CS611 - Software Quality Engineering

Core quality attributes (functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability, portability) and defect taxonomy (error, defect, bug, fault, failure).

Economics of SQE, Function-Quality-Cost (FQC) trade-offs, pre-defined budgets, and the cost of missing requirements.

Quality Management Systems, process benchmarking, and comprehensive CMMI Maturity Levels 1 through 5.

Process improvement frameworks, Process Action Teams (PAT), Requirements Management (REQM), Requirements Development (RD), and Product Integration (PI).

Project Planning (PP), Project Monitoring and Control (PMC), Supplier Agreement Management (SAM), and Integrated Project Management (IPM).

Configuration Management (CM), Measurement and Analysis (MA), Process and Product Quality Assurance (PPQA), and Decision Analysis (DAR).

Requirements gathering, functional vs non-functional requirements, requirement quality attributes, and traceability matrices.

SQA roles, independent reporting, quality audits, defect tracking workflows, and process compliance evaluations.

Functional vs structural testing, Black Box testing (EP, BVA), White Box testing (Statement, Branch, Path coverage), and formal inspections.

Test planning, test cases templates, unit/sanity/regression/stress testing, test dashboards, release notes, and post-production hotfixes.