This ppt describes about the bug.. and how bugs provide clues for debugging in software? , What will be consider in debugging a software? Debugging strategies and automatic debugging. The ppt prepared based on examination point of view for software engineering subject
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.
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.
This document discusses software testing principles and concepts. It defines key terms like validation, verification, defects, failures, and metrics. It outlines 11 testing principles like testing being a creative task and test results needing meticulous inspection. The roles of testers are discussed in collaborating with other teams. Defect classes are defined at different stages and types of defects are provided. Quality factors, process maturity models, and defect prevention strategies are also summarized.
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 formal approaches to software quality assurance (SQA). It states that SQA can be improved through software engineering practices like technical reviews, multi-tiered testing, controlling work products and changes, and following standards. It also argues that a more rigorous mathematical approach is needed for SQA since programs can be viewed as mathematical objects with rigorous syntax and semantics defined for languages, allowing proofs of correctness.
Reliability is a measure of how well a system performs its intended function under stated conditions for a specified period of time. It is dependent on factors like the operational profile, fault consequences, and perceived by different users. Various metrics can be used to measure reliability including probability of failure-free operation, mean time between failures, and availability. Reliability models help predict how reliability changes as faults are removed through testing, but no single model is universally applicable.
source code metrics and other maintenance tools and techniquesSiva Priya
The document discusses two source code metrics: Halstead's effort equation and McCabe's cyclomatic complexity measure. Halstead's metrics are based on counts of operators, operands, unique operators, and unique operands in source code. McCabe's measure defines the complexity of a program's control flow graph based on the number of edges, nodes, and connected components. The document also mentions that software maintenance involves a range of activities from code modification to tracking complexity metrics over time.
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.
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.
This document discusses software testing principles and concepts. It defines key terms like validation, verification, defects, failures, and metrics. It outlines 11 testing principles like testing being a creative task and test results needing meticulous inspection. The roles of testers are discussed in collaborating with other teams. Defect classes are defined at different stages and types of defects are provided. Quality factors, process maturity models, and defect prevention strategies are also summarized.
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 formal approaches to software quality assurance (SQA). It states that SQA can be improved through software engineering practices like technical reviews, multi-tiered testing, controlling work products and changes, and following standards. It also argues that a more rigorous mathematical approach is needed for SQA since programs can be viewed as mathematical objects with rigorous syntax and semantics defined for languages, allowing proofs of correctness.
Reliability is a measure of how well a system performs its intended function under stated conditions for a specified period of time. It is dependent on factors like the operational profile, fault consequences, and perceived by different users. Various metrics can be used to measure reliability including probability of failure-free operation, mean time between failures, and availability. Reliability models help predict how reliability changes as faults are removed through testing, but no single model is universally applicable.
source code metrics and other maintenance tools and techniquesSiva Priya
The document discusses two source code metrics: Halstead's effort equation and McCabe's cyclomatic complexity measure. Halstead's metrics are based on counts of operators, operands, unique operators, and unique operands in source code. McCabe's measure defines the complexity of a program's control flow graph based on the number of edges, nodes, and connected components. The document also mentions that software maintenance involves a range of activities from code modification to tracking complexity metrics over time.
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 common myths held by software managers, developers, and customers. It describes myths such as believing formal standards and procedures are sufficient, thinking new hardware means high quality development, adding people to late projects will help catch up, and outsourcing means relaxing oversight. Realities discussed include standards not being used effectively, tools being more important than hardware, adding people making projects later, and needing management and control of outsourced projects. Developer myths like thinking the job is done once code runs and quality can't be assessed until code runs are addressed. The document emphasizes the importance of requirements, documentation, quality processes, and addressing change impacts.
This document discusses several software design techniques: stepwise refinement, levels of abstraction, structured design, integrated top-down development, and Jackson structured programming. Stepwise refinement is a top-down technique that decomposes a system into more elementary levels. Levels of abstraction designs systems as layers with each level performing services for the next higher level. Structured design converts data flow diagrams into structure charts using design heuristics. Integrated top-down development integrates design, implementation, and testing with a hierarchical structure. Jackson structured programming maps a problem's input/output structures and operations into a program structure to solve the problem.
