Quality Assurance and Testing

About this programme

No fees are charged for EU and EEA citizens, Swedish residence permit holders and exchange students. - Definitions of software quality assurance, quality attributes, software metrics and models in quality management, internal quality and external quality; - Definitions and differences between software verification and validation approaches; - Definitions and practical application of software testing techniques and approaches related to test planning, design, execution and analysis. The course will prepare the students to work as quality or test engineers (or managers) in software development organizations. To be eligible for the course, the student should have a bachelor´s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or equivalent. In addition, the student should have completed courses in: - Programming (e.g. DIT042 Object-oriented Programming, DIT012 Imperative Programming with Basic Object-orientation, DIT143 Functional Programming or equivalent) and - Practical software development or software engineering project (e.g. DIT212 Objectoriented programming project, or DIT543 Software Engineering Project). Applicants must prove knowledge of English: English 6/English level 2 or the equivalent level of an internationally recognized test, for example TOEFL, IELTS. Selection is based upon the number of credits from previous university studies, maximum 285 credits