Software Quality
Code
11170
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Informática
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Ana Maria Dinis Moreira, Miguel Carlos Pacheco Afonso Goulão
Weekly hours
4
Total hours
56
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Knowledge:
-Components of a quality management system (QMS)
-Techniques to support quality assurance and their automation
-Process assessment and improvement methodologies
-Product quality models and assessment of their characteristics
-Characteristics of tools to support quality assurance
Know-how:
-Reify a QMS for software development projects
-Select tools to support quality assurance
-Conduct a maturity assessment of a concrete process
-Construct a quality model for a specific product
-Select applicable standards to software development projects
Soft Skills:
-Inter-group coordination
Prerequisites
Software Engineering, Software Development Methods
Subject matter
- Software Quality: definition and objectives
- Quality planning, assurance, and control
- Software Quality Models
- Quality management, and processes certification
- Software maturity and improvement models (e.g. PSP, TSP, CMMI)
- Qualitative and Quantitative software development process evaluation
- Qualitative and Quantitative software (as a product) evaluation
- Quality management, and product certification
- Verification and validation concepts
- Inspections, reviews, and audits
- Software testing
- Software Reuse and its impact on quality
- Quality in software evolution
- Software reliability
Bibliography
- Linda Westfall, “The Certified Software Quality Engineer Handbook”, Quality Press, 2009
- Stephen K. Han, “Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering”, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2nd Edition, 2002.
Teaching method
The course subjects are presented in the lectures, where the theoretical concepts are illustrated by concrete examples taken from large scale software development organizations. The lab sessions focus in the usage of concrete techniques for promoting and evaluating software process and product quality. These techniques are previously introduced and contextualized in the lectures.
Evaluation method
The evaluation process includes two projects, each worth 20%, as well as two tests, each worth 30%. The projects are carried out in groups and involve the application in practice of some of the studied software quality evaluation and promotion techniques. To be approved, students must obtain an average grade greater or equal to 9,5 points in the projects and an average grade greater or equal to 9,5 points in the tests.