This ppt explores the software testing strategy in Software Engineering. It is more useful for the Arts and Science and Engineering students to understand the Software Engineering. It is more useful in their examination time. This ppt is prepared based on their examination point of view.
This document discusses several software cost estimation techniques:
1. Top-down and bottom-up approaches - Top-down estimates system-level costs while bottom-up estimates costs of each module and combines them.
2. Expert judgment - Widely used technique where experts estimate costs based on past similar projects. It utilizes experience but can be biased.
3. Delphi estimation - Estimators anonymously provide estimates in rounds to reach consensus without group dynamics influencing individuals.
4. Work breakdown structure - Hierarchical breakdown of either the product components or work activities to aid bottom-up estimation.
This Presentation contains all the topics in design concept of software engineering. This is much more helpful in designing new product. You have to consider some of the design concepts that are given in the ppt
This document discusses hierarchical models of software quality, including the McCall and Boehm models. The McCall model addresses three areas of software quality: product operation, product revision, and product transition. Product operation focuses on usability, integrity, efficiency, and correctness. Product revision examines testability and maintainability. Product transition considers portability, reusability, and interoperability. The Boehm model defines three levels of quality attributes: primary uses, intermediate constructs, and primitive constructs. Primary uses include as-is utility and maintainability. Intermediate constructs are flexibility, reliability, portability, efficiency, testability, understandability, and usability. Primitive constructs result in measurable properties.
Software maintenance involves modifying software after delivery to correct faults, improve performance, or adapt to changes. It aims to enhance understandability and modifiability. Key activities that improve maintainability are establishing standards, high-quality design and documentation, and configuration management to track changes. Successful maintenance requires managerial processes like change control boards to review requests and quality assurance to validate changes.
Static analysis is a technique for analyzing source code structure without executing the program. It constructs symbol tables and control flow graphs to determine properties like variable initialization, usage, and flows. Symbolic execution assigns symbolic values to inputs instead of concrete values, propagating the symbols through computations to represent all outcomes with expressions over the symbols. It can derive path conditions for branches as functions of inputs to find input values that execute particular paths when the conditions are linear. Both techniques help validate programs by finding errors, anomalies, and deviations from standards.
Black box testing refers to testing software without knowledge of its internal implementation by focusing on inputs and outputs. There are several techniques including boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, state transition testing, and graph-based testing. Black box testing is useful for testing functionality, behavior, and non-functional aspects from the end user's perspective.
This document discusses 15 factors that influence quality and productivity in software development processes: individual ability, team communication, product complexity, appropriate notations, systematic approaches, change control, level of technology, level of reliability, problem understanding, available time, required skills, facilities and resources, adequacy of training, management skills, and appropriate goals. Each factor is described in 1-3 paragraphs on how it can impact quality and productivity.
The document discusses key concepts in software design, including:
- Design involves modeling the system architecture, interfaces, and components before implementation. This allows assessment and improvement of quality.
- Important design concepts span abstraction, architecture, patterns, separation of concerns, modularity, information hiding, and functional independence. Architecture defines overall structure and interactions. Patterns help solve common problems.
- Separation of concerns and related concepts like modularity and information hiding help decompose problems into independently designed and optimized pieces to improve manageability. Functional independence means each module has a single, well-defined purpose with minimal interaction.
The document discusses several prescriptive software process models including:
1) The waterfall model which follows sequential phases from requirements to deployment but lacks iteration.
2) The incremental model which delivers functionality in increments with each phase repeated.
3) Prototyping which focuses on visible aspects to refine requirements through iterative prototypes and feedback.
4) The RAD (Rapid Application Development) model which emphasizes very short development cycles of 60-90 days using parallel teams and automated tools. The document provides descriptions and diagrams of each model.
Verification and Validation in Software Engineering SE19koolkampus
The document introduces software verification and validation (V&V) and discusses key techniques used in the V&V process, including inspections, static analysis, and the Cleanroom development process. It defines verification as ensuring a product is built correctly and validation as ensuring the right product is built. V&V aims to find defects and assess usability, applying techniques from requirements through deployment. Inspections and static analysis complement testing by checking static representations, while testing checks dynamic behavior. The Cleanroom process uses formal specification, incremental development, and statistical testing with reliability models.
Formal verification refers to mathematical techniques for specifying, designing, and verifying software and hardware systems. It involves proving or disproving the correctness of algorithms in a system with respect to a formal specification or property using formal methods of mathematics. Formal verification techniques include manual proofs, semi-automatic theorem proving, and automatic algorithms that take a model and property to determine if the model satisfies the property. Formal verification is commonly used for safety-critical systems like embedded systems to help ensure correctness. Tools like VC formal, VC LP, and Spyglass can be used to formally verify designs early in development without complex test benches or stimulus.
The document discusses factors related to software project size and effort. It provides the following key points:
1) Software development and maintenance can account for a significant portion of economic activity, with estimates that it will account for 12.5% of the US GDP by 1990.
2) Most effort is spent on maintenance rather than development, with estimates that maintenance accounts for 60-90% of total effort.
3) Software project size is categorized based on factors like number of programmers, duration, lines of code, and interactions/complexity. These range from trivial single-programmer projects to extremely large projects involving thousands of programmers over 5-10 years.
4) A 1964 study found that programmers only spent
The document discusses debugging processes. It begins by defining debugging as finding and correcting software errors uncovered during testing. The debugging process involves executing test cases, assessing results for discrepancies between expected and actual performance, and attempting to find the cause through iterative testing and corrections. There are generally three debugging approaches: brute force using extensive logging, backtracking by tracing code backwards from symptoms, and cause elimination using binary partitioning to isolate potential error causes.
This document discusses statistical quality assurance techniques for software. It explains that statistical quality assurance involves collecting information about software errors, categorizing them, tracing each error to its underlying cause using the Pareto principle to identify the most common causes, and correcting problems that led to those errors. Common causes of software defects are then listed, such as incomplete specifications, misinterpreted customer communication, and violations of programming standards. The document states that statistical quality assurance techniques have been shown to significantly improve software quality at some organizations through around a 50% reduction in defects per year. It concludes by introducing Six Sigma as a widely used strategy for statistical quality assurance, originally developed by Motorola, which uses data analysis to measure and improve processes by identifying and eliminating
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.
The document discusses software testing and provides definitions, purposes, and types of software testing. Some key points:
- Testing is defined as "the process of executing a program with the intent of finding errors." This is a more appropriate definition than ones focusing on demonstrating the absence of errors.
- Testing should be done because launching software without testing may lead to higher costs from bugs, especially for systems involving human safety. Earlier bug discovery and removal reduces costs.
- Testing requires developers to find errors in their own work, so many organizations separate development and testing roles.
- Complete testing of all possible inputs and paths is not possible due to their vast number. Techniques like boundary value analysis and worst-case
Software engineering 22 error detection and debuggingVaibhav Khanna
Debugging is the process of finding and resolving defects or problems within a computer program that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system
The document discusses formal verification techniques for proving program correctness. It describes the axiomatic approach, where assertions are made at various points in a program about variable relationships. To prove correctness, it must be shown that applying the program statements transforms one assertion into the next. Formal verification can reduce testing costs but cannot replace testing for system validation.
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 common myths held by software managers, developers, and customers. It describes myths such as believing formal standards and procedures are sufficient, thinking new hardware means high quality development, adding people to late projects will help catch up, and outsourcing means relaxing oversight. Realities discussed include standards not being used effectively, tools being more important than hardware, adding people making projects later, and needing management and control of outsourced projects. Developer myths like thinking the job is done once code runs and quality can't be assessed until code runs are addressed. The document emphasizes the importance of requirements, documentation, quality processes, and addressing change impacts.
