This Lecture in TISS
Semester hours: 4.0
ECTS / Credits: 6.0
Type: VU Lecture and Exercise
Term: Summerterm / Winterterm

Aim of course

This course provides an overview on the basics and concepts of software quality assurance.

The following topics are covered in the lecture part:

• Software quality assurance in the context of the software development lifecycle
• Methods for static quality assurance
• Methods for dynamic quality assurance
• Methods for identifying and improving quality characteristics of software systems
• Methods for ensuring and improving the quality of software products
• Methods to define and improve processses for the analysis, design, implementation, testing and maintenance of software systems
• Testing in agile projects

The following topics are covered in the lab part:

• Review of requirements and design documents
• Specification and review of test cases
• Unit Tests and Test Doubles
• Test-Driven-Development
• Static Code Anlaysis
• Refactoring Patterns

Learning Outcome

After successful completion of this course, students are able to

• Identify discrepancies and errrors in requirements based on review techniques
• Define and verify quality characteristics for a system
• Derive test cases from requirements
• Implement automated unit tests for a system
• Implement test doubles for isolated testing
• Detect quality issues in source code using static code analysis tools
• Improve the quality of existing source code by applying refactoring patterns

Methods

The following methods are applied for this course:

• Discussion of case studies and examples in the lecture units
• Guidance for the use of common frameworks and tools
• Step-by-step practical individual exercises during the semester
• Provision of sample projects as a base for the individual exercises
• Joint working on topics in small groups and immediate feedback during a workshop

Evaluation

The evaluation of performance is as follows:

• Individual exercises with focus on different static and dynamisch quality assurance methods (e.g. conducting reviews and code analysis, designing and implementing unit tests).
• Workshop in small groups with focus on agile testing
• Written closed-book tests to verfiy the acquired theoretical and practical knowledge