ITO5171 Software testing, quality and standards
Faculty of Information Technology
ITO5171 Software testing, quality and standards is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Information Technology. It isn't offered in 2025. It needs ITO5136 and ITO4132.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Other periods
- Monash Online
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ITO5171
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ITO5171
No unit lists ITO5171 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Overview
This unit covers the core software engineering disciplines concerned with managing and delivering quality software. Topics include processes, tools and techniques for system validation and verification, including major commercial tools used in industry. It shows how to detect, analyse and control defects in complex software systems. Inspection and testing methodologies, analysis of artefacts, robustness, quality assurance, and advanced software validation and verification methods are covered.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching period 1 | Monash Online | Mo |
| Teaching period 5 | Monash Online | Mo |
Assessment
- Commandle - requirements gathering and test suite development.Project40%
- Commandle - testingProject60%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
explain the importance of quality assurance in software engineering; articulate the role of validation and verification methods in the system development life cycle; key issues in software testing, testing levels and testing techniques;
- 2
categorise and apply selection and combination of techniques and test related measures;
- 3
measure, evaluate and analyse software under test using different quality and complexity metrics;
- 4
develop adequate test cases to help detect software system defects using industry-strength IDEs, unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, code coverage tools such as Cobertura, and other similar products;
- 5
implement continuous integration (CI) at unit, integration & system testing level using a CI server such as Jenkins to automatically run regression test suites on the system under test.
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachOnline learning
A minimum of 144 hours over the 6 week teaching period should be used to complete assignments, participating in discussions, private study and revision.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Charith Kohomban Wickrama Jayasekara