ISTQB Question Bank 741 to 780

Consider the following activities that might relate to configuration management:

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I. Identify and document the characteristics of a test item

II. Control changes to the characteristics of a test item

III. Check a test item for defects introduced by a change

IV. Record and report the status of changes to test items

V. Confirm that changes to a test item fixed a defect

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Which of the following statements is true?

• Only I is a configuration management task.

• All are configuration management tasks.

• I, II and III are configuration management tasks.

• I, II and IV are configuration management tasks.

A test plan included the following clauses among the exit criteria:

• II, III and IV are possible explanations, but I and V are not possible.

• All five are possible explanations.

• I, IV and V are possible explanations, but II and III are not possible.

• III, IV and V are possible explanations, but I and II are not possible.

What is the most important factor for successful performance of reviews?

• A separate scribe during the logging meeting
• Trained participants and review leaders
• The availability of tools to support the review process
• A reviewed test plan

Consider the following statements about maintenance testing:

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I. It requires both re-test and regression test and may require additional new tests.

II. It is testing to show how easy it will be to maintain the system.

III. It is difficult to scope and therefore needs careful risk and impact analysis.

IV. It need not be done for emergency bug fixes.

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Which of the statements are true?

• I and III

• I and IV

• II and III

• II and IV

Which of the following statements are correct?

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I. Software testing can be required to meet legal or contractual requirements.

II. Software testing is mainly needed to improve the quality of the developer's work.

III. Rigorous testing can help to reduce the risk of problems occurring in an operational environment.

IV. Rigorous testing is used to prove that all failures have been found.

• I and III

• II and III

• II and IV

• III and IV

Which two specification-based testing techniques are most closely related to each other?

• Decision tables and state transition testing
• Equivalence partitioning and state transition testing
• Decision tables and boundary value analysis
• Equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis

Which of the following is an advantage of independent testing?

• Independent testers don’t have to spend time communicating with the project team.
• Programmers can stop worrying about the quality of their work and focus on producing more code.
• The others on a project can pressure the independent testers to accelerate testing at the end of the schedule.
• Independent testers sometimes question the assumptions behind requirements, designs and implementations.

DDP formula that would apply for calculating DDP for the last level of testing prior to release to the field is

• DDP = {Defects (Testers) � Defects (Field)} / Defects (Testers)
• DDP = {Defects (Testers) + Defects (Field)} / Defects (Testers)
• DDP = Defects (Testers) / {Defects (Field) + Defects (Testers)}
• DDP = Defects (Testers) / {Defects (Field) – Defects (Testers)}

What would trigger the execution of maintenance testing?

• Inspection results and modification.
• Migration and inspection results.
• Migration and retirement of the system.
• Alpha testing results and migration.

Popular specification-based techniques are:

• Equivalence partitioning
• Boundary value analysis
• Decision tables
• All three described above