Software testing - Fundamentals of testing

According to the ISTQB Glossary, the word 'bug' is synonymous with which of the following words?

• 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 objectives?

• Preventing defects in the system.

• Finding defects through dynamic testing.

• Gaining confidence in the system.

• Finishing the project on time.

What are good practices for testing within the development life cycle?

• Early test analysis and design.

• Different test levels are defined with specific objectives.

• Testers will start to get involved as soon as coding is done.

• A and B above.

Which of the following is a test type?

• Component testing

• Functional testing

• System testing

• Acceptance testing

Which of the following is a nonfunctional quality characteristic?

• Feasibility

• Usability

• Maintenance

• Regression

Which of these is a functional test?

• Measuring response time on an on-line booking system.

• Checking the effect of high volumes of traffic in a call-center system.

• Checking the on-line bookings screen information and the database contents against the information on the letter to the customers.

• Checking how easy the system is to use.

A regression test:

• Is only run once.

• Will always be automated.

• Will check unchanged areas of the software to see if they have been affected.

• Will check changed areas of the software to see if they have been affected.

Non-functional testing includes

• Testing to see where the system does not function correctly.

• Testing the quality attributes of the system including reliability and usability.

• Gaining user approval for the system.

• Testing a system feature using only the software required for that function.

Beta testing is

• Performed by customers at their own site.

• Performed by customers at the software developer's site.

• Performed by an independent test team.

• Useful to test software developed for a specific customer or user.