Software Testing Quiz # 3

If a input box accepts value of range 1-1000, then the following answers are FALSE if using EP technique

valid value from range 1 - 10000

all of these

invalid value below 1

invalid value above 1000

Elements of an excellent tester include ____

(none of these)

Can delegate testing work back into the development team

Lazy enough to not want to do things more than once

Can stay up all night in crunch time

Which of the following is not a type of performance testing?

Load testing

Beta testing

Configuration testing

Stress testing

______ tests how well the user will be able to understand and interact with the system.

Alpha Testing

Beta Testing

Usability Testing

User Acceptance Testing

Which of the following is NOT true?

Acceptance tests check client-defined requirements and scenarios the product must meet

In TDD, tests are written even before the code

Performance is one of the things functional tests must check

A test suite is a collection of test cases

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a good test case?

The test case has a high probability of finding an error.

The test case tests invalid inputs.

The test case is neither too simple nor too complex.

The test case is dependent on other test cases.

Which is not part of a test plan?

Roles and Responsibilities

Test Templates

Retrospect report

(all of these)

Test Schedule

Which of the following is NOT an activity completed during test planning?

Create test cases

Preparation of test strategy document

Test effort estimation

Test tool selection

True or false. Once all the bugs are fixed, ship the product.

False

True

What is a browser matrix?

a committed document between management and testing about which browsers and screen sizes are supported

a list of browsers that each tester needs to have in their office

something that can wait until the last sprint

a list of browsers that could be tested on

Which Software Development Life Cycle model requires testing activities to start at the same time as development activities?

Spiral model

Waterfall model

Linear model

V model

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of blackbox testing?

Testing can help optimize the code.

Testing can find discrepancies between the software and the specifications.

Test cases can be written as soon as the functional specification is complete.

Testers can be non-technical.

________ is the degree to which a piece of software can be tested.

Test Planning

Software Quality

Test Risk

Testability

What is reliability testing?

A test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met

A field of testing in which deals with testing a software's ability to function under given environmental conditions for a particular amount of time

An assessment that requires an examinee to actually perform a task or activity, rather than simply answering questions referring to specific parts

A field of testing in which deals with testing a software's ability to function for a particular amount of time

True or False? Instrumentation is performed by coverage measurement tools in pre-compiler pass.

True

False

5th Level in TMM

Definition

Integration

Optimisation

measurement

True or false? Ajax enabling a website increases the number of server requests.

FALSE

True

What is a branch?

Deviation of the software from its expected delivery or service

A conditional transfer of control from any statement to any other statement in a component

Operational testing at a site not otherwise involved with the software developers

a mechanism to produce the expected outcomes to compare with the expected outcomes of the Software Under Test (SUT)

A program point where the control flow has two or more alternative routes is known as what?

A decision

An incident

A route gate

A driver

A tester needs to think like _____

(all of these choices)

a developer

a business owner

an end user

Which of these instances of finding a software defect will result in the least loss of time and money to fix?

A bug in the design is found during design review

The customer finds the defect in production

QA Engineer finds the bug a day before releasing

A peer finds the bug during code review

The developer finds the bug during Sanity Testing

When a new testing tool is purchased, it should be used first by:

The independent testing team

Everyone who may eventually have some use for the tool

A small team to establish the best way to use the tool

The vendor contractor to write the initial scripts

Using Performance Tests to project server specs and server scale requires:

you to run the load test and monitor resource usage and rescale according to hardware differences

you to run each function in loops in isolation and apply resource usage to the projected load

This isn't a function of performance tests

you to run code coverage tests with resource monitoring and adjust to the projected load

True or false? Simultaneous execution is a minor effect in performance testing.

TRUE

False

Load Testing is ______

both I and III

II. creating a giant load to find where the system falls apart

I. modelling a typical day of user activity

III. modelling the user activity on a busy traffic day

Which of the following is NOT a reason to perform stress testing?

The user interface must be intuitive.

The testing is trying to find race conditions and deadlocks.

The software is considered “mission critical”.

The typical load of the software is unknown at the time of testing.

Stress testing should start ______.

immediately on day one

the week before ship

immediately following integration

immediately following unit test complete

Which of these are NOT phases of the "IDEAL" organizational improvement model?

Imagining

Establishing

Diagnosing

Acting

TMM Means

Testing Management Model

Testing measurement Model

Testing Maturity Model

__________ uses short development cycles where a test is written prior to code.

Agile Development

Software Engineering

Test Driven Development

Software Development