NPTEL Software Engineering Quiz D

Which one of the following is achieved by developing a sequence diagram during an object-oriented design process?

• Identification of object state behavior

• Determination of attributes of a class

• Determination of inheritance relationships among classes

• Responsibility assignment to classes

Pick the correct statement from the following.

• Every error causes a failure

• Every error causes a fault

• Every failure is caused by a fault

• Every bug causes a failure

Which one of the following is true concerning verification?

• Helps answer the question: “Have you built the right thing?”

• Checks the final product against the specification.

• Usually carried out by the test team.

• Checks whether an artifact produced in a phase conforms to the corresponding artifact produced in a previous phase.

Which one of the following can be inferred from the pesticide paradox?

• More number of bugs are detected towards the end of testing

• More severe bugs are detected towards the end of testing

• After a test methodology has been used to detect bugs, it becomes ineffective for detecting the remaining bugs

• A set of test methodologies should be applied again and again until most bugs are eliminated

Which one of the following does not serve as a guideline in identifying entity classes from a problem description?

• Entity classes usually appear as data stores in a DFD model

• Entity classes usually occur as group of objects that are aggregated

• The aggregator of the objects of an entity class corresponds to a register in the physical world

• Users are considered as entity classes

CRC cards are usually not much useful in performing which one of the following activities?

• Method identification

• Responsibility assignment

• Collaborator identification

• Class identification

Which one of the following is not true of monkey testing?

• Many program parts may not get tested

• Risky areas of a program may not get tested

• The tester can easily reproduce any failures

• Easy to generate test values

Which of the following, who conducts acceptance testing?

• The development team

• The test team

• A set of friendly clients

• Customer

Which one of the following is an example of a negative test case?

• A test designed to crash the software

• A test designed with negative integral values

• A test case causing software failure

• A test case with values outside the valid range of values

Which one of the following testing techniques is effective in testing whether a developed software meets its non-functional requirements?

• Path testing

• Dataflow testing

• Robust boundary-value testing

• Performance testing