This document discusses several software design techniques: stepwise refinement, levels of abstraction, structured design, integrated top-down development, and Jackson structured programming. Stepwise refinement is a top-down technique that decomposes a system into more elementary levels. Levels of abstraction designs systems as layers with each level performing services for the next higher level. Structured design converts data flow diagrams into structure charts using design heuristics. Integrated top-down development integrates design, implementation, and testing with a hierarchical structure. Jackson structured programming maps a problem's input/output structures and operations into a program structure to solve the problem.
This ppt explores the software testing strategy in Software Engineering. It is more useful for the Arts and Science and Engineering students to understand the Software Engineering. It is more useful in their examination time. This ppt is prepared based on their examination point of view.
This document discusses several software cost estimation techniques:
1. Top-down and bottom-up approaches - Top-down estimates system-level costs while bottom-up estimates costs of each module and combines them.
2. Expert judgment - Widely used technique where experts estimate costs based on past similar projects. It utilizes experience but can be biased.
3. Delphi estimation - Estimators anonymously provide estimates in rounds to reach consensus without group dynamics influencing individuals.
4. Work breakdown structure - Hierarchical breakdown of either the product components or work activities to aid bottom-up estimation.
This Presentation contains all the topics in design concept of software engineering. This is much more helpful in designing new product. You have to consider some of the design concepts that are given in the ppt
This document discusses hierarchical models of software quality, including the McCall and Boehm models. The McCall model addresses three areas of software quality: product operation, product revision, and product transition. Product operation focuses on usability, integrity, efficiency, and correctness. Product revision examines testability and maintainability. Product transition considers portability, reusability, and interoperability. The Boehm model defines three levels of quality attributes: primary uses, intermediate constructs, and primitive constructs. Primary uses include as-is utility and maintainability. Intermediate constructs are flexibility, reliability, portability, efficiency, testability, understandability, and usability. Primitive constructs result in measurable properties.
Software maintenance involves modifying software after delivery to correct faults, improve performance, or adapt to changes. It aims to enhance understandability and modifiability. Key activities that improve maintainability are establishing standards, high-quality design and documentation, and configuration management to track changes. Successful maintenance requires managerial processes like change control boards to review requests and quality assurance to validate changes.
Static analysis is a technique for analyzing source code structure without executing the program. It constructs symbol tables and control flow graphs to determine properties like variable initialization, usage, and flows. Symbolic execution assigns symbolic values to inputs instead of concrete values, propagating the symbols through computations to represent all outcomes with expressions over the symbols. It can derive path conditions for branches as functions of inputs to find input values that execute particular paths when the conditions are linear. Both techniques help validate programs by finding errors, anomalies, and deviations from standards.
Black box testing refers to testing software without knowledge of its internal implementation by focusing on inputs and outputs. There are several techniques including boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, state transition testing, and graph-based testing. Black box testing is useful for testing functionality, behavior, and non-functional aspects from the end user's perspective.
This document discusses 15 factors that influence quality and productivity in software development processes: individual ability, team communication, product complexity, appropriate notations, systematic approaches, change control, level of technology, level of reliability, problem understanding, available time, required skills, facilities and resources, adequacy of training, management skills, and appropriate goals. Each factor is described in 1-3 paragraphs on how it can impact quality and productivity.
The document discusses key concepts in software design, including:
- Design involves modeling the system architecture, interfaces, and components before implementation. This allows assessment and improvement of quality.
- Important design concepts span abstraction, architecture, patterns, separation of concerns, modularity, information hiding, and functional independence. Architecture defines overall structure and interactions. Patterns help solve common problems.
- Separation of concerns and related concepts like modularity and information hiding help decompose problems into independently designed and optimized pieces to improve manageability. Functional independence means each module has a single, well-defined purpose with minimal interaction.
The document discusses several prescriptive software process models including:
1) The waterfall model which follows sequential phases from requirements to deployment but lacks iteration.
2) The incremental model which delivers functionality in increments with each phase repeated.
3) Prototyping which focuses on visible aspects to refine requirements through iterative prototypes and feedback.
