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19-Soft-A6 Software Quality Assurance: December 2013

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  1. Question 1 SQA Fundamentals
  2. Question 2 SQA Activities, Agile, and Waterfall vs Agile
  3. Question 3 Testing Strategies, Drivers, and Stubs
  4. Question 4 Unit Testing Techniques and Equivalence Classes
  5. Question 5 Black-Box Test of an Access-Control Unit
  6. Question 6 Basis Path Testing of the Appendix A Property Database
  7. Question 7 Verification vs. Validation; System, Alpha, and Beta Testing
  8. Question 8 Test Automation and Version Control

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National Exams, December 2013 — 04-Soft-A6, Software Quality Assurance (open book, non-communicating calculator permitted, 3 hours). Per the paper's own notes, FIVE of the EIGHT questions constitute a complete exam and each is of equal value; all eight are answered in full below as a complete study resource.

Reference texts. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 9th ed., Ch. 15 (SQA), Ch. 17–18 (unit/integration/validation/system testing strategy), Ch. 19–20 (white-box basis-path testing, black-box equivalence partitioning & boundary value analysis); Sommerville, Software Engineering, 10th ed., Ch. 8 (Software Testing) and Ch. 24 (Quality Management); SWEBOK v4, Software Quality KA and Software Testing KA; ISO/IEC 25010 (SQuaRE) for the software product quality model referenced in Question 1; ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 (Software life cycle processes) for the process-standard referenced in Question 1(b).