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Software Quality Engineering: Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quantifiable Improvement

This document provides an overview of a book on software quality engineering. The book covers topics like testing, quality assurance, and quantifiable quality improvement. It is organized into parts on quality assurance alternatives, testing techniques, and analysis and improvement. The goal is to help software producers meet quality expectations by ensuring software systems work as intended, correctly, and can prove it through modeling and analysis. Foundational knowledge in mathematics, statistics, computer science, and software engineering is recommended.

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Software Quality Engineering: Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quantifiable Improvement

This document provides an overview of a book on software quality engineering. The book covers topics like testing, quality assurance, and quantifiable quality improvement. It is organized into parts on quality assurance alternatives, testing techniques, and analysis and improvement. The goal is to help software producers meet quality expectations by ensuring software systems work as intended, correctly, and can prove it through modeling and analysis. Foundational knowledge in mathematics, statistics, computer science, and software engineering is recommended.

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Tian: Software Quality Engineering Slide (Ch.

1) 1

Software Quality Engineering:


Testing, Quality Assurance, and
Quantifiable Improvement

Jeff Tian, [email protected]


www.engr.smu.edu/∼tian/SQEbook

Chapter 1. Overview

• Meeting People’s Quality Expectations

• Book Organization/Overview/Usage

• Pre-requisite Knowledge
Wiley-IEEE/CS Press, 2005 Slides V2 (2007)
Tian: Software Quality Engineering Slide (Ch.1) 2

General Expectations

• General expectation:
“good” software quality

• Objects of our study: software

. software products, systems, and services


. stand-alone to embedded
. software-intensive systems
. wide variety, but focus on software

• Quality (and how “good”) formally defined


in Ch.2

Wiley-IEEE/CS Press, 2005 Slides V2 (2007)


Tian: Software Quality Engineering Slide (Ch.1) 3

Quality Expectations

• People: Consumers vs producers

. quality expectations by consumers


. to be satisfied by producers through
software quality engineering (SQE)

• Deliver software system that...

. does what it is supposed to do


– needs to be “validated”
. does the things correctly
– needs to be “verified”
. show/demonstrate/prove it (“does”)
– modeling/analysis needed

Wiley-IEEE/CS Press, 2005 Slides V2 (2007)


Tian: Software Quality Engineering Slide (Ch.1) 4

Meeting Quality Expectations

• Difficulties in achieving good quality:

. size: MLOC products common


. complexity
. environmental stress/constraints
. flexibility/adaptability expected

• Other difficulties/factors:

. product type
. cost and market conditions
. addressed later (especially Part III)

• “no silver bullet”, but...


SQE (software quality engineering) helps

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SQE as an Answer

• Major SQE activities:

. Testing: remove defect & ensure quality


. Other QA alternatives to testing
. How do you know: analysis & modeling

• Scope and content hierarchy: Fig.1.1 (p.6).

Software quality engineering

Quality assurance

Testing

Wiley-IEEE/CS Press, 2005 Slides V2 (2007)


Tian: Software Quality Engineering Slide (Ch.1) 6

Book Contents

• QA alternatives/SQE activities:
(and mapping to our Parts/Chapters)

• Overview and Basics (Part I)

• QA alternatives:

. Testing (Part II)


. Other alternatives (Part III)
. Overall comparison (Ch.17)

• Analysis and improvement (Part IV)

. overall mechanism (Ch.18)


. measurements/models (Ch.19)
. specific analyses/models (Ch.20∼22)

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Tian: Software Quality Engineering Slide (Ch.1) 7

Book Contents

• Testing (Part II):

. all topics, but focus on techniques


. overview and general questions (Ch.6)
. important common issues (Ch.7)
– activities/management/automation
. testing techniques (Ch.8∼11)
. specialization and integration (Ch.12)

• Testing techniques (Ch.8∼11):

. organized by underlying models:


– lists and partitions (Ch.8&9)
– finite-state machines (Ch.10&11)
. both black-box and white-box views
– all chapters
. both coverage goals (all chapters) and
usage/reliability goals (Ch.8&10)

Wiley-IEEE/CS Press, 2005 Slides V2 (2007)


Tian: Software Quality Engineering Slide (Ch.1) 8

Book Contents

• Other alternatives (Part III):

. defect prevention (Ch.13)


. inspection, review, analysis (Ch.14)
. formal verification (Ch.15)
. defect containment (Ch.16)
. comparison, including testing, (Ch.17)

• Comparing different QA alternative

. applicability and effectiveness


. dealing with quality problems/defects:
– prevention/removal/tolerance
. cost
. overall comparison (Ch.17)

Wiley-IEEE/CS Press, 2005 Slides V2 (2007)


Tian: Software Quality Engineering Slide (Ch.1) 9

Content Dependency

PART I
Chapter 1

Chapter 2 Essential dependency

Chapter 3

Non−essential dependency
Chapter 4

Chapter 5

PART II PART IV
PART III
Chapter 6 Chapter 18

Chapter 13 Chapter 15
Chapter 7 Chapter 19

Chapter 14 Chapter 16
Chapter 8 Chapter 10 Chapter 20

Chapter 9 Chapter 11 Chapter 21


Chapter 17

Chapter 12 Chapter 22

• Dependency: Fig 1.2 (p.10) above

. Essential (solid-lines): prior knowledge


. Part I precedes other (parallel?) parts.
. Non-essential (dashed-lines) sequence,
e.g., simple→complex/top-down/etc.

Wiley-IEEE/CS Press, 2005 Slides V2 (2007)


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Usage and Readership

• Math/statistics pre-requisite:

. discrete math, logic, graph, etc.


. probability and statistics
. used in modeling/analysis.

• Background knowledge in CS/SE:

. computer systems and programming


. fundamentals of computing
. general SE knowledge and experience

• Detailed lists: Section 1.4


– review/self-study for specific topic

Wiley-IEEE/CS Press, 2005 Slides V2 (2007)

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