software configuration management. It also discusses developing a software quality assurance plan and references common quality standards like ISO9000, CMM, PCMM, and CMMI. The goal of quality assurance is to ensure software products fulfill criteria and have attributes to meet user needs through systematic quality control activities during development.
The document discusses quality assurance and control. It emphasizes the importance of quality assurance and control in improving customer satisfaction and conforming to specifications. It outlines several key aspects of quality assurance including quality planning, assurance, and control. It also discusses how to integrate quality assurance with customer satisfaction and conformance to requirements.
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The document discusses software quality assurance (SQA) and defines key terms and concepts. It outlines the components of an SQA plan according to IEEE standard 730, including required sections, documentation to review, standards and metrics, and types of reviews. It also summarizes approaches to SQA from the Software Capability Maturity Model and the Rational Unified Process.
Quality Assurance is of Tremendous Importance in Pharma and Health care sector.
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A Trust of the Customer on Product is solely based on the Effective QA
QA and testing are both important for software quality but have different goals. QA is a preventative, process-oriented activity aimed at preventing bugs, while testing is product-oriented and aimed at finding bugs. Key differences between QA and testing are outlined. The document also defines terms like quality control, verification and validation. It describes various testing types like unit, integration, system and acceptance testing as well as techniques like black-box vs white-box testing and manual vs automated testing. Concepts covered include test plans, cases, scripts, suites, logs, beds and deliverables. The importance of a successful test plan is emphasized.
Testing is the process of executing software to find defects and verify requirements are met. It involves executing a program or modules to observe behavior and outcomes, and analyze failures to locate and fix faults. The main purposes of testing are to demonstrate quality and proper behavior, and to detect and fix defects. Testing strategies include starting with individual component tests and progressing to integrated system tests. Different techniques like black-box and white-box testing are used at various stages. Manual testing is time-consuming while automated testing is faster and more reliable. Testing continues until quality goals are met or resources run out. Debugging locates and removes defects found via testing.
Testing is the process of validating and verifying software to ensure it meets specifications and functions as intended. There are different levels of testing including unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. An important part of testing is having a test plan that outlines the test strategy, cases, and process to be followed. Testing helps find defects so the product can be improved.
The document discusses software testing and analysis. It describes the goals of verification and validation as establishing confidence that software is fit for purpose without being completely defect-free. Both verification and validation are whole-life cycle processes involving static and dynamic techniques to discover defects and assess usability. The document outlines different testing and inspection methods like unit testing, integration testing, walkthroughs, and inspections and their roles in the verification and validation process.
A brief that includes the following:
- Software Testing
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Control
- Types of Testing
- Levels of Software Testing
- Types of Performance Testing
- API
- Verification & Validation
- Test Plan & Testing Strategy
- Agile & Waterfall
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Career Path
The document discusses various types of testing used in object-oriented software development including requirement testing, analysis testing, design testing, code testing, integration testing, unit testing, user testing, and system testing. It provides details on each type of testing such as the purpose, techniques, and processes involved. Scenario based testing and fault based testing are also summarized in the document.
This document discusses various software testing techniques. It begins by explaining the goals of verification and validation as establishing confidence that software is fit for its intended use. It then covers different testing phases from component to integration testing. The document discusses both static and dynamic verification methods like inspections, walkthroughs, and testing. It details test case development techniques like equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis. Finally, it covers white-box and structural testing methods that derive test cases from examining a program's internal structure.
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• Software Testing Types Explained
• Various Software Testing Tools
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2. LECTURE OUTLINE
• What is Quality?
• What is Software Quality?
• What is Software Quality Assurance?
• Software Testing?
• Software Testing Goals?
• Defects and Failures?
• Static VS Dynamic Testing?
• Types of Software Testing?
• Software Testing Life Cycle?
• Testing and Inspection?
• Stages of Testing?
3. What is Quality?
“A distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by
someone or something or Degree of excellence
achieved”
Oxford Dictionaries definitions
4. What is Software Quality?
• Pressman's definition:
“Conformance to stated functional and performance requirements”
• IEEE Definition:
“The degree to which a system, component, or process meets specified
requirements”
• German Industry Standard:
"Quality comprises all characteristics and significant features of a product or an
activity which relate to the satisfying of given requirements“
5. What is Software Quality Assurance?
• Software quality assurance (SQA) consists of a means of monitoring
the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure
quality.
• The function of software quality that assures that the standards,
processes, and procedures are appropriate for the project and are
correctly implemented.
• Specified standards are used to define the development criteria that
are used to guide the manner in which software is engineered
6. Software Testing
• Software testing is a method of assessing the functionality of a
software program
• Software testing is a process of executing a program or application with
the intent of finding the software bugs.
• It can also be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a
software program or application or product
• Meets the business and technical requirements
• Testing is intended to show that a program does what it is intended to
do and to discover program defects before it is put into use.
8. Defects and Failures
• Not all software defects are caused by coding errors
• Expensive defects are requirement gaps
• Non-functional requirements such as usability, performance, and
security.
• A programmer makes an error (mistake), which results in
a defect (fault, bug)
• Defect can turn into a failure
9. Static VS Dynamic Testing
• Reviews, or inspections are referred to as static testing
• Actually executing programmed code with a given set of test cases is
referred to as dynamic testing
• Static testing involves verification, whereas dynamic testing
involves validation
10. Types of Software Testing
• Compatibility testing
• Smoke testing (basic problems that will prevent it from working)
• Regression testing (old bugs that have come back after change)
• Acceptance testing(User)
• Alpha Testing (simulated or actual operation) and Beta Testing
• Functional Testing (specific action or function of the code)
• Non-functional Testing (behavior under certain constraints)
• Performance Testing (responsiveness and stability under a particular
workload)
11. Types of Software Testing
• Usability testing (User interface is easy to use and understand)
• Accessibility testing (Under Certain Code or Standard)
• Security testing (Penetration)
• A/B testing (effect of one and other)
• Concurrent testing (basic operations and basic input to determine
basic faults)
• Many More
12. Software Testing Life Cycle
• Total Quality Assurance
• QA in every phase of development V&V Model
• There is a typical cycle for testing:
1. Test planning:
Test strategy, test plan. Since many activities will be carried out during
testing, a plan is needed. Priority, sensitivity etc.
2. Test development:
Test procedures, test scenarios, test cases, test datasets, test scripts to
use in testing software.
13. Software Testing Life Cycle
3. Test execution:
Testers execute the software based on the plans and test documents then
report any errors found to the development team.
4. Test reporting:
Once testing is completed, testers generate metrics and make final reports
on their test effort and whether or not the software tested is ready for
release.
5. Test result analysis:
Or Defect Analysis, is done by the development team usually along with the
client, in order to decide what defects should be assigned, fixed, rejected
(i.e. found software working properly) or deferred to be dealt with later.
14. Software Testing Life Cycle
6. Defect Retesting:
Once a defect has been dealt with by the development team, it is
retested by the testing team.
7. Regression Testing:
In order to ensure that the latest delivery has not ruined anything.
8. Test Closure:
Once the test meets the exit criteria, the activities such as capturing
the key outputs, lessons learned, results, logs, documents related to
the project are archived and used as a reference for future projects.
15. Testing and Inspection
• Software inspections Concerned with analysis of the static system
representation to discover problems (static verification)
• Inspections mostly focus on the source code of a system but any
readable representation of the software, such as its requirements or
a design model, can be inspected.
• When you inspect a system, you use knowledge of the system, its
application domain, and the programming or modeling language to
discover errors.
• Software testing Concerned with exercising and
observing product behaviour (dynamic verification)
• The system is executed with test data and its operational
behaviour is observed.
17. Inspection
• During testing, errors can mask (hide) other errors. Because inspection is a
static process, you don’t have to be concerned with interactions between
errors.
• Incomplete versions of a system can be inspected without additional costs.
If a program is incomplete, then you need to develop specialized test, to
test the parts that are available.
• As well as searching for program defects, an inspection can also consider
broader quality attributes of a program, such as compliance with
standards, portability and maintainability.
• Inspections and testing are complementary and not opposing verification
techniques.
• Both should be used during the V & V process.
• Inspections can check conformance with a specification but not
conformance with the customer’s real requirements.
18. Stages of Testing
• Development testing, where the system is tested during
development to discover bugs and defects.
• Release testing, where a separate testing team test a complete
version of the system before it is released to users.
• User testing, where users or potential users of a system test the
system in their own environment.
19. 1. Development Testing
• Development testing includes all testing activities that are
carried out by the team developing the system.
• Unit testing, where individual program units or object classes are
tested. Unit testing should focus on testing the functionality of
objects or methods.
• Component testing, where several individual units are integrated
to create composite components. Component testing should focus
on testing component interfaces.
• System testing, where some or all of the components in a system
are integrated and the system is tested as a whole. System testing
should focus on testing component interactions.
20. i. Unit Testing
• Unit testing is the process of testing individual
program in isolation.
• It is a defect testing process.
• Units may be:
• Individual functions or methods within an object
• Object classes with several attributes and methods
21. Object Class Testing
• Complete test coverage of all the features of the class
• Testing all operations associated with an object
• set and check the value of all attributes associated with
the object;
• put the object into all possible states. This means that you
should simulate all events that cause a state change.
• Inheritance makes it more difficult to design object
class tests as the information to be tested is not
localised.
22. ii. Component or Integration Testing
• Software components are often composite components that
are made up of several interacting objects.
• You access the functionality of these objects through the
defined component interface.
• Testing composite components should therefore focus on
showing that the component interface behaves according to
its specification.
23. iii. System Testing
• System testing of software or hardware is testing conducted on a
complete, integrated system to evaluate the system's compliance with
its specified requirements.
• System testing falls within the scope of black box testing, and as such,
should require no knowledge of the inner design of the code or logic.
• System testing tests the overall behavior of a system.
24. 2. Release Testing
• Release testing is the process of testing a particular release of a
system that is intended for use outside of the development team.
• The primary goal of the release testing process is to convince the
supplier of the system that it is good enough for use.
• Release testing, therefore, has to show that the system delivers its
specified functionality, performance and dependability, and that it
does not fail during normal use.
• Release testing is usually a black-box testing process where tests are
only derived from the system specification.
25. Release Testing and System Testing
• Release testing is a form of system testing.
• Important differences:
• A separate team that has not been involved in the system
development, should be responsible for release testing.
• System testing by the development team should focus on
discovering bugs in the system (defect testing).
• The objective of release testing is to check that the system meets
its requirements and is good enough for external use (validation
testing).
.
26. 3. User Testing
• User or customer testing is a stage in the testing process in which
users or customers provide input and advice on system testing.
• User testing is essential, even when comprehensive system and
release testing have been carried out.
• The reason for this is that influences from the user’s working
environment have a major effect on the reliability, performance,
usability and robustness of a system. These cannot be replicated in a
testing environment.
27. User Testing
• Alpha testing (Generic Software)
• Users of the software work with the development team to test the software
at the developer’s site.
• Beta testing
• A release of the software is made available to users to allow them to
experiment and to raise problems that they discover with the system
developers.
• Acceptance testing (Particular Company)
• Customers test a system to decide whether or not it is ready to be accepted
from the system developers and deployed in the customer environment.
Primarily for custom systems.