4) The RAD (Rapid Application Development) model which emphasizes very short development cycles of 60-90 days using parallel teams and automated tools. The document provides descriptions and diagrams of each model.
Verification and Validation in Software Engineering SE19koolkampus
The document introduces software verification and validation (V&V) and discusses key techniques used in the V&V process, including inspections, static analysis, and the Cleanroom development process. It defines verification as ensuring a product is built correctly and validation as ensuring the right product is built. V&V aims to find defects and assess usability, applying techniques from requirements through deployment. Inspections and static analysis complement testing by checking static representations, while testing checks dynamic behavior. The Cleanroom process uses formal specification, incremental development, and statistical testing with reliability models.
Formal verification refers to mathematical techniques for specifying, designing, and verifying software and hardware systems. It involves proving or disproving the correctness of algorithms in a system with respect to a formal specification or property using formal methods of mathematics. Formal verification techniques include manual proofs, semi-automatic theorem proving, and automatic algorithms that take a model and property to determine if the model satisfies the property. Formal verification is commonly used for safety-critical systems like embedded systems to help ensure correctness. Tools like VC formal, VC LP, and Spyglass can be used to formally verify designs early in development without complex test benches or stimulus.
The document discusses factors related to software project size and effort. It provides the following key points:
1) Software development and maintenance can account for a significant portion of economic activity, with estimates that it will account for 12.5% of the US GDP by 1990.
2) Most effort is spent on maintenance rather than development, with estimates that maintenance accounts for 60-90% of total effort.
3) Software project size is categorized based on factors like number of programmers, duration, lines of code, and interactions/complexity. These range from trivial single-programmer projects to extremely large projects involving thousands of programmers over 5-10 years.
4) A 1964 study found that programmers only spent
The document discusses debugging processes. It begins by defining debugging as finding and correcting software errors uncovered during testing. The debugging process involves executing test cases, assessing results for discrepancies between expected and actual performance, and attempting to find the cause through iterative testing and corrections. There are generally three debugging approaches: brute force using extensive logging, backtracking by tracing code backwards from symptoms, and cause elimination using binary partitioning to isolate potential error causes.
This document discusses statistical quality assurance techniques for software. It explains that statistical quality assurance involves collecting information about software errors, categorizing them, tracing each error to its underlying cause using the Pareto principle to identify the most common causes, and correcting problems that led to those errors. Common causes of software defects are then listed, such as incomplete specifications, misinterpreted customer communication, and violations of programming standards. The document states that statistical quality assurance techniques have been shown to significantly improve software quality at some organizations through around a 50% reduction in defects per year. It concludes by introducing Six Sigma as a widely used strategy for statistical quality assurance, originally developed by Motorola, which uses data analysis to measure and improve processes by identifying and eliminating
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.
The document discusses software testing and provides definitions, purposes, and types of software testing. Some key points:
- Testing is defined as "the process of executing a program with the intent of finding errors." This is a more appropriate definition than ones focusing on demonstrating the absence of errors.
- Testing should be done because launching software without testing may lead to higher costs from bugs, especially for systems involving human safety. Earlier bug discovery and removal reduces costs.
- Testing requires developers to find errors in their own work, so many organizations separate development and testing roles.
- Complete testing of all possible inputs and paths is not possible due to their vast number. Techniques like boundary value analysis and worst-case
Software engineering 22 error detection and debuggingVaibhav Khanna
Debugging is the process of finding and resolving defects or problems within a computer program that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system
The document discusses formal verification techniques for proving program correctness. It describes the axiomatic approach, where assertions are made at various points in a program about variable relationships. To prove correctness, it must be shown that applying the program statements transforms one assertion into the next. Formal verification can reduce testing costs but cannot replace testing for system validation.
The document discusses various topics related to software testing including:
1. The goals of testing are to prevent bugs through early testing and reduce perceived risk of software not working through testing.
2. There are different phases of testing including unit, integration, and system testing with different objectives at each level.
3. Effective testing requires models of the software, environment, potential bugs, and tests themselves which are refined based on unexpected results.
