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Quality Principles and Concepts

Definition of Quality, Contributors to Poor Quality, Why Quality,
Principles of quality, Quality Control and Quality Assurance,
Quality Management
Software Process Models
Overview of ISO 9001, CMMI, SPICE, ITIL, ISO 12207,
Overview of Software Project Management
Project lifecycle, Contract & Project Management, Network
diagrams, Estimation, Risk Management, Change management,
SQA and Software Testing
SQA, Software Testing, Test processes and artefacts, Blackbox vs.
Whitebox testing, When to stop testing?
Software Testing I
Writing of Test-cases, Code-coverage Analysis, Use of check-lists,
Usability Testing,
Software Testing II
Test Techniques, Input Domain Partitioning, Boundary Value
Testing, Path Testing, Data Flow Testing, Case-study,
Quality Tools
Seven QC Tools and their Applications in SQA
MID-SEM EXAMINATION
Defect Prevention
Defect Classification, Defect Analysis, Root-Cause-Analysis,
Continuous Improvement
Reviews & Inspections
Role of reviews, inspections and code-walkthroughs, Various
Inspection techniques, processes and guidelines for
implementation
Fault Tolerant Software
Concept of Fault Tolerance, Fault Containment; Techniques for
developing Fault Tolerance software; Examples/Case-study,
Quality Management System (QMS)
Implementing a QMS, Benefits of QMS, Process guidelines,
Tailoring, Continual improvement cycle, Benchmarking,
Improvements,
Measuring Software Process
What to measure, Attributes of a good metric, Categories of
metrics, computation of metrics, EVM, Metrics for Maintenance,

Audits, Management Reviews and Assessments

Quality Audits & concepts, Management Reviews concept, inputs
and outputs and Assessments overview,
Six Sigma
Concept of Six-Sigma, Introduction to DMAIC and brief
walkthrough of DMAIC, Examples/case-study,

Session 1

T1/Ch2, T2

Session 2

T2

Session 3

T3

Session 4

T1/Ch3,4,5;
T2

Session 5

T1/Ch6

Session 6
&7

T1/Ch6,8,9
R3/Ch9

Session 8

R2/Ch2

Session
10

T1/Ch13, 20

Session
11

T1/Ch14,15;
T2

Session
12

T1/Ch16

Session
13

T1

Session
14

T2; T3
(EVM)

Session
15

T2

Session
16

Evaluation Scheme:

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Duration

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Evaluation

Syllabus for
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EC1
Q2)

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EC2 Mid-sem. Exam.

Assignment

On-line Quiz (Q1 &

EC3 Comprehensive
Exam.

10%

2 hrs

3 hrs

TBA

30%

TBA

10 %

TBA

50%

TBA