MSE-202 SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE

Unit-I

Software Quality Assurance Framework and Standards : Concept of Software quality Software,

Software Quality Attributes ,Software Quality Assurance, Components of Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Assurance Plan: Steps to develop and implement a Software Quality Assurance Plan

Quality Standards: ISO 9000 and Companion ISO Standards, CMM, CMMI, PCMM, Malcom

Balridge, 3 Sigma, 6 Sigma.

Unit-II

Quality Assurance: Quality Assurance as dealing with defects, Defects Prevention Techniques:

Education & training, Formal methods. Defect reduction: Inspection –Direct fault detection and

removal, testing –Failure observation and risk identification.Defect Containment: Software fault

tolerance and safety assurance and failure containment.

Unit-III

Software Quality Assurance Metrics and Measurement: Software Quality Metrics, Product Quality

metrics, ¬Process Quality Metrics, Metrics for Software Maintenance, Examples of Metric Programs,

Software Quality metrics methodology, Establish quality requirements, Identify Software quality

metrics, Implement the software quality metrics, analyze software metrics results, and validate the

software quality metrics, Software quality indicators, Fundamentals in Measurement theory.

Unit-IV

Software Testing: Functional vs, Structural testing, Test planning and preparation, Test executions,

Result Checking and measurement, Test Automation.

Testing techniques: Adaptation, specialization and Integration, Case Study: Hierarchical web Testing.

Process Improvement: Process Classification, Process Measurement, Process Analysis and Modelling

Formal Verification & Specification, Fault tolerance and failure containment.

Unit-V

Quantifiable Quality Improvement : QA monitoring and measurement , Analysis and follow up

actions , Implementations, Integration and tool support , Models for Quality Assessment ,Generalized

and product specific models .Risk Identification for quantifiable quality improvement :Traditional

statistical analysis techniques, New techniques for risk identification .Software Reliablity Engineering

:Reliability Analysis Using IDRMs(Input Domain Reliabilty Model) & SRGMs(Software Reliability

Growth Model) , TBRMs(Tree based reliability model) for reliability analysis and improvent .

References:

1. Tian , Software Quality Engineering ,Wiley IndiaPub

2. Limaye , Software Quality Assurance , TMH Pub.

3. Pressman , Software Engineering ,TMH Pub

4. Galin , Software Quality Assurance, Pearson Edu.

5. Musa , Software Reliabilty Engineering , TMH Pub

6. Wieczorek, Software Quality , Springer