4. Oracles or specifications of expected test outcomes are needed to conduct rigorous testing and reduce the effort of predicting outcomes for each test. Prior test suites and commercial oracles can provide expected outcomes.
The document discusses techniques for software testers to advocate for bugs they have found to get them prioritized and fixed. It recommends testers think of bug reports as tools to convince programmers to spend time fixing issues. Effective bug reports motivate programmers by highlighting impact and addressing objections. Testers should research failure conditions thoroughly by varying their own behavior, program options/settings, and software/hardware environments to prove bugs are more serious or widespread than initially found. The goal is to provide compelling arguments to prioritize and fix bugs.
Effective Bug Tracking Systems: Theories and ImplementationIOSR Journals
The document discusses effective bug tracking systems and proposes four directions to enhance them:
1. Tool oriented improvements like making setup and installation simpler for open source tools like Bugzilla.
2. Information oriented improvements like ensuring bug reports capture essential details needed to fix issues.
3. Process oriented improvements like simplifying bug reporting and notification processes.
4. User oriented improvements like reducing complexity and improving usability.
The authors developed a prototype bug tracking application to demonstrate how following these directions can help software developers more easily understand and quickly resolve bugs.
This document discusses defect prediction models in software development. It begins by covering the importance of effort estimation in software maintenance planning and management. The document then discusses how data from software defect reports, including details on defects, components, testers and fixes, can be used to build reliability models to predict remaining defects. Machine learning and data mining techniques are proposed to analyze relationships between software quality across releases and to construct predictive models for forecasting time to fix defects. The document provides an overview of typical software development processes and then discusses a two-step approach to defect prediction and analysis using appropriate statistics and data mining techniques.
This document discusses software testing and outlines the development planning process. It describes project requirement documents, wireframes, and mockups. Wireframes provide the basic structure and layout, while mockups add color and graphics. The document then defines software testing as evaluating a system to find errors and ensure it meets requirements. Different types of testing are outlined, including full regression testing, ad-hoc testing, and retesting. Causes of software defects and how testing improves quality are also summarized.
1. The document discusses software testing and provides definitions, objectives, and types of testing. It defines testing as analyzing software to detect bugs and differences from requirements.
2. The primary objectives of testing are to design tests that systematically uncover errors with minimal time and effort. Exhaustive testing all possible inputs is not possible due to the large number of combinations.
3. White box testing uses the internal logic and structure of code to design test cases that execute all independent paths, loops, and internal data structures to ensure validity. It helps optimize code but does not ensure requirements are fulfilled and requires a skilled tester.
Chapter 1 Fundamental of testing (By Eva Normala)EvaNormala
Testing is necessary because humans make mistakes. Testing checks if things are working properly by looking for defects or faults caused by errors during software development. The fundamental principles of testing are that testing shows the presence of defects but cannot prove their absence, exhaustive testing is impossible, and testing should start early in the development lifecycle. Testing follows a fundamental process including planning, analysis, implementation and execution, evaluation, and closure activities. Psychological factors like clear objectives and independence influence effective testing.
This paper describes the different techniques of testing the software. This paper explicitly addresses the idea for testability and the important thing is that the testing itself-not just by saying that testability is a desirable goal, but by showing how to do it. Software testing is the process we used to measure the quality of developed software. Software Testing is not just about error-finding and their solution but also about checking the client requirements and testing that those requirements are met by the software solution. It is the most important functional phase in the Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) as it exhibits all mistakes, flaws and errors in the developed software. Without finding these errors, technically termed as ‘bugs,’ software development is not considered to be complete. Hence, software testing becomes an important parameter for assuring quality of the software product. We discuss here about when to start and when to stop the testing of software. How errors or Bugs are formed and rectified. How software testing is done i.e. with the help of Team Work.
This document discusses software reliability and fault discovery probability analysis. It begins by defining software reliability as consisting of error prevention, fault discovery and removal, and reliability measurements. A beta distribution model is proposed to analyze the probability of discovering faults during software testing. The document evaluates different parameter estimation methods for the beta distribution model like variance, sum of squares, and maximum likelihood estimation. It analyzes the performance of these parameter estimation methods using sample programs. The document concludes that estimating failure rates from different faults under different testing measures can provide a prior evaluation of a model's parameters and predict testing effort required to achieve quality goals.
