Fundamentals of Testing

Which of the following statements is a valid objective for testing?

• The test should start as late as possible so that development had enough time to create a good product

• To validate whether the test object works as expected by the users and other stakeholders

• To prove that all possible defects are identified

• To prove that any remaining defects will not cause any failures

Which of the following statements correctly describes the difference between testing and debugging?

• Testing identifies the source of defects; debugging analyzes the defects and proposes prevention activities

• Dynamic testing shows failures caused by defects; debugging eliminates the defects, which are the source of failures

• Testing does not remove faults; but debugging removes defects that cause the faults

• Dynamic testing prevents the causes of failures; debugging removes the failures

Which of the following is a typical objective of testing?

• To find defects and failures

• To validate the project plan works as required

• Ensuring of complete testing

• Comparing actual results with expected results

In what way can testing be part of Quality Assurance?

• It ensures that requirements are detailed enough

• Testing reduces the risk of poor software quality

• It ensures that standards in the organization are followed

• It measures the quality of software in terms of number of executed test cases

What is quality?

• Activities focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled

• The degree to which a component or system satisfies the stated and implied needs of its various stakeholders

• The degree to which a component or system protects information and data so that persons or other components or systems have the degree of access appropriate to their types and levels of authorization

• The total costs incurred on quality activities and issues and often split into prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs and external failure costs

Bonus Question !!

What is the name of the coffee shop in the sitcom Friends?

• Birch Coffee

• Cafe Nervosa

• Central Perk

• Peach Pit

Programmers often write and execute unit tests against code which they have written. During this self-testing activity, which of the following is a tester mindset that programmers should adopt to perform this unit testing effectively?

• Good communication skills

• Code coverage

• Evaluating code defects

• Attention to detail

Bonus Question!!!

Name Pixar’s first feature-length movie?

• Luca

• A Bug's Life

• Toy Story

• Monsters, Inc.

A product owner says that your role as a tester on an Agile team is to catch all the bugs before the end of each iteration. Which of the following is a testing principle that could be used to respond to this (false) statement?

• Defect clustering

• Testing shows the presence of defects

• Absence of error fallacy

• Root cause analysis

As a result of risk analysis, more testing is being directed to those areas of the system under test where initial testing found more defects than average. Which of the following testing principles is being applied?

• Beware of the pesticide paradox

• Testing is context dependent

• Absence-of-errors is a fallacy

• Defects cluster together