MCCCD Program Description

Major: 5393 Catalog Year: 2023-2024 Effective Term: 2009 Fall Last Admit Term: 2014 Spring Award: AAS Total Credits: 12 CIP Code:	Primary College: Initiating College: Mesa Community College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific Program Availability: Field of Interest: Not Found Instructional Council: Business/Management (03) Computer Information System (12) GPA: 2.0
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Description: The Certificate of Completion (CCL)in Software Quality Assurance in quality and testing are an integral part of software design, development, and construction. The Software Quality Assurance program prepares students to work in a variety of environments. The program emphasizes the importance of quality control in the software environment, the tools used in a testing environment, and how to apply quality assurance concepts in the working environment. The program is designed for both people seeking to enter a career in software quality assurance as well as those already working in the field who wish to advance and update their knowledge and skills.

Required Courses

+ CIS244 Testing Software Tools 3
+ CIS246 Software Quality 3
+ CIS248 Engineering Quality in Software Development 3
+ CIS249 Software Testing for Quality Assurance 3

Credits: 12

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Program Competencies
1. Design, use, and explain software-testing tools for testing computing coding. (CIS244) 2. Describe the basic concepts of software quality and identify metrics specifically related to quality, costs and schedules related to software quality (CIS246) 3. Describe and explain the various techniques to improve software quality including: analyzing requirements, effective designs, unit test, static analysis, and code inspections. (CIS248) 4. Analyze test results for software quality including test planning, risk analysis, and test management practices. (CIS249)
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites. ++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected. MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: November 24, 2009

All information published is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, but based on the dynamic nature of the curricular process, course and program information is subject to change in order to reflect the most current information available.