KAMARAJ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERNGAND TECHNOLOGY

(An ISO 9001:2000 Certified Institution)

Virudhunagar -626001
COURSE PLAN
Sub. Code : IT1008 Year/Branch : IV IT
Sub. Name : Software Testing Staff-in-charge: Ms. S.Arumuga Devi
TEXT BOOK
Ilene Burnstein, “Practical Software Testing”, Springer International Edition, Chennai,
2003

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UNIT I INTRODUCTION
Introduction 1 1
1 Testing as an Engineering Activity, Role of Process in
OHP 1-6 1 2
Software Quality
2 Testing as a Process, Basic Definitions 6-8,19-
1 3
26
3 Software Testing Principles, The Tester’s Role in a
OHP 26-36 1 4
Software Development Organization
4 Origins of Defects, Defect Classes, The Defect
39-51 1 5
Repository and Test Design,
5 Defect Examples OHP 51-57 1 6
6 Developer/Tester Support for Developing a Defect
57-59 1 7
Repository
Review 1 8
UNIT II TEST CASE DESIGN
7 Introduction to Testing Design Strategies, The Smarter
61-63 1 9
Tester
8 Test Case Design Strategies, Using Black Box Approach
OHP 63-67 1 10
to Test Case Design, Random Testing
9 Equivalence Class Partitioning, Boundary Value
67-76 2 12
Analysis
10 Other Black-box Test Design Approaches, Black-box
76-88 2 14
testing and COTS
11 Using White-Box Approach to Test design, Test
97-103 1 15
Adequacy Criteria, Coverage and Control Flow Graphs
12 Covering Code Logic 103-108 1 16
13 Paths: Their Role in White-box Based Test Design,
Additional White Box Test Design Approaches, PPT 108-124 2 18
Evaluating Test Adequacy Criteria
Review 1 19
UNIT III LEVELS OF TESTING
14 The Need for Levels of Testing OHP 133-137 1 20
15 Unit Test, Unit Test Planning, Designing the Unit Tests OHP 137-142 1 21
16 The Class as a Testable Unit 142-148 1 22
17 The Test Harness, Running the Unit tests and Recording
148-152 1 23
results
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 18 Integration tests, Designing Integration Tests,
PPT 152-163 2 25
Integration Test Planning
19 System Test – The Different Types, Regression Testing,
PPT 163-178 2 27
Alpha, Beta and Acceptance Tests
Review 1 28
UNIT IV TEST MANAGEMENT
20 Introductory Concepts 189-190 1 29
21 Testing and Debugging Goals and Policies 191-196 1 30
22 Test Planning, Test Plan Components 197-216 2 32
23 Test Plan Attachments 216-221 1 33
24 Locating Test Items, Reporting Test Results 221-225 1 34
25 The role of three groups in Test Planning and Policy
OHP 226-230 1 35
Development, Process and the Engineering Disciplines
26 Introducing the test specialist, Skills needed by a test
OHP 235-242 1 36
specialist, Building a Testing Group
Review 1 37
UNIT V CONTROLLING AND MONITORING
27 Defining Terms 263-266
28 Measurements and Milestones for Controlling and 2 39
PPT 266-283
Monitoring
29 Status Meetings, Reports and Control Issues, Criteria for
PPT 283-292 1 40
Test Completion,
30 SCM PPT 292-296 1 41
31 Types of reviews, Developing a review program PPT 307-313 1 42
32 Components of Review Plans, Reporting review results PPT 314-336 2 44
Review PPT 1 45

Additional Topics :

1. Testing Types 1. http://www.onestoptesting.com

2. Testing Interview Questions http://www.geekinterview.com
3. open source Testing Tools http://www.opensourcetesting

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