CSE 4321
Software Testing and Maintenance
Fall 2011

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General Information

Lecture: SWCA 115 SH 205, 12:30pm - 1:50pm, Tue. and Thu.
Instructor: Dr. Jeff Lei , ylei@cse.uta.edu, ERB 531, 817.272.2341
Office Hours: 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Tue. and Thu.
TA: Mehra N. Borazjany, Office Hours: 9:30am to 11:00am, Room: ERB 503
Class Communication: stm@listserv.uta.edu

Prerequisite

CSE 3310: Fundamentals of Software Engineering.

Course Description

Software testing and maintenance play a critical role in ensuring the quality, and thus the success, of a software product. Software testing is the single most widely used approach to detecting software bugs, and often consumes more than 50% of the cost of software development. Software maintenance is key to provide continuity of service, and is mainly concerned with how to control and manage software changes and evolution after the major features are released.

This course is designed to cover the fundamental concepts, principles, methods, and techniques for performing effective software testing and maintenance. Examples of the topics to be covered include the notion of test adequacy, graph-based coverage criteria, control flow-based testing, data flow-based testing, combinatorial testing, regression testing, configuration management and software refactoring.

Lecture notes will be posted below as they become available.

08/25/11: Course Admin., Software Engineering: What and Why
08/30/11: Introduction to Software Testing
09/01/11: Continue on Introduction to Software Testing
09/06/11: Input Space Partitioning
09/08/11: Combinatorial Testing
09/13/11: Graph-Based Testing
09/15/11: Continue on Graph-Based Testing

Textbook

Paul Ammann and Jeff Offutt, Introduction to Software Testing, ISBN 978-0-521-88038-1, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

References

Aditya P. Mathur, Foundations of Software Testing, ISBN 81-317-1660-0, Pearson Education, 2008.
Martin Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Desing of Existing Code, ISBN 0-201-48567-2, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
Penny Grubb and Armstrong A. Takang, Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice (2nd Edition), ISBN 981-238-425-1, 2003.

Grading

Tentatively, the final grade will be determined according to the following percentages:

Homework Assignments - 15%
Quizzes - 15%
Midterm Exam - 30%
Final Exam - 40%

Assignments

You are encouraged to discuss assignments with your classmates but are not allowed to copy solutions from or share with others. Late assignments are acceptable before solutions are posted or explained in class, with 10% deduction for every 24 hours. Less than 24 will be rounded to 24.

Assignments will be posted in this section as they become available.

09/01/2011: Exercises Section 1.2, Problem 3. Due Date: 9/8/2011 (by beginning of class)
09/13/2011: Exercises Section 4.1, Problem 1. Due Date: 9/20/2011 (by beginning of class)

Resources

08/25/11: 10 Best Jobs in 2011

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