Course contents (tentative)

Module 1 (Software Engineering) 

Module 2 (Software Testing)

Module 3 (Advanced Software Testing)

Textbook:

• Rajib Mall. 2014. Fundamentals of Software Engineering (4th. edition). Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd.

References:

• Paul Ammann and Jeff Offutt. 2008. Introduction to Software Testing (2nd. edition). Cambridge University Press, USA.
• Some selected papers from SE conferences/journals:
  1. T. J. McCabe, A Complexity Measure, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. SE-2, no. 4, pp. 308-320, Dec. 1976.
  2. S. Mondal, and R. Nasre, Colosseum: Regression Test Prioritization by Delta Displacement in Test Coverage, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), (early access), pp. 1-1, September 2021 (2021). 
  3. S. Mondal, D. Silva, and M. d'Amorim, Soundy Automated Parallelization of Test Execution, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pp. 309-319, Luxembourg, 27 Sept.-1 Oct. 2021 (2021).
  4. K. Costa, R. Ferreira, G. Pinto, M. d'Amorim and B. Miranda, Test Flakiness Across Programming Languages, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2022.
  5. S. Mondal, and R. Nasre, Hansie: Hybrid and Consensus Regression Test Prioritization, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 172, February 2021, 110850 (2021).
  6. S. Mondal, and R. Nasre, Mahtab: Phase-wise acceleration of regression testing for C, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 158, December 2019, 110403 (2019).
  7. A. Gambi, J. Bell and A. Zeller, Practical Test Dependency Detection, 2018 IEEE 11th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), Västerås, Sweden, 2018, pp. 1-11.
  8. S. Yoo and M. Harman. 2012. Regression testing minimization, selection and prioritization: a survey. Softw. Test. Verif. Reliab. 22, 2 (March 2012), 67–120.
  9. W. E. Wong, R. Gao, Y. Li, R. Abreu and F. Wotawa, A Survey on Software Fault Localization, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 707-740, 1 Aug. 2016.
  10. S. Elbaum, A. G. Malishevsky and G. Rothermel, Test case prioritization: a family of empirical studies, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 159-182, Feb. 2002.
  11. A. Orso and G. Rothermel. 2014. Software testing: a research travelogue (2000–2014). In Future of Software Engineering Proceedings (FOSE 2014).
  12. Z. Liu and S. Wang. 2020. How far we have come: testing decompilation correctness of C decompilers. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2020).
  13. R. Paleari, L. Martignoni, G. F. Roglia, and D. Bruschi. 2010. N-version disassembly: differential testing of x86 disassemblers. In Proceedings of the 19th international symposium on Software testing and analysis (ISSTA '10). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 265–274.

Evaluation

Grading Policy

Timeline 

• L: 5 (slides), 9 (slides), 12 (slides, codes), 16 (slides), 19 (slides), 23 (slides, cs434-srs), 30 (slides)
• T: 8 (set-iitgn-vm, hands-on), 15 (hands-on, codes), 22 (hands-on, codes, minecpp), 29 (hands-on)

• L: 2 (slides), 6 (slides), 9 (slides, tool), 13 (slides), 16 (slides), 27 (slides)
• T: 5 (hands-on, codes), 12 (Q2. tutorial 4 - Jan 29), 26 (demo, tool)

• L: 1 (recap), 5 (slides), 12 (slides), 19 (slides), 22 (slides1, slides2)
• T: 4 (project), 11, 18 (project)

• L: 2 (slides1, slides2, codes), 5 (tool-demo), 9 (slides1, slides2, slides3, codes)
• T: 1 (project), 8 (project)