P RACTICAL SOFTWARE TESTING Springer New York Berlin Heidelberg Hong Kong London Milan Paris Tokyo P RACTICAL SOFTWARE TESTING A PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH ILENE BURNSTEIN Ilene Burnstein Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 10 West 31 Street Chicago‚ IL 60616 USA burnstei@babbage2.cs.iit.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Burnstein‚ Ilene. Practical software testing : a process-oriented approach / Ilene Burnstein
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WHAT IS A SOFTWARE A set of instructions that cause a computer to perform one or more tasks. The set of instructions is often called a program or‚ if the set is particularly large and complex‚ a system. Computers cannot do any useful work without instructions from software; thus a combination of software and hardware (the computer) is necessary to do any computerized work. A program must tell the computer each of a set of minuscule tasks to perform‚ in a framework of logic‚ such that the computer
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University College Adelphi‚ MD June 5-8‚ 2006 Software Security: Integrating Secure Software Engineering in Graduate Computer Science Curriculum Stephen S. Yau‚ Fellow‚ IEEE‚ and Zhaoji Chen Arizona State University‚ Tempe‚ AZ 85287-8809 {yau‚ zhaoji.chen@asu.edu} Abstract – In addition to enable students to understand the theories and various analysis and design techniques‚ an effective way of improving students’ capabilities of developing secure software is to develop their capabilities of using
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History of software engineering From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2011) History of computing Hardware • Hardware before 1960 • Hardware 1960s to present • Hardware in Soviet Bloc countries Software • Software • Unix • Open-source software Computer science
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The Software Crisis • The most visible symptoms of the software crisis are o Late delivery‚ over budget o Product does not meet specified requirements o Inadequate documentation • Some observations on the software crisis o “A malady that has carried on this long must be called normal” (Booch‚ p. 8) o Software system requirements are moving targets o There may not be enough good developers around to create all the new software that users need o A significant portion of developers’ time must often
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What Is Computer Software? When you think of a computer imagine a machine made of two parts. The first part is the computer hardware‚ the physical parts of the computer that you can actually touch. Some examples of hardware are disks‚ monitors‚ boards‚ chips‚ etc. Hardware does all of the physical work of the computer‚ from memory storage to display. The second part‚ what we call “computer software”‚ acts as the brain of the computer‚ telling the hardware what to do and when and how to do it
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Software Metric Software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences‚ there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and theoreticians to bring similar approaches to software development. The goal is obtaining objective‚ reproducible and quantifiable measurements‚ which may have numerous valuable applications in schedule and budget planning‚ cost estimation‚ quality assurance testing
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Computer software‚ be it the brain behind our VCR or the program created specifically to run a country’s missile defense system‚ are an absolutely integral part of helping to make our day-to-day lives that much less complicated. But when your blender comes screaming to life in your sleep‚ or your bank somehow “loses” your life savings and says “you only have 37 cents in that account”‚ who is to blame? According to liability laws that have been in question since the birth of what might be considered
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECT – I INTRODUCTION: The goal of this paper is to analyze about three major software projects namely • The London Ambulance System • The Virtual Case File • The Automatic Baggage System By analyzing these software projects and the software engineering principles followed‚ the key factors responsible for the software projects failure can be understood. Each of these projects has failed miserable
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Software Testing Carnegie Mellon University 18-849b Dependable Embedded Systems Spring 1999 Authors: Jiantao Pan mailto:%20jpan@cmu.edu Abstract: Software testing is any activity aimed at evaluating an attribute or capability of a program or system and determining that it meets its required results. [Hetzel88] Although crucial to software quality and widely deployed by programmers and testers‚ software testing still remains an art‚ due to limited understanding of the principles of software
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