CS 7314 (Spring, 2020): Homework #1
Part 1
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Option A: Critical Analysis
Study the overview of QA activities in Part I
(Ch.1-5, but particularly Chapter 3 and general
information from Chapters 13-16 in Part III)
of our textbook,
review the state-of-practice of quality assurance and testing in your
current or former company,
and write a short essay to
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summarize the current/previous practice,
including the quality views/perspectives/definitions,
testing and QA techniques used and activities performed,
process/management/automation/etc. related to QA
(not generic software process and project management),
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analyze its strength and weakness areas,
and
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discuss possible improvements.
You should focus on QA/testing,
not general software process or project management issues.
Notice:
However, if you don't feel comfortable discussing the practices
at your company,
you may choose the second option below.
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Option B:
If you do not have too much to report in the "practice" part,
or if you don't feel comfortable discussing the QA practice at
your current/former company due to confidentiality
or other reasons,
you can select a chapter from Ch.13-16,
or related papers or book chapters on similar topics,
and write your own summary of the chapter/paper.
See the online list of related
books for additional reference.
Notice:
Please make sure that it is your own summary,
based on your understanding
of the subject after reading/studying, not the abstract, summary,
or similar things directly from the original source you have just studied.
You summary/essay should be around 3 double-spaced pages.
Part 2: Problems from our textbook
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Problems 1.3 and 2.4.
Due Date:
Prepared by Jeff Tian
(tian@engr.smu.edu).
Posted: March 18, 2020.
Last update: March 18, 2020.