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CS 484/584
CS 484/584 Software Quality Assurance
Spring 95-96
3 semester credits
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~billjunk/courses/cs484/cs484.html
Last updated: 18 April 1996

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Instructor:
William S.
Junk,
Computer Science Dept.,
University of Idaho,
Moscow, ID 83844-1010
Telephone: 208-885-7530 /
800-824-2889
Fax: 208-885-6165
(alternate: 208-885-9052)
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Mail: billjunk@cs.uidaho.edu ,
Courses for Academic Credit:

Video Tapes Are Available For Rent or Purchase:
The Spring 93-94 offering of
CS 484/585 is available for purchase or rental. The content
of that course are similar to that described below.
Click here to see the 93-94 course outline.
The Spring 95-96 version will also be available beginning in May 1996.
Contact Engineering Video Outreach
at 1-208-885-6373 for more information.
Course Description
Software quality assurance is the planned and systematic pattern
of actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a software
product or system conforms to established technical requirements.
We will study concepts of software quality, the means for defining
measurable quality characteristics, as well as techniques for
ensuring that quality is present in software products. This will
include activities such as specifying quality requirements,
performing product reviews, developing test plans and procedures,
auditing, performing configuration management, and measuring quality.
Concepts of Total Quality Management and performing SQA activities
consistent with ISO-9001 will be stressed.
Specific topics to be covered include:
- Concepts of software quality
- Hierarchical quality models
- User-oriented quality models
- Specifying quality requirements
- Quality management system
- Total Quality Management
- Software quality assurance techniques
- Software measurement
- Relationship to process management
- Quality assurance standards (ISO 9001)
- Theory of software testing
- White-box testing
- Black-box testing
- Design for testability
- Test management


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