IRJET- Technique of Finding the Defect in Software TestingIRJET Journal
This document discusses techniques for finding defects in software testing. It begins by defining software testing and explaining the goal is to find bugs or errors. Then it discusses the full bug lifecycle from when a bug is first found and reported until it is fixed. It provides different classifications of defects such as invalid, duplicate, not reproducible, can't fix, etc. It also provides templates for test plans, test cases, and bug reports. Finally, it discusses the black box testing technique of equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, and decision tables which are used to design test cases to efficiently discover software defects.
The document discusses software testing and debugging. It defines software testing as validating a software product to identify bugs and ensure it meets requirements. Debugging is defined as detecting and removing errors that cause unexpected behavior. The debugging process involves reproducing issues, analyzing variables, fixing bugs, and validating fixes. Common debugging tools and techniques like print statements, backtracking, and cause elimination are also outlined.
Software Testing overview jay prakash maurya.pptxJayPrakash779563
The document provides an overview of software testing, including definitions of testing and debugging, the purpose and goals of testing, models for testing, consequences of bugs, and a taxonomy of bugs. It discusses phases in a tester's career, dichotomies between testing and debugging, prerequisites for testing, and metrics for software testing. The key topics covered include the testing process, debugging, types of bugs like requirements bugs and coding bugs, and models used in testing like the environment model and bug hypotheses.
The document discusses the history of the term "bug" originating from a defect found on the MARK II computer by Grace Hopper. It then provides details on defect tracking software, including definitions of software defects, types of defects, why defect tracking systems are necessary, components of a good system, standard classification methods, and examples of systems used by Sun and open source projects.
This document provides an overview of a bug tracking system final year project. It discusses what a bug is, types of bugs, why bug tracking systems are necessary, components of an effective system, and examples of bugs that had extreme effects. It also outlines the proposed software's functionalities, development environment, hardware requirements, timeline, and ER diagram. The document aims to plan and design a bug tracking software application.
Debugging is the process of fixing errors in software. It typically occurs after testing reveals bugs. There are several strategies for debugging, including deduction, backtracking, and cause elimination. Debugging tools can help, such as debuggers that allow stepping through code, setting breakpoints, and examining variables. The goal of debugging is to methodically identify and correct the root cause of defects.
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.
The document discusses software testing concepts like validation testing vs defect testing, system and component testing strategies, and test automation tools. It defines key terms like bugs, defects, errors, faults, and failures. It also describes techniques like equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis that are used to generate test cases that thoroughly test software. Component testing tests individual program parts while system testing tests integrated groups of components. Test cases specify conditions to determine if software works as intended.
This document discusses testing and debugging techniques. It defines unit testing as testing individual modules to check for issues. The main types of testing covered are functional testing, which tests features and scenarios, and performance testing, which measures how the system handles different workloads. Stress testing monitors the system under overload conditions. Debugging is the process of finding and fixing bugs so the software behaves as expected, and can involve backtracking through code or eliminating potential causes through testing.
Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation w...IJCNCJournal
Paper Title
Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation with Hybrid Beam Forming Power Transfer in WSN-IoT Applications
Authors
Reginald Jude Sixtus J and Tamilarasi Muthu, Puducherry Technological University, India
Abstract
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) helps to overcome various difficulties in future technology wireless communications. NOMA, when utilized with millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel estimation becomes extremely difficult. For reaping the benefits of the NOMA and mm-Wave combination, effective channel estimation is required. In this paper, we propose an enhanced particle swarm optimization based long short-term memory estimator network (PSOLSTMEstNet), which is a neural network model that can be employed to forecast the bandwidth required in the mm-Wave MIMO network. The prime advantage of the LSTM is that it has the capability of dynamically adapting to the functioning pattern of fluctuating channel state. The LSTM stage with adaptive coding and modulation enhances the BER.PSO algorithm is employed to optimize input weights of LSTM network. The modified algorithm splits the power by channel condition of every single user. Participants will be first sorted into distinct groups depending upon respective channel conditions, using a hybrid beamforming approach. The network characteristics are fine-estimated using PSO-LSTMEstNet after a rough approximation of channels parameters derived from the received data.
