SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYLLABUS(CA5331)

SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYLLABUS(CA5331)

ANNA UNIVERSITY TRICHY

LTPC 

3003

UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS 9

Software Process assessment overview – Assessment phases – Assessment principles – Assessment conduct – Implementation consideration – Quality management – Quality assurance plan – Considerations – Verification and Validation.

UNIT II CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT 9

Need for configuration Management – Software product nomenclature – Configuration management functions – Baselines – Responsibilities – Need for automated tools – Plan – SCM support functions – The requirement phase Design control – The implementation phase – Test phase – SCM Tools – Configuration accounting and audit.

UNIT III SOFTWARE STANDARDS AND INSPECTION 9

Definitions – Reason for software standards – Benefits – Establishing standards – Guidelines – Types of reviews – Inspection of objectives – Basic inspection principles – The conduct of inspection – Inspection training.

UNIT IV TESTING AND MANAGING SOFTWARE QUALITY 9

Testing: principles – Types – Planning – Development – Execution and reporting – Tools and methods – Real Time testing – Quality management paradigm – Quality motivation – Measurement criteria – Establishing a software quality program – Estimating software quality.

UNIT V DEFECT PREVENTION 9

Principles of software defect prevention – Process changes for defect prevention – Defect prevention considerations – Managements role – Framework for software process change – Managing resistance to software process change – Case studies.

Total: 45

TEXT BOOKS

1. S.Watts Humphrey, “Managing the software process”, Addison Wesley, 1999. 

2. Daniel Galin, Software quality assurance – from theory to implementation, Pearson education, 2009.

REFERENCES

1. S.Tsum Chow, “Software Quality Assurance a Practical Approach”, Sixth Edition, IEEE Computer Society press, 1985.

2. E.Richard Fairley, “Software Engineering A Practitioner’s approach”, Tata McGraw Hill, 1985.