ENRE 681 - Software Quality Assurance (3 sem. hrs)

Spring 2004

Instructor: Dr.Carol Smidts

This class covers the principles of software development emphasizing quality assurance activities such as reviews and inspections, software measurement, software testing, software cost modeling. Students will learn present-day techniques of software engineering and use them to solve real world problems. Students will have the opportunity to learn and use various tools for test coverage, LOC, Cause Effect Graphing, Cost Modeling.

By the end of this course, students should be familiar with the state-of-the-art in software quality assurance. Students should also be aware of the major open problems in software quality measurement and analysis. The course can be counted towards any graduate program requirements.

Class Hours

Course Syllabus

• Introduction to Principles of Product Quality

• Software Development Lifecycle

  • Waterfall LifeCycle

  • Spiral Models

• Software Quality Assurance Plan

• Writing Software Requirements and Design Specifications

• Analyzing Software Documents using Inspections and Walkthroughs

• Software Testing

  • Data Flow Testing

  • Domain Testing

  • Category Partition Testing

  • OO- Testing

• Software Configuration Management

• Software Metrics

  • Lines of code,

  • Cyclomatic Complexity,

  • Function Points,

  • Feature Points.

• Software Cost Estimation (COCOMO)

• The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) 

Grading Scheme

• Mid Term            25%

• Finals                 35%

• Project               30 %

• Home Work          10%