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19-Soft-A6 Software Quality Assurance: December 2014

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  1. Question 1 SQA vs. SQC, Cost of Quality, and Quality Measures
  2. Question 2 FTR Objectives, Agile, and FTR in Waterfall vs. Agile
  3. Question 3 Integration Testing Strategies and Regression Testing
  4. Question 4 White-Box and Black-Box Unit Testing Techniques
  5. Question 5 Black-Box Test of the authorISBN Table
  6. Question 6 Basis Path Testing of fn_delete_element
  7. Question 7 Verification vs. Validation; System, Alpha, Beta, and Pilot Testing
  8. Question 8 SQA and Configuration Management in Concurrent and Agile Development

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National Exams, December 2014 — 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. 3 (agile and concurrent process models), Ch. 15 (SQA, cost of quality, configuration management), Ch. 17–18 (unit/integration/validation/system testing strategy, verification vs. validation), 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, Software Testing KA, and Software Configuration Management KA; ISO/IEC 25010 (SQuaRE) for the product quality model; ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 (Software life cycle processes) for the SQA and configuration management process framework referenced in Questions 1 and 8.