CIS4150 Final study set

These are all the mutiple choice from the textbook

Bug discovery is a _______ goal of software testing.

Short-term

Customer satisfaction and risk management are _______ goals of software testing

Long-term

Reduced maintenance is a _______ goal of software testing.

Post-implementation

Software testing produces ______.

Reliability, Quality, Customer Satisfaction

Testing is the process of ______ errors

Finding

Complete testing is ______

Impossible

The domain of possible inputs to the software is too ______ to test.

Large

The set of invalid inputs is too ______ to test.

Large

Race conditions are among the ______ tested.

Least

Every design error ______ be found.

Cannot

Fault is synonymous with the word __________.

Defect

The inability of a system or component to perform a required function according to its specifi cation is called as __________.

Failure

Testware includes __________.

test planning document, test data, test specifications

Symptom(s) associated with a failure that alerts the user to the occurrence of a failure is called __________.

Incident

Testing process starts as soon as the __________ for the system are prepared

Specifications

Testing strategy should start at the __________ module level and expand towards the whole program.

Smallest

Testing is a ______ process

Planned

Planning the whole testing process into a well-planned series of steps is called _________.

Test strategy

The test strategy matrix is prepared using the __________.

test factor and test phase

The process of evaluating a system or component to determine whether the products of a given development phase satisfy the conditions imposed at the start of that phase is called __________.

Verification

The process of evaluating a system or component during or at the end of the development process to determine whether it satisfies the specified requirements is called __________.

Validation

In the early stages of SDLC, testing comprises more __________ activities and towards the later stages, the emphasis is on the __________ activities.

verification, validation

Technique for assessing the structural characteristics of source code, design specifications, or any notational representation that conforms to well-defined syntactic rules is called __________.

Black-Box Testing

Every design feature and its corresponding code is checked logically with every possible path execution in __________.

White-box testing

Which of the following is true?

Testing starts as soon as the SRS is prepared

V&V diagram includes

Both verification and validation

Which test plan is made corresponding to requirement gathering?

Acceptance test plan

Which test plan is made corresponding to requirement specifications?

System test plan

Which test plan is made corresponding to HLD?

Function & Integration test plan

Which test plan is made corresponding to LLD?

Unit test plan

In the V model of testing, the scope of verification from top to bottom

Decreases

For the verification of requirements, you must check for

Correctness, Ambiguity, Completeness

For the verification of high-level design, you must check

Data design, Architectural design, User interface design

For verifying architectural design, which is true?

- Check that every functional requirement in the SRS has been take care of in this design.

- Check whether all exceptions handling conditions have been taken care of.

- Check the inter-dependence and interface between the modules.

For verifying data design, you must check

- Sizes of data structure

- Overflow in a data structure

What is the relation between static and dynamic testing technique?

Independent

What is the proper sequence of various testing?

Unit testing, integration testing, function testing, system testing, acceptance testing

Black-box testing is a _______.

Dynamic testing

It has been observed that test cases, which are designed with boundary input values, have a _______ chance of finding errors.

High

How many test cases are there in BVC if there are 5 variables in a module?

21

How many test cases are there in robustness testing if there are 5 variables in a module?

31

How many test cases are there in worst-case testing if there are 4 variables in a module?

625

Each row of state table corresponds to _______.

State

Each column of state table corresponds to _______.

Input

Intersection of a row and a column specifies _______.

Transition and output

What are the components of a decision table?

Condition stub, Condition entry, Action stub

If there are k rules over n binary conditions, there are at least _______ test cases and at the most _______ test cases.

k, 2^n

Boundary value analysis and equivalence class partitioning methods do not consider _______.

Combinations of input conditions

White-box testing is _______ to black-box testing.

complementary

The effectiveness of path testing rapidly _______ as the size of software under test.

increases

A node with more than one arrow leaving it is called a _______

decision node

A node with more than one arrow entering it is called a _______

junction node

Areas bounded by edges and nodes are called _______

region

The length of a path is measured by the number of _______

links

An independent path is any path through the graph that introduces at least _______ new set of processing statements or new conditions.

1

The number of independent paths is given by _______.

V(G) = e - n + 2

According to Mill's Theorem, _______

V(G) = d + P

In data flow anomalies, dd is a _______

harmless bug

In data fl ow anomalies, du is a _______

normal case

In data fl ow anomalies, ku is a _______

serious bug

In single-character data anomalies, ~d is _______

normal situation

In single-character data anomalies, ~k is _______

potential bug

_______ is the strongest criterion for selecting test cases.

ADPU

In static testing, a bug is found at its _______ location.

Exact

Static testing can be applied for most of the _______ .

Verification activities

Formal peer evaluation of a software element whose objective is to verify that the software element satisfies its specifications and conforms to standards, is called _______ .

Inspections

The programmer or designer responsible for producing the program or document is known as _______ .

Author, Owner, Producer

The person who finds errors, omissions, and inconsistencies in programs and documents during an inspection is known as _______

Inspector

The inspection team points out any potential errors or problems found and records them in _______.

Log Form

'How much evaluation of an item has been done by the team' is called _______ .

None of the above

_______ is a more formal process.

Inspection

The efficiency of code coverage performed by dynamic testing _______ with the increase in size of the system

Decreases

Through the inspection process, the modules can be analysed based on _______.

Error-types and Error-density

The inspection in which the inspectors never have to simultaneously meet is known as _______.

FTArm

Checking phase has been introduced in _______.

Gilb Inspection

Analysis phase between preparation and meeting has been introduced in _______.

Humphrey's Inspection

Collation Phase has been introduced in _______.

N-fold Inspection

_______ process gives the chance to utilize human resources

Phased Inspection

A series of steps or procedures whose purpose is to guide an inspector in acquiring a deep understanding of the inspected software is known as _______.

Reading Techniques

_______ is a reading technique.

Usage-based method and Task-based method

A review is similar to an inspection or walkthrough, except that the review team also includes _______.

Management

_______ is not an inspection variant.

None of the above

Software validation is achieved through a series of _______ tests that demonstrate conformity with requirements.

black-box

Before we validate the entire software, _______ must be validated first.

modules

Unit tests ensure that the software meets at least a _______ of functionality prior to integration and system testing.

baseline level

Two types of interface modules which must be simulated, if required, to test the module are _______.

stubs and drivers

Overhead of stubs and drivers may increase the _______ of the entire software system

time and cost

Integration of modules is according to the _______ of software.

design

Recovery is the ability of a system to _______ operations after the integrity of the application has been lost.

restart

A system that meticulously records transactions and system states periodically so that these are preserved in case of a failure is called a _______.

checkpoint

Security requirements should be associated with each _______ requirement.

functional

Measures intended to allow the receiver to determine that the information which it receives has not been altered in transit is known as _____

integrity

The process of determining that a requester is allowed to receive a service or perform an operation is called _______.

authorization

A measure intended to prevent the later denial that an action happened, or a communication took place is called _______.

non-repudiation

The type of system testing related to a system's presentation rather than its functionality is called _______.

usability testing

A system test should not be performed by _______.

programmers and designers

Acceptance testing must occur at the _______ of the development process.

end

Top-down integration testing requires _______ stubs.

nodes - 1

Bottom-up integration testing requires _______ drivers.

nodes - leaves

Total number of sessions in decomposition-based integration testing is _______.

nodes - leaves + edges