Software Testing and Quality Assurance (eBook)

Theory and Practice

Kshirasagar Naik, Priyadarshi Tripathy (Autoren)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
648 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-0-470-38283-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

KSHIRASAGAR NAIK, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Previously, he was a software development engineer for Wipro Technologies in Bangalore, India. Dr. Naik has contributed to numerous journal and conference publications in the area of software testing. PRIYADARSHI TRIPATHY, PhD, is a Senior Manager at NEC Laboratories America, Inc., in Princeton, New Jersey, where he designs, coordinates, and conducts software testing for grid-based storage appliances. Dr. Tripathy has worked in the field of software testing and quality assurance for Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, and Airvana, Inc. He has also contributed to numerous publications in the area of software testing.

Inhalt

1. Basic Concepts and Preliminaries.

2. Theory of Program Testing.

3. Unit Testing.

4. Control Flow Testing.

5. Data Flow Testing.

6. Domain Testing.

7. System Integration Testing.

8. System Test Categories.

9. Functional Testing.

10. Test Generation from FSM Models.

11. System Test Design.

12. System Test Planning and Automation.

13. System Test Execution.

14. Acceptance Testing.

15.Software Reliability.

16 Test Team Organization.

17. Software Quality.

18. Maturity Models.

Glossary.

Rezensionen

"The text is user friendly, very clear, and supported by
appropriate tables and process figures, combined with examples and
process execution steps. There are useful detailed explanations
inside text boxes and table, with nicely designed and explained
figures, as well as generated software code samples...This is a
very advanced book that I highly recommend to all software testing
and QA practioners." (Computing Reviews, November 5, 2008)

This book provides a comprehensive review of topics dealing with
software testing and quality assurance. The writing style is plain
but efficient, while the content covers theoretical (to some
extent) and practical concepts in this field. Naik (Univ. of
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) and Tripathy (NEC Laboratories America
Inc.) seem to have limited exposure to current research in software
testing, but they adequately cover the fundamentals. The literature
review sections are useful for researchers who wish to expand their
knowledge on a specific topic, with references well placed at the
end of individual chapters. The rather basic exercises are not
really helpful for instructors. The work would benefit by a few
more supportive examples, although the ones present are well
designed to illustrate the theory, where available. Software
testing may be considered a relatively specialized computer science
topic, existing in the few departments where a software-testing
expert resides or in academic institutions offering a software
engineering degree. However, it is nevertheless an important
subject, with extended applications in industry, the concepts of
which are covered adequately here. This volume would be useful for
instructional purposes at the undergraduate level and for
professionals seeking references to more specialized information.
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates,
faculty, researchers, and practitioners. - D.
Papamichail, University of Miami (Choice, 2009)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: Computer Science • Electrical & Electronics Engineering • Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik • Informatik • Qualität u. Zuverlässigkeit • Qualität u. Zuverlässigkeit • Quality & Reliability • Software Design • Software-Design • Softwareentwicklung • Software Measurement & Testing • Softwaremetriken u. -tests • Test (EDV)
• ISBN-10: 0-470-38283-X / 047038283X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-38283-7 / 9780470382837