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DD2459 Programvarutillförlitlighet 7,5 hp

Software Reliability

The subject matter of this course concerns modern and practical techniques for software testing and reliability modeling, suitable for the working software engineer.

Software testing concerns the problem of analyzing and evaluating software products to reach some conclusion about their fitness for use. For safety critical, mission critical and enterprise critical systems development it is nowadays essential to have some form of software quality assurance measures in place within an IT project. Quality assurance measures may involve both managerial and technical procedures. However, the primary focus of this course will be on technical procedures to predict, discover and diagnose errors in software systems.

  • Utbildningsnivå

    Avancerad nivå

  • Kursnivå (A-D)

  • Huvudområde

    Datalogi och datateknik

  • Betygsskala

    A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Kurstillfällen/kursomgångar

VT13 TCSCM, TEBSM för programstuderande

VT14 sofrel14 för programstuderande

Lärandemål

After the course the student shall be able to: 

  • identify the basic activities needed for software testing, including requirements capture, test planning, test case generation, test case execution, fault diagnosis and fault correction,
  • construct requirements models for simple embedded, reactive and object-oriented systems,
  • construct a test suite for a simple requirements model,
  • assess the quality of a test suite according to a variety of coverage models.

Kursens huvudsakliga innehåll

The course will cover the following topics:

  • software testing concepts according to the V-model
  • graphical requirements modeling, including use case modeling
  • logical requirements modeling, including preconditions, postconditions and class invariants
  • graph coverage models
  • logic coverage models
  • input space partitioning
  • syntax based testing
  • reliability models
  • advanced topics such as automated and model based testing.

The theoretical subjects are supported by laboratories that are intended to deepen the student’s understanding of important concepts.

Behörighet

I denna kurs tillämpas skolans hederskodex, se: http://www.kth.se/csc/student/hederskodex.

Rekommenderade förkunskaper

Datalogi motsvarande DD1340/DD1341/DD1320/DD1344/DD1346 samt logik eller diskret matematik motsvarande DD1350/SF2736/SF1610/SF1631.

Litteratur

Kurslitteratur meddelas senast 4 veckor innan kursstart på kursens hemsida.

Examination

  • LAB1 - Laborationer, 3,0 hp, betygsskala: P, F
  • TEN1 - Tentamen, 4,5 hp, betygsskala: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Ges av

CSC/Datalogi

Kontaktperson

Karl Meinke, e-post: karlm@kth.se

Examinator

Karl Meinke <karlm@kth.se>

Versionsinformation

Kursplan giltig från och med VT12.
Examinationsinformation giltig från och med VT12.