Chapter 7: Software Testing Practice Questions and Answers
1. When testing a grade calculation system, a tester determines that all scores from 80 to 100 will yield a grade of A, but scores below 80 will not. This analysis is known as:
- A. Equivalence partitioning
- B. Boundary value analysis
- C. Decision table
- D. Hybrid analysis
2. What is the concept of introducing a small change to the program and having the effects of that change show up in some test?
- A. Introducing mutations
- B. Performance testing
- C. A mutation error
- D. Debugging a program
3. Test charters are used in testing
- A. Exploratory testing
- B. Usability testing
- C. Component testing
- D. Maintainability testing
4. Big bang approach is related to
- A. Regression testing
- B. Inter system testing
- C. Re-testing
- D. Integration testing
5. Testing of software used to convert data from existing systems for use in Replacement systems
- A. Data driven testing
- B. Migration testing
- C. Configuration testing
- D. Back to back testing
6. Which is not the testing objectives ?
- A. Finding defects
- B. Gaining confidence about the level of quality and providing information
- C. Preventing defects
- D. Debugging defects
7. Contract and regulation testing is a part of ?
- A. System testing
- B. Acceptance testing
- C. Integration testing
- D. Smoke testing
8. Which is not a testing principle ?
- A. Early testing
- B. Defect clustering
- C. Pesticide paradox
- D. Exhaustive testing
Answers
1. A, 2. A, 3. A, 4. D, 5. B, 6. D, 7. B, 8. D,