Application Development, Testing, and Quality Assurance
Help develop the vision and skills to design, implement, and evaluate programs to solve business problems and meet stakeholders’ needs. This concentration teaches the latest quality-assurance procedures and practices for measuring and improving the correctness, reliability, usability, and performance of organizational systems and processes.
In this concentration, you will:
- Study ways to write, test, debug, and maintain source code to meet a business application’s requirements.
- Explore various methods of testing during the software-development process.
- Study methods used to evaluate, design, and improve human-computer interfaces.
Completion Requirements
181 total quarter credit hours
- General Education courses (45 cr.)
- Core courses (90 cr.)
- Concentration courses (20 cr.)
- Portfolio course (1 cr.)
- Elective courses (20 cr.)
- Capstone course (5 cr.)
Estimated time to completion depends on individual progress and credits transferred. If you have an associate degree or credit from prior coursework, you may be able to transfer up to 135 quarter credits into this degree program.
IT Core Courses
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| ITEC 1010 | IT Infrastructure | 5 |
| ITEC 1020 | Networking Fundamentals | 5 |
| ITEC 1030 | Introduction to Programming | 5 |
| ITEC 2010 | Data Structures | 5 |
| ITEC 2020 | IT Theory Fundamentals | 5 |
| ITEC 2030 | Operating Systems Fundamentals and Administration | 5 |
| ITEC 2040 | Systems Analysis | 5 |
| ITEC 2050 | Systems Design | 5 |
| ITEC 2060 | Database Management Systems | 5 |
| ITEC 2070 | Human-Computer Interaction | 5 |
| ITEC 2080 | Web Programming | 5 |
| ITEC 3010 | Mobile and Emerging Technologies | 5 |
| ITEC 3020 | Computer Security Fundamentals | 5 |
| ITEC 3030 | Business Architecture and Process | 5 |
| ITEC 3040 | Project, Service, and Sourcing Management | 5 |
| ITEC 4010 | Network Administration | 5 |
| ITEC 4020 | Quality Management Standards for IT | 5 |
| ITEC 4030 | Systems Integration | 5 |
Concentration Courses
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| STAT 3401 | Statistical Concepts for Software Quality Assurance | 5 |
| ITEC 3402 | Server-Side and Multi-Tier Programming | 5 |
| ITEC 4401 | Software QA Testing and Test Tools | 5 |
| ITEC 4402 | User Interface Evaluation, Design and Development | 5 |
Portfolio Course
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| ITEC 1000 | Developing Student Portfolios for IT | 1 |
IT Electives Courses
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| ITEC 2001 | Technology and Society | 5 |
Capstone Course
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| ITEC 4901 | IT Capstone | 5 |
