Papers Q. 501 to 510

Q.: Which of the following statements is MOST OFTEN true?
A. Source-code inspections are often used in component testing.
B. Component testing searches for defects in programs that are separately testable.
C. Component testing is an important part of user acceptance testing.
D. Component testing aims to expose problems in the interactions between software and hardware components.
 B is correct 
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Q.: Which of the following is an objective of a pilot project for the introduction of a testing tool?
A. Evaluate testers� competence to use the tool.
B. Complete the testing of a key project.
C. Assess whether the benefits will be achieved at reasonable cost.
D. Discover what the requirements for the tool are.
C is correct  
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Q.: What  is  an  informal  test  design  technique  where  a  tester  uses  information  gained  while  testing  to  design  new  and  better  tests?
A. Error  guessing
B. Exploratory  testing
C. Use  case  testing
D. Decision  table  testing
B is correct
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Q.: Which of the following is determined by the level of product risk identified?
A. Extent of testing.
B. Scope for the use of test automation.
C. Size of the test team.
D. Requirement for regression testing.
A is correct  
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Q.: When should testing be stopped?  
A. When all the planned tests have been run
B. When time has run out
C. When all faults have been fixed correctly
D. It depends on the risks for the system being tested
D is correct  
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Q.: Which of following statements is true? Select ALL correct options Regression testing should be performed: 
i Once a month
ii When a defect has been fixed
iii When the test environment has changed
iv When the software has changed 
A. ii and iv.
B. ii, iii and iv.
C. i, ii and iii.
D. i and iii.
B is correct  
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Q.: The following statements are used to describe the basis for creating test cases using either black or white box techniques: 
i Information about how the software is constructed.
ii Models of the system, software or components.
iii Analysis of the test basis documentation.
iv Analysis of the internal structure of the components.
Which combination of the statements describes the basis for black box techniques? 
A. ii and iii.
B. ii and iv.
C. i and iv.
D. i and iii.
A is correct  
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Q.: Which of the following requirements would be tested by a functional system test?  
A. The system must be able to perform its functions for an average of 23 hours 50 mins per day.
B. The system must perform adequately for up to 30 users.
C. The system must allow a user to amend the address of a customer.
D. The system must allow 12,000 new customers per year.
C is correct  
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 Q.: Based  on  the  error  guessing  test  design  technique,  which  of  the  following  will  an experienced  tester  MOST  LIKELY  test  in  calendar  software? 
i. First  two  letters  of  the  month, e.g., MA  can  represent  March or  May
ii. First  letter  of the  day, e.g., T can mean  Tuesday  or  Thursday
iii. Leap year
iv. Number  of  days in a  month
v. Three-digit  days and  months
A. i, ii, iv and v
B. iii and iv
C. i, ii, iii and iv
D. i, ii and v
C is correct  
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Q.: Which of the following are valid objectives for incident reports? 
i. Provide developers and other parties with feedback about the problem to enable identification, isolation and correction as necessary.
ii. Provide ideas for test process improvement.
iii. Provide a vehicle for assessing tester competence.
iv. Provide testers with a means of tracking the quality of the system under test.  
A. i, ii, iii.
B. i, ii, iv.
C. i, iii, iv.
D. ii, iii, iv
  B is correct
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 Q.: From the below given choices, which one is the �Confidence testing�
A. Sanity testing
B. System testing
C. Smoke testing
D. Regression testing
C is correct
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Q.: What should be taken into account to determine when to stop testing?
I. Technical risk
II. Business risk
III Project constraints
IV Product documentation
A. I and II are true. III and N are false B. III is true, I, II, and IV are false
C. I, II, and IV are true; III is false
D. I, II, and III are true, IV is false
D is correct 
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Q.: The following code segment contains a potential "divide by 0" error.
J=50
K=1
while (N>=10) and (N<=10) loop
M [K] = J/N
K = K + 1
N = N 1
end loopWhich of the following is the most effective way of detecting this error?
A. Boundary testing
B. Condition testing
C. Compilation of the source code
D. Source code inspection
D is correct
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Q.: IEEE stands for:
A. Information Engineering Endeavoring to Excel
B. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
C. Institute of Education for E-commerce Entrepreneurs
D. Individual Excellence in Engineering Enterprises
B is correct  
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Q.: What are good practices for testing within the development life cycle?
A. Early test analysis and design.
B. Different test levels are defined with specific objectives.
C. Testers will start to get involved as soon as coding is done.
D. A and B above.
D is correct  
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Q.: Postal rates for 'light letters' are 25p up to 10g, 35p up to 50g plus an extra 10p for each additional 25g up to 100g. Which test inputs (in grams) would be selected using equivalence partitioning? 
A. 8, 42, 82, 102
B. 4, 15, 65, 92, 159
C. 10, 50, 75, 100
D. 5, 20, 40, 60, 80
B is correct  
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 Q.: Which of the following would structure-based test design techniques be most likely to be applied to? 1. Boundaries between mortgage interest rate bands.
2. An invalid transition between two different arrears statuses.
3. The business process flow for mortgage approval.
4. Control flow of the program to calculate repayments. 
A. 2, 3 and 4
B. 2 and 4
C. 3 and 4
D. 1,2 and 3
C is correct  
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Q.: Which of the following is the most important difference between the metrics-based approach and the expert-based approach to test estimation? 
A. The metrics-based approach is more accurate than the expert-based approach.
B. The metrics-based approach uses calculations from historical data while the expertbased approach relies on team wisdom.
C. The metrics-based approach can be used to verify an estimate created using the expert-based approach, but not vice versa.
D. The expert-based approach takes longer than the metrics-based approach.
B is correct  
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Q.: Which of these statements about functional testing is true? 
A. Structural testing is more important than functional testing as it addresses the code.
B. Functional testing is useful throughout the life cycle and can be applied by business analysts, testers, developers and users.
C. Functional testing is more powerful than static testing as you actually run the system and see what happens.
D. Inspection is a form of functional testing.
B is correct  
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 Q.: How is the scope of maintenance testing assessed? 
A. Scope is related to the risk, size of the changes and size of the system under test
B. Scope is defined by the size and type of system being changed
C. Scope is dependant on the amount of regression testing already performed
D. Scope is related to the number of system users affected by the change.
A is correct  
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