CMPT 473 Course Pages (Fall 2016)

This is the home page for all course materials for Professor Cameron's Fall 2016 offering of CMPT 473 Software Quality Assurance.

• Course Administration

Course Structure

• Students work in teams of 2-4 (3 preferred)

• Three assignments count 10% each
• One project counts 30%
• Class presentations and participation counts 20%
• Weekly quizzes count 20% (2.5% per quiz, best 8 quizzes only)
  • Readings from Beautiful Testing
  • Additional Readings

Quality Characteristics and Terminology

• Software Quality Characteristics
• Software Quality through Software Process

Software Testing Techniques

• Software Testing: Dynamic Quality Assessment
• Fault Seeding and Mutation Adequacy
• Mutation Operators
  • Research Directions in Mutation Testing
• White-Box Testing and Adequacy
• Black-Box Testing: The Category-Partition Method
• Case Study: UTF-8 to UTF-16 Transcoder Testing
• NIST Intro to Combinatorial Testing, Rick Kuhn

Long-Term and Large-Scale Testing

• Life Cycle Test Automation
• Regression Testing
• Tools for Continuous Integration at Google Scale

SQA for Security

• Security: A Fundamental Quality Characteristic
• Sanitizers and Fuzz Testing for Security and Hardening

Internationalization

• Unicode and Internationalization Quality Issues

Test Planning and Course Project

• Test Planning
• Course Project Planning and Requirements
• Poster Session

Assignments

• Assignment 1: Mutation Adequacy
• Assignment 2: Testing with Input Space Partitioning
• Assignment 3: SQA for Security