COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOFTWARE TESTING AND VERIFICATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BIL 4115 SOFTWARE TESTING AND VERIFICATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Computer Science

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BARIŞ TEKIN TEZEL

Offered to

Computer Science

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge of software quality, security, quality models, standards and methodologies used in software industry.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To introduce software verification and validation concepts and processes.
2   An ability to a test plan for a project including unit tests, integration tests, system and acceptance tests.
3   Discuss practical aspects of a software quality assurance system.
4   To be able to use software testing tools.
5   Explain various software security and quality assurance activities performed during the development and maintenance of software systems.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to software quality and assurance
2 Software security and quality factors
3 Basic concepts in software testing, verification and validation
4 Test Generation from Requirements: Equivalence partitioning
5 Test Generation from Requirements: boundary value analysis, category partitioning
6 Test Generation from Requirements: State Diagrams, Use Cases, Decision Tables, Cause-Effect Graphing.
7 Test Generation from Requirements: Test Generation From Predicates
8 Midterm exam
9 Test adequacy: control flow - 1
10 Test adequacy: control flow 2
11 Test adequacy: data flow - 1
12 Test adequacy: data flow 2
13 Regression Testing
14 Software Test Management

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Dr. Ali Gürbüz, Yazılım Test Mühendisliği, Papatya Yayıncılık, 2010.
Supplementary Book(s): Aditya P. Mathur, Foundations of Software Testing, Pearson Education, 2008.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned and presented in a discussion session. In some weeks of the course, results of the homework given previously are discussed.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

none

Assessment Criteria

Evaluation of exams and assignments.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mete.eminagaoglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 18 18
Preparation for quiz etc. 2 3 6
Preparing assignments 2 6 12
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 128

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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