Software development process/methods

What methods or tools are you familiar with that facilitate requirements elicitation, specification and decomposition?

Management of QA and Software Testing

Use Equivalence Class partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis (which means to test the input at the boundary of the equivalence class partition) to analyze the valid and invalid inputs for Microsoft WinWord or any other software package that you have installed on your computer. Please view the attached document for full description of the problem.

Quality Assurance for Web Services

Carry out a test on www.hi5.com web site. Prepare a report on your testing findings. Please view the attached document for full description of the problem.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing from the QA viewpoint.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing from the QA viewpoint. This deals with the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing, which has become one of the hot issues today from the viewpoint of Quality Assurance. Are we compromising quality at the expense of cost?

Design a plan to convert software without a large cost

Download a shareware version of some commercial software. Design a plan for converting the shareware version to a full version without paying one cent. If it is not possible for the shareware to be converted to a full version, analyze what kind of techniques the software vendor has used to protect it. (You may use your intuition, since you cannot really test it in detail.) In addition, use the techniques to do some black-box testing on the software and report your results in the report.