Static techniques

The document discusses static and dynamic testing methods. Static testing involves analyzing code or documentation without executing the software, while dynamic testing executes the software. Both methods find different types of defects. Key aspects of static testing include review processes, which can be informal or formal. Formal reviews involve several phases: planning, kick-off, preparation, review meeting, rework, and follow-up. The review meeting itself includes logging defects, discussing them, and deciding on next steps. Roles in the review include moderator, author, scribe, and reviewers. Different review types are described.

This document provides a quality management checklist template with sections on quality planning, checkpoints and reviews, testing, documentation reviews, and production readiness. It includes example questions to consider for each checkpoint and review. The full checklist contains over 20 sections with descriptions of quality tasks and considerations for an effective quality management process.

The document discusses project health checks and how they can be used to improve project performance. It notes that many projects fail or face challenges. It then discusses how health checks can help project teams assess their performance by evaluating key criteria like efficiency, customer orientation, and stakeholder management. The document provides examples of criteria that could be used in health checks and emphasizes that health checks should assess management skills and capabilities rather than just projects. It concludes by noting that health checks need to be designed carefully and ask the right questions to provide an accurate view of performance and avoid biases.

This document provides a detailed checklist to review the health of a project. It contains over 100 questions across various categories including project planning, management, quality, resources, users, and development approach. The questions assess the relevance and strength of different project attributes such as having a formal project plan, adequate risk management, proper quality assurance processes, sufficient resourcing and user involvement, and use of a recognized development methodology. The checklist is intended to assist project managers in auditing and improving their project.

At this time of the year it becomes important to understand how your projects are doing. Doing a health check will give you a great and instant view on what is going right and what needs to be improved and more importantly is the project still a viable option and will bring in the benefits

Basic Testing Concepts. This Document will help you to learn the main theme of testing and how it works in our software field.

The document summarizes a good practice guide for requirements engineering. It outlines 66 guidelines for best practices in areas like requirements elicitation, analysis, validation and management. It recommends implementing basic practices first before moving to more intermediate and advanced practices. The guide provides examples of guidelines on using validation checklists and gives advice on planning incremental process improvements by addressing problems, setting goals and managing introductions of new practices.

Static testing involves inspecting work products like requirements, design documents, and code without executing the code. It aims to find defects early when rework costs are lower. The document discusses static testing techniques like unit testing, integration testing, and reviews. Reviews include inspections - moderated meetings where defects are discussed - and technical and informal reviews with subject matter experts. The goal is early defect detection to improve quality and productivity.

Formal reviews follow a six step process: 1) Planning, 2) Kick-off, 3) Preparation where reviewers identify defects individually, 4) Review meeting where defects are logged and discussed, 5) Rework by the author to address defects, and 6) Follow-up by the moderator to ensure defects were addressed. Key roles include the moderator who leads the process, author of the document, reviewers who identify defects, and scribe who logs defects discussed.

CATEGORIES OF TEST DESIGN TECHNIQUES Recall reasons that both specification-based (black-box) and structure-based (white-box) approaches to test case design are useful, and list the common techniques for each. (K1)

This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and processes. It discusses the importance of testing in the software development lifecycle and defines key terms like errors, bugs, faults, and failures. It also describes different types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. Finally, it covers quality assurance and quality control processes and how bugs are managed throughout their lifecycle.

Static testing techniques like reviews can improve both the quality and productivity of software development. The objectives of static testing are to improve software quality by helping engineers find and fix defects early. While static testing won't solve all problems, it is very effective at finding certain types of defects without executing the software. Organizations should consider using reviews of requirements, design, code, testing and maintenance work products to gain these benefits.