Faculty of management sciences
Department of Technology Management
Course Code & Title. SPM: 601-Software Quality Standards
Credit – 3 Program - MBA (ITM-Specialization Course)
Pre-requisites: SPM
Course goals: by the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Use the basic vocabulary of software quality;
• Apply widely-used functional and structural testing techniques;
• Apply widely-used tools for testing Java code;
• Discuss major issues in system testing;
• Recognize, interpret and write state-based specifications;
• Discuss the benefits of reviews and walkthroughs to software quality;
• Prove simple properties of straight-line and iterative code.
Course outline:
1. INTRODUCTION
Software Process assessment overview - Assessment phases - Assessment principles -
Assessment conduct -Implementation consideration - Quality management - Quality
assurance plan - Considerations – Verification and Validation.
2. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
Need for configuration Management - Software product nomenclature - configuration
management functions - Baselines - Responsibilities - Need for automated tools - plan –
SCM support functions - The requirement phase Design control - The implementation
phase - Test phase - SCM Tools - Configuration accounting and audit.
3. SOFTWARE STANDARDS AND INSPECTION
Definitions - Reason for software standards - Benefits - Establishing standards -
Guidelines - Types of reviews - Inspection of objectives - Basic inspection principles -
The conduct of inspection - Inspection training.
4. TESTING AND MANAGING SOFTWARE QUALITY
Testing: principles - Types - Planning - Development - Execution and reporting – Tools
and methods - Real Time testing - quality management paradigm - Quality motivation –
Measurement criteria - Establishing a software quality program - Estimating software
quality.
5. DEFECT PREVENTION
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