Keywords
Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Bit Error Rate (BER), mm-Wave, MIMO, NOMA, deep learning, optimization.
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Networking is a telecommunications network that allows computers to exchange data. In
computer networks, networked computing devices pass data to each other along data
connections. Data is transferred in the form of packets. The connections between nodes are
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Natural language processing (NLP) has
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as machine translation, email spam detection,
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and question answering. This paper first delineates
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1. The Art of Debugging
Dr. S. Karthigai Selvi
Guest Teacher
Department of Computer Science and Applications
The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University,
India
kkgruugpg@gmail.com
2. What is debugging?
Testing process results uncover processes
and errors. Debugging is the process of
removing the errors.
It reveals the area where the correspondence
between aim and testing result.
It is a series of process and produces two
outcomes
(1) the cause will be found and corrected or
(2) the cause will not be found.
3. characteristics of bugs provide
some clues:
1. That is, the symptom may appear in one part
of a program, while the cause may actually
be located at a site that is far removed. Highly
coupled components increase this situation.
2. The symptom may disappear (temporarily)
when another error is corrected.
3. The symptom may actually be caused by non-
errors (e.g., round-off inaccuracies).
4. The symptom may be caused by human error
that is not easily traced.
4. 5. The symptom may be a result of timing
problems, rather than processing problems.
6. It may be difficult to accurately reproduce
input conditions (e.g., a real-time application
in which input ordering is indeterminate).
7. The symptom may be due to causes that are
distributed across a number of tasks running
on different processors.
6. Debugging Strategies
Debugging is a straightforward application of
the scientific method that has been
developed over 2,500 years
Based on working hypotheses partition the
software into two or more, then debug the
programs
Three debugging strategies were proposed
by Mye
7. Strategies are
Brue Force: Isolate errors
by
memory dumps are taken,
run-time traces are invoked,
the program is loaded with
output statements.
Any one clue is identified in
the above activities and entire
program will be debugged
It consumes more time
Debugging
Cause
Elimination
Backtracking Brute Force
8. Backtracking:
Most common method for small programs
The errors are backward traced manually
Drawback: if no of lines increased the detection
will difficult
Cause elimination:
Introduces binary partitioning
A “cause hypothesis” is
devised and the aforementioned data are used to
prove or disprove the hypothesis.
a list of all possible causes is developed and tests
are conducted to eliminate each
9. Automated debugging
debugging approaches can be supplemented with
debugging tools that can provide you with semi-automated
support as debugging strategies are attempted.
Integrated development environments (IDEs) provide a way
to capture some of the language specific predetermined
errors (e.g., missing end-of-statement characters,
undefined variables, and so on) without requiring
compilation.”
A wide variety of debugging compilers, dynamic debugging
aids (“tracers”), automatic test-case generators, and cross-
reference mapping tools are available. However, tools are
not a substitute for careful evaluation based on a complete
design model and clear source code.
10. Correcting the Error
Once a bug has been found, it must be
corrected. Before making the “correction” that
removes the cause of a bug:
Is the cause of the bug reproduced in another
part of the program?
a program defect is caused by an erroneous pattern of
logic that may be reproduced elsewhere. Explicit
consideration of the logical pattern mayresult in the
discovery of other errors.
What “next bug” might be introduced by the fix
I’m about to make?
11. What could we have done to prevent this bug
in the first place?
Before the correction is made, the source code
(or, better, the design) should be evaluated to
assess coupling of logic and data structures. If the
correction is to be made in a highly coupled
section of the program, special care must be
taken when any change is made.
What could we have done to prevent this bug
in the first place?
If you correct the process as well as the product,
the bug will be removed from the current program
and may be eliminated from all future programs.
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