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A superior primer on software testing and quality assurance, from integration to execution and automation This important new work fills the pressing need for a user-friendly text that aims to provide software engineers, software quality professionals, software developers, and students with the fundamental developments in testing theory and common testing practices. Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice equips readers with a solid understanding of: Practices that support the production of quality software Software testing techniques Life-cycle models for requirements, defects, test cases, and test results Process models for units, integration, system, and acceptance testing How to build test teams, including recruiting and retaining test engineers Quality Models, Capability Maturity Model, Testing Maturity Model, and Test Process Improvement Model Expertly balancing theory with practice, and complemented with an abundance of pedagogical tools, including test questions, examples, teaching suggestions, and chapter summaries, this book is a valuable, self-contained tool for professionals and an ideal introductory text for courses in software testing, quality assurance, and software engineering.

This book introduces the fundamental ideas in testing theory, testing techniques, testing practices and quality assurance. Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice covers the practices that support the production of quality software, software testing techniques, life-cycle models for requirements, defects, test cases, test results, test questions, examples, teaching suggestions, and chapter summaries. Other topics covered are; software quality assurance (SQA), SQA processes and metrics; the role of testing; basics of program testing; theory of program testing; code review; unit testing; test generation from control flow graphs, data flow graphs, and program domains; system integration; system testing; test execution; test automation; acceptance testing; quality metrics and reliability models. For the 2nd edition, the authors have included two major topics: (i) Boolean expression testing; and (ii) testing without oracles.

Presenting the state of the art in component-based software testing, this cutting-edge resource offers you an in-depth understanding of the current issues, challenges, needs and solutions in this critical area. The book discusses the very latest advances in component-based testing and quality assurance in an accessible tutorial format, making the material easy to comprehend and benefit from no matter what your professional level. important, and how it differs from traditional software testing. From an introduction to software components, testing component-based software and validation methods for software components, to performance testing and measurement, standards and certification and verification of quality for component-based systems, you get a revealing snapshot of the key developments in this area, including important research findings. This volume also serves as a textbook for related courses at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level.

The one resource needed to create reliable software This text offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to software quality engineering. By following the author's clear guidance, readers learn how to master the techniques to produce high-quality, reliable software, regardless of the software system's level of complexity. The first part of the publication introduces major topics in software quality engineering and presents quality planning as an integral part of the process. Providing readers with a solid foundation in key concepts and practices, the book moves on to offer in-depth coverage of software testing as a primary means to ensure software quality; alternatives for quality assurance, including defect prevention, process improvement, inspection, formal verification, fault tolerance, safety assurance, and damage control; and measurement and analysis to close the feedback loop for quality assessment and quantifiable improvement. The text's approach and style evolved from the author's hands-on experience in the classroom. All the pedagogical tools needed to facilitate quick learning are provided: * Figures and tables that clarify concepts and provide quick topic summaries * Examples that illustrate how theory is applied in real-world situations * Comprehensive bibliography that leads to in-depth discussion of specialized topics * Problem sets at the end of each chapter that test readers' knowledge This is a superior textbook for software engineering, computer science, information systems, and electrical engineering students, and a dependable reference for software and computer professionals and engineers.

Software Quality Assurance in Large Scale and Complex Software-intensive Systems presents novel and high-quality research related approaches that relate the quality of software architecture to system requirements, system architecture and enterprise-architecture, or software testing. Modern software has become complex and adaptable due to the emergence of globalization and new software technologies, devices and networks. These changes challenge both traditional software quality assurance techniques and software engineers to ensure software quality when building today (and tomorrow’s) adaptive, context-sensitive, and highly diverse applications. This edited volume presents state of the art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices and guidelines for software quality assurance and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice. Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to: quality attributes of system/software architectures; aligning enterprise, system, and software architecture from the point of view of total quality; design decisions and their influence on the quality of system/software architecture; methods and processes for evaluating architecture quality; quality assessment of legacy systems and third party applications; lessons learned and empirical validation of theories and frameworks on architectural quality; empirical validation and testing for assessing architecture quality. Focused on quality assurance at all levels of software design and development Covers domain-specific software quality assurance issues e.g. for cloud, mobile, security, context-sensitive, mash-up and autonomic systems Explains likely trade-offs from design decisions in the context of complex software system engineering and quality assurance Includes practical case studies of software quality assurance for complex, adaptive and context-critical systems

Intended for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of computer science and engineering, information technology, students of computer applications, and working IT professionals, this text describes the practices necessary for the development of quality software. The contents of the book have been framed based on the syllabi prescribed by different Universities and also covers the topics required for working in the IT industry. Based on the experience of the author in the industry, academics, consultancy and corporate trainings in India and abroad, the book covers the methodologies, techniques, and underlying concepts used in Software Quality Assurance and Testing. The treatment of the topics is crisp and accompanied with illustrative examples with minimum jargons. Topics of relevance in the industry, which a student must be familiar with before start of a career, are covered in the book. The book also discusses the concepts that a working IT professional should know. The book provides an insight into the tools available for different types of testing. Each chapter contains Quizzes, Multiple Choice Questions and Review Questions which help the readers to qualify in the international certification examinations. Key features • Covers topics relevant to the industry • Concepts discussed in an easy to understand way and illustrated with practical examples and figures wherever required • Contains “Objective Questions” at the end of the book • Includes topics prescribed in international certification exams in Software Quality and Testing