Software Quality assurance and Testing

• General concepts about quality and quality assurance • Testing techniques aimed at assuring that appropriate functionality has been implemented correctly in the software system or product, including: a) black box or functional testing, b) clear box or structural testing, c) usage-based statistical testing. These testing techniques are organized by their underlying models, including lists, partitions and equivalent classes, finite-state machines. • Test activities, management, and related issues, such as testing sub-phases, team organization, testing process, people's roles and responsibilities, test automation, etc., will also be discussed. • Other testing, verification and validation techniques… • Defect prevention: objectives, benefits and techniques • Some practical quality assessment and improvement issues