Software Quality Assurance MCQ Questions Answers

1. What is UAT?

2. What type of testing is focused on testing the requirements of the software?

3. The testing technique that requires devising test cases to demonstrate that each program function is operational is called ____________ testing.

4. Test Heuristics are...

5. Which of the following should NOT normally be an objective for a test?

6. The cyclomatic complexity metric provides the designer with information regarding the number of:

7. Change request logged by a user is usually re-categorized as a defect when:

8. True or False? Attempts to apply mathematical proof to demonstrate that a program conforms to its specifications are doomed to failure.

9. True or False? The cyclomatic complexity of a program can be computed directly from a PDL representation of an algorithm without drawing a program flow graph.

10. Data flow testing is a control structure testing technique where the criteria used to design test cases is that they:

11. Which of the following is NOT a goal specifically related to configuration management?

12. What types of errors are missed by black-box testing and can be uncovered by white-box testing?

13. What are the levels of the CMMI quality model?

14. What Is selenium

15. Cyclomatic Complexity method comes under which testing method

16. What is session based testing?

17. Loop testing is a control structure testing technique where the criteria used to design test cases is that they:

18. What aspects of software does white box testing examine?

19. The main disadvantage of using PC-based emulators for mobile testing is:

20. True or False? Program flow graphs are identical to program flowcharts.

21. Condition testing is a control structure testing technique where the criteria used to design test cases is that they:

22. Which acceptance testing is most commonly performed by the customer in a controlled environment at the developer's site?

23. Which of the following is NOT an iterative software lifecycle?

24. UX Stands for _____________

25. Black-box testing attempts to find errors in which of the following categories:

26. Alpha tests differ from Beta tests in that:

27. What is a walkthrough?

28. Defect's (bug's) Severity and Priority differ in that:

29. What is HTSM?

30. What is 'Equivalence Classes'?

31. Under Six Sigma what is the correct Software Process Cycle?

32. The following test will be characteristic of which test type (test class/category): Making sure that it takes no more than three minutes for a novice user to fill out the form before clicking [Submit] -

33. Production defects are usually discovered by:

34. Systems are audited after implementation to determine whether or not the system met certain standards. This is an example of:

35. What is boundary value analysis?

36. Which of the following should NOT be present during an inspection?

37. The main role of QA analysts / test engineers during release reviews is:

38. What is the advantage of top-down versus bottom-up integration testing?

39. One of the method to do mobile test automation is instrumentation: remote control of the app-under-test without the possibility to control remotely the operating system of the mobile device. What is one of the major shortcomings of this method?

40. What is the difference between process and procedure?

41. The main purpose of a ____________ is to approve or reject all change requests.

42. Change Requests differs from Defects in that:

43. Testing for the retirement of the system which includes Data migration or archiving is called as

44. True or False? Graph-based testing methods can only be used for object-oriented systems.

45. Which of the following is NOT a feature of quality software?

46. Which type of test design techniques does the following statement best describe a procedure to derive test cases based on the specification of a component?

47. Tracing eye movements is a technique characteristic of:

48. Which of the following is NOT an example of a configuration control software?

49. What is Retesting

50. It is NOT advisable to automate tests that are:

51. Which type of test includes how well a user will be able to understand and interact with the system?

52. What is boundary value analysis

53. In order to reflect the current quality status of the system-under-test (how good/bad things are), the most useful metric is:

54. Which of the following is typically NOT included in a test plan?

55. Traceability of Test Cases to Requirements is necessary in order to:

56. To discover memory leaks, we need to execute tests that:

57. Which of the following stages is NOT part of the SDLC?

58. The testing technique that requires devising test cases to exercise the internal logic of a software module is called ____________ testing.

59. The approach a QA manager would take to reduce the incidence of failure due to defects is to:

60. Which SDLC model requires Testing Activities to start along with Development activities?

61. What is TDD or Test Driven Development?

62. True or False? Software Quality Assurance is the framework for independent assessment and insight into software development processes and products.

63. A ____________ is a document detailing a systematic approach to testing a system or piece of software.

64. A self-contained subdivision of a program that may be separately compiled is referred to as a:

65. Which of these is a load testing tool?

66. What is the correct order of the waterfall model phases?

67. Who is NOT involved in developing a software testing strategy?

68. Which of the following would be considered Priority 1 for Software Quality Assurance?

69. What is the relationship between Quality Assurance and software testing?

70. True or False? Client/server architectures cannot be properly tested because network load is highly variable.

71. A _________ is a formal proposal for an alteration to a system or software.

72. A set of planned activities that are necessary to provide confidence that the software conforms to requirements is ___________________.

73. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Software Testers do not do the same tasks.

74. The ISO quality assurance standard that applies to software engineering is:

75. You have a set of data (1, 0, 3, 22, apple, zero, !) What sign should you put between 0 and 1 ?

76. True or False? Orthogonal array testing enables the test designer to maximize the coverage of the test cases devised for relatively small input domains.

77. Which of the following is NOT a quality factor that should be considered when developing software?

78. Testing that ignores the internal mechanism or structure of a system and focuses on the outputs is:

79. The following is an example of which type/class of testing: Shutting down the power on the database server during batch update.

80. Which of the following is NOT a quality model?

81. Unit testing is usually done as:

82. True or False? The testing environment does not need to track changes in configuration as it is not a production environment.

83. True or False? Boundary value analysis can only be used to do white-box testing.

84. Which of the following should NOT be considered when performing unit testing?

85. Which of the following are characteristics of testable software?

86. Which of the following testing methods is NOT based on any knowledge of internal design or code?

87. Which of the following is NOT a section in the standard for SQA plans recommended by IEEE?

88. What is the CMMI?

89. What is the purpose of an inspection?

90. Static and dynamic analysis have same objectives?

91. Which of the following is a technique used in security testing:

92. Types of UAT

93. Software reliability problems can almost always be traced to:

94. True or False? Equivalence testing divides the input domain into classes of data from which test cases can be derived to reduce the total number of test cases that must be developed.

95. In relation to software quality, what does SCM stand for?

96. Which of the following is an approach for Integration Testing?

97. Which test is OFTEN the responsibility of the customers or users of the system?

98. Unit tests are usually conducted by:

99. A Test Plan is a document describing the ____________ of intended testing activities.

100. When running a testplan which of following should be tracked?