Software Quality

11B0397

Bachelor

German

5.0

irregular

1 semester

Software has to work in order to be accepted by customers. But how do you ensure that the controls of a spaceship, a pacemaker or a stock management system work correctly? In software engineering, various methods of analytical and constructive quality assurance have been developed as answers, which have been practically implemented in various tools. The choice of the right approach also depends directly on the technical environment of the software, such as interfaces, database connections and web applications, with each environment presenting new challenges. The course will cover concepts and approaches for implementing quality assurance measures.

1. Overview of quality assurance
2. Unit tests
3. Coverage measures
4. Behavior Driven Development
5. Mocking
6. Testing user interfaces and web applications
7. Performance and load tests
8. Test automation
9. Constructive quality assurance

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• oral exam or
• Homework / Assignment

• Field work / Experimental work

Choice of examination format by the instructor (oral or written assignment), generally experimental examination EA for the practical course

Graded examination performance:

Oral examination: see general section of the examination regulations
Term paper: at least 15 pages of technical content
Ungraded examination performance:

Experimental work: weekly assignment sheets with exercises

Good programming skills in Java

Students who have successfully completed this module are familiar with various procedures and software tools for analytical and constructive quality assurance.

Students who have successfully completed this module will be able to apply various methods and software tools for analytical and constructive quality assurance; they will be able to evaluate which methods can be used efficiently for certain types of software, taking other boundary conditions into account.

Students who have successfully completed this module have a detailed knowledge and understanding of different analytical and constructive quality assurance methods, can compare their benefits and can apply them using software tools.

Students who have successfully completed this module can argue what needs to be considered from a quality assurance perspective in order to carry out successful software development projects. They can argue under which framework conditions which test approach is most promising for a project.

Students can help shape the quality assurance process depending on individual project requirements and later evaluate the results.

Students learn how customer requirements can be systematically checked using quality assurance approaches.

Students who have successfully completed this module are familiar with different techniques, algorithmic ideas for planning quality assurance measures and the design, execution and evaluation of tests. They are able to choose a suitable type of quality assurance for different types of software and to determine and use the tools to be used. The procedures are practiced using examples from different areas of application.

• Kleuker, Stephan

• Kleuker, Stephan