Session Section 4

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October 2006

Aberdeen Global IT Team

ISTQB CTFL Study Session Section 4


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Overview

Introductions

Review of Section 4 Practice Quiz

Open Forum


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Introductions

Name

Tenure With Firm

Primary Job Function(s)

Testing Tools Used


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1. Condition coverage checks each of the ways that the conditioncan be made true or false.

a. True

b. False

a. True

Testing Computer Software, chapter 3, p.44

Syllabus Section 4.1


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2. Which of the items listed below is not a test case that coverscertain test condition(s)?

a. A set of requirements

b. A set of input values

c. Execution preconditions

d. Execution post conditions

a. A set of requirements

Syllabus Section 4.1 Identifying test conditions and designing test cases, p.34.


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3. Which does not fall under test design specifications?

a. Specification identifier

b. Features to be tested

c. Approach refinements

d. Test identification

e. Test items

e. Test items




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4. What will you put in the result column if the functionality under atest works correctly but causes an incorrectly spelled errormessage to be displayed?

a. Warn

b. Pass

c. Fail

d. None of the above

a. Warn

Managing the Testing Process, chapter 3, p.86.



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5. Behavioral testing involves a detailed understanding of:

a. The application domain

b. The business problem being solved

c. The mission the system serves

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

Managing the Testing Process, chapter 1, p.3



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6. Black box testing is:

a. Functional testing

b. Structural testing

c. Performance testing

d. Requirements testing

a. Functional testing




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7. Which of these characteristics make a test not equivalent?

a. They all test the same thing

b. They involve the same input variables

c. They involve cases with small differences between inputs

d. They affect the same output variables

c. They involve cases with small differences between inputs


Syllabus Section 4.3.1


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8. Anything that makes the program change its behavior marks theboundary between two classes?

a. True

b. False

a. True

Testing Computer Software. Chapter 1, p.5



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9. A decision table is:

a. A table that shows what the program will do under any combination of relevant events

b. A table that shows the programs logic

c. Similar to a decision tree in the way that it lists information

d. All of the above

d. All of the above




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10. Which of the following is not appropriate for testing interactionsbetween paths?

a. Path that people are particularly likely to follow

b. Choices at one menu level or data entry screen can affect the presentation of choiceselsewhere

c. Test reaction to all combinations of valid and invalid inputs

d. Randomly select different paths in each test cycle

c. Test reaction to all combinations of valid and invalid inputs




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11. Select the criteria(s) that is not used for path testing:

a. Line coverage

b. Requirements coverage

c. Branch (or complete) coverage

d. Condition coverage

b. Requirements coverage




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12. For which of the following test cases does test coverageanalysis not assign the highest priority?

a. The ones that cover the most important quality risk

b. The ones that cover the requirements

c. The ones that cover the functions

d. The ones that cover conditions

d. The ones that cover conditions




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13. Structural tests find bugs in low-level operations such as:

a. Lines of codes

b. Database schemas

c. Data flow and integrity

d. a & b

d. a & b




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14. Beta testing is one of the techniques used for configurationcoverage.

a. True

b. False

a. True




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15. White box testing is a kind of testing that a programmer doesduring coding.

a. True

b. False

a. True




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16. What is the main characteristic of the best tester?

a. The one who finds the most bugs

b. The one who embarrasses the most programmers

c. The one who gets the most bugs fixed

d. a & c

c. The one who gets the most bugs fixed




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17. Testers miss many failures because they do not read the______ carefully.

a. Output

b. Input

c. Test condition(s)

d. a & b

a. Output




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18. Use cases, often referred to as ______, are very useful fordesigning acceptance tests with customer/user participation.

a. Scenarios

b. Business processes

c. Test components

d. Conditions

a. ScenariosSyllabus Section 4.3.5 Use case testing, p.37


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19. A structured approach to the error guessing technique is toenumerate a list of possible errors and to design tests thatattack these errors.

a. True

b. False

a. TrueSyllabus Section 4.5 Experience-based techniques, p.39


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20. Select the use cases criteria(s) that satisfy the user goals of theprimary actors.

a. Choose the system boundary

b. Finding Primary Actors

c. Finding Primary Goals

d. All of the above

d. All of the aboveReference material Use-case model: Writing requirements in context, chapter 6.9, p.63



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