ECE 653Software Testing, Quality Assurance and Maintenance

Units: 0.50
Level: Graduate
Faculty: Engineering
Subject: Electrical and Computer Engineering

When it runs

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Introduces students to systematic testing of software systems. Software verification, reviews, metrics, quality assurance, and prediction of software reliability and availability. Students are expected to have programming experience with reading and writing code for large projects.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Corequisites

Complete 1 of the following
- Completed or concurrently enrolled in:
  - ECE650 - Methods and Tools for Software Engineering (0.50)
- Completed or concurrently enrolled in:
  - ECE750

Antirequisites

Complete all of the following
- Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:
  - CS647 - Software Testing, Quality Assurance and Maintenance (0.50)
- Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in:

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

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From 3 ratings and 1 comment on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

I came into this course expecting practical and large-scale testing of enterprise-level systems, but the course content is instead focused on theory such as formal methods and very very very simple programs (on the level of 1 while loop and if statements). The course is almost equivalent to CS 447/647, SE 465, and ECE 453, but also includes a course project (10+ page report) and a closed-book final. Lecture videos and notes from a previous offering can be found on YouTube in case you miss classes. The content is easy to follow along with, but can get dry at times. Unfortunately the assignments can be quite time-consuming, especially the Python coding part where you build on the WLANG…

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Fall 2023

Dec 14, 2023 ECE653 final exam 5 points, 1 comment

u/Glittering-Garden-80: “Only sleep for 2h last night preparing for exam, and the exam is 1000% impossible to finish, is extremely harder than assignment question without access to course material, thank you prof bring the nightmare to all 150 stduents”

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Winter 2020

Apr 19, 2020 Anyone have experience with ECE653 or its offshoots CS447/ECE453/CS647/SE465 0 points, 1 comment

u/Hadokuv: “I'm picking courses for next semester. I'm an ECE grad student and this weird monstrosity of a course is one of the only software courses that are available that I'd be ok taking with just online delivery. Has anyone taken it and have some insight into it? …”

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In 27 terms, Fall 2011 to Winter 2024