SWE 6673:Software Quality Engineering & Assurance

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SWE 6623 and SWE 6613
Course covers total quality management (TQM), the development of quality/test plan and the cost/value trade-off throughout the software development cycle is demonstrated. The notion of validation and verification is explained in the context of different testing techniques, which include black box testing, white box testing, and formal verification. The emphasis of the course is on testing techniques for both non-executable and executable software artifacts as applied to different levels of testing, ranging from inspection, formal verification, unit testing to regression testing.