Software Testing
- Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Software Testing

INTRODUCTION

1. Testing as an engineering activity - Answer (click here)
2. Role of process in software quality - Answer (click here)
3. Testing as a process - Answer (click here)
4. Basic definitions in Software Testing - Answer (click here)
5. Software testing principles - Answer (click here)
6. The tester’s role in a software development organization - Answer (click here)
7. Origin of Defects - Answer (click here)
8. Defect classes, the defect repository and test design - Answer (click here)
9. Defect Examples: The Coin Problem - Answer (click here)
10. Developer/Tester Support for Developing a Defect Repository - Answer (click here)

TEST CASE DESIGN

1. Introduction to Testing Design Strategies - Answer (click here)
2. The Smart Tester - Answer (click here)
3. Test Case Design Strategies - Answer (click here)
4. Using black box approach to test case design - Answer (click here)
5. Random Testing - Answer (click here)
6. Equivalence Class Partitioning - Answer (click here)
7. Boundary Value Analysis - Answer (click here)
8. Other Black Box Test Design Approaches - Answer (click here)
9. Using white box approach to test design - Answer (click here)
10. Test adequacy criteria - Answer (click here)
11. Coverage and Control Flow Graphs - Answer (click here)
12. Covering Code Logic - Answer (click here)
13. Paths: Their Role in White Box-Based Test Design - Answer (click here)
14. Additional White Box Test Design Approaches - Answer (click here)
15. Evaluating Test Adequacy Criteria - Answer (click here)

LEVELS OF TESTING

1. The need for levels of testing - Answer (click here)
2. Unit test - Answer (click here)
3. Unit test planning - Answer (click here)
4. Designing the unit tests - Answer (click here)
5. The class as a testable unit - Answer (click here)
6. The test harness - Answer (click here)
7. Running the unit tests and recording results - Answer (click here)
8. Integration tests - Answer (click here)
9. Designing integration tests - Answer (click here)
10. Integration test planning - Answer (click here)
11. System test - The different types - Answer (click here)
12. Regression testing - Answer (click here)
13. Alpha, beta and acceptance tests - Answer (click here)

TEST AMANAGEMENT

1. People and organizational issues in testing - Answer (click here)
2. Organization structures for testing teams - Answer (click here)
3. Test planning - Answer (click here)
4. Test plan components - Answer (click here)
5. Test plan attachments - Answer (click here)
6. Locating test items - Answer (click here)
7. Reporting test results - Answer (click here)
8. The role of three groups in test planning and policy development - Answer (click here)
9. Process and the engineering disciplines - Answer (click here)
10. Introducing the test specialist - Answer (click here)
11. Skills needed by a test specialist - Answer (click here)
12. Building a testing group - Answer (click here)
13. Defining terms - Controlling and Monitoring - Answer (click here)

TEST AUTOMATION

1. Measurements and milestones for controlling and monitoring - Answer (click here)
2. Status meetings -Reports and control issues - Answer (click here)
3. Criteria for test completion - Answer (click here)
4. SCM - Answer (click here)
5. Review program - Answer (click here)
6. Types of Reviews - Answer (click here)
7. Components of review plans - Answer (click here)
8. Reporting review results - Answer (click here)