ISTQB Foundation - Chapter 1 - Quiz

A company recently purchased a commercial off-the-shelf application to automate their bill-paying process. They now plan to run an acceptance test against the package prior to putting it into production. Which of the following is their most likely reason for testing?

• To build confidence in the application

• To detect bugs in the application

• To gather evidence for a lawsuit

• To train the users

According to the ISTQB glossary, the word "bug" is synonyms with which of the following word?

• Incident

• Defect

• Mistake

• Error

According to the ISTQB glossary, a risk relates to which of the following?

• Negative feedback to the tester

• Negative consequences that will occur

• Negative consequences that could occur

• Negative consequences for the test object

Ensuring that test design starts during the requirements definition phase is important to enable which of the following test objective?

• Preventing defects in the system

• Finding defects through dynamic testing

• Gaining confidence in the system

• Finishing the project on time

A test team consistently finds between 90% and 95% of the defects present in the system under test. While the test manager understands that this is a good defect-detection percentage for her test team and industry, senior management and executives remain disappointed in the test group, saying that the test team misses too many bugs. Which of the following test principles is most likely to help the test manager explain to these managers and executives why some defects are likely to be missed ?

• Exhaustive testing is impossible

• Defect clustering

• Pesticide paradox

• Absence of error fallacy

According to the ISTQB glossary, regression testing is required for what purpose?

• To verify the success of corrective actions

• To prevent a task from being incorrectly considered completed

• To ensure that defects have not been introduced by a modification

• To motivate better unit testing by the programmers

Which of the following is most important to promote and maintain good relation between testers and developers?

• Understanding what managers value about testing

• Explaining test results in a neutral fashion

• Identifying potential customer work-around for bugs

• Promoting better quality software whenever possible

Which of the statements below is the best assessment of how the test principles apply across the test life-cycle?

• Test principles only affect the preparation for testing

• Test principles only affect test execution activities

• Test principles affect the early test activities such as reivew

• Test principles affect activities throughout the test lifecycle

What is NOT a reason for testing?

• To enable developers to code as quickly as possible

• To reduce the risk of failures in operation

• To contribute to the quality of the components or systems

• To meet any applicable contractual or legal requirements

Which statement about quality assurance (QA) is true?

• QA and testing are the same

• QA includes both testing and root cause analysis

• Testing is quality control, not QA

• QA does not apply to testing