Software Test, Reliability and Quality Assurance

What you will learn:

You will get practical answers to the following questions: When should you start testing and when can you stop testing? How do you predict software bug rates? Which defects are acceptable and why? What software metrics should be collected to measure testing progress? How do you plan for testing, debugging, and fixing software? What can you look for in code to verify that software reliability has been designed into the software? This course prepares you to create better software and to evaluate software produced by others.

Abstract:

The course provides a detailed view of testing principles and software errors. It describes testing techniques and tools, and presents strategies for allocating resources to testing and debugging. In longer courses a representative test plan is developed in class. The course also contains an extensive discussion of software reliability and quality assurance, including software developed under MIL-STD-2167A or J-STD-016.

Who should attend:

Software faults affect everyone. Product development teams, both software and hardware, need to know about software test and quality. Test engineers should also attend.

Detail:

Course Outline:

Testing Fundamentals

Fault, Failure, Error, Debug...
Examples of Software Errors
Objectives of Software Test
Four Views of Testing

Test Techniques and Strategies

Types of Testing
Boundary Value Analysis
Equiv. Class Partitioning
Error Guessing
Decision Tables
Top-Down, Bottom-Up
Static vs. Dynamic Strategies
Black Box vs. Glass Box

Example Problems in Testing

Managing Test

Software Reliability

Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Measures

MIL-STD-2167A
Configuration Management
Verification vs. Validation
Reviews, Audits, Checklists, Inspections, Witnessing
Automated Traceability Tools
Software Metrics

Availability:
Format	Date	Length	Location	Price
ConsulTraining				RFQ
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Onsite				RFQ
Private			Los Angeles	RFQ