Introduction to software testing, Basic concepts, Verification and Validation, Black box testing: Boundary value testing, Equivalence class testing, State Table Based Testing,Decision Table Based Testing, Cause-Effect Graph based Testing, Positive and Negative Testing, Orthogonal Array Testing. [10 hrs]

White box testing: statement coverage, Branch coverage, condition coverage, MC/DC, path coverage, McCabe’s cyclomatic complexity Data flow based testing, Mutation testing. [6 hrs]

Static testing, Integration testing, System testing, Interaction testing, Performance testing, Regression testing, Managing test process, Debugging. [5 hrs]

Regression testing, Managing test process, Debugging. [5 hrs]

Testing for Specialized Environments: Object-oriented software testing - Issues in object-oriented testing, Fault based testing, Test cases and class hierarchy, Scenario based Test design, Class testing: Random testing for object-oriented classes, Partition testing at the class level, Inter class test case design: multiple class testing, tests derived from behavioral models; Testing Web-Based Applications; Testing Agile-Based Applications, Testing tools. [10 hrs]

To learn the evolution of software testing techniques, Myths and facts of software testing, Models for testing processes, various types of software testing.

To design test cases using black-box and white-box testing techniques, integration testing techniques and system testing techniques.

To understand basic concepts of regression testing, Problems of regression testing, and types of regression testing techniques.

To learn different strategies for testing of object-oriented, agile-based and web-based applications.

After reading this subject, students will be able to:
Design test cases for software systems using black box testing techniques.

Design test cases for software systems using white box testing techniques.

Apply integration testing and system testing on different software systems.

Perform regression testing of software systems and manage the test process.

Test conventional, object-oriented, agile-based and web-based software systems.

C. J. Paul, Software testing: A craftsmen’s approach, CRC Press , 2013

N. Chauhan, Software Testing: Principles and Practices, Oxford University Press , 2018

S. Desikan, R. Gopalswamy, Software Testing: Principles and Practices, Pearson , 2006

G. J. Myers, The art of software testing, Wiley Interscience New York , 2011

1. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
2. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
3. IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering