Software Testing in Software Engineering Chapter 5
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Which of the following is the primary goal of software testing?

  • Ensuring the code does what it was designed to do and nothing unintended (correct)
  • Maximizing system performance
  • Analyzing the risk of each error
  • Identifying as few errors as possible

What is the role of a software tester in creating and executing test cases?

  • Defining and managing required test resources
  • Developing the test plan
  • Creating and executing test cases (correct)
  • Analyzing the risk of each error

What are the qualities expected of a software tester?

  • Lackadaisical, argumentative, disorganized, and unimaginative
  • Uncooperative, lacking creativity, and disorganized
  • Overbearing, inarticulate, and unable to adopt client's point of view
  • Striving for perfection, being diplomatic, having great writing skills, and being creative (correct)

What are the two terms used by software testers to describe how they approach their testing?

<p>Black-Box and White-Box Testing (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In software testing, what is the purpose of analyzing and measuring the system’s performance?

<p>To ensure that computer code does what it was designed to do (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main responsibility of a software tester in maintaining test statistics?

<p>Maintaining test statistics (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of testing involves the tester not knowing the details of how the software works?

<p>Black-Box Testing (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In which type of testing does the tester have access to the program's code and can examine it?

<p>White-Box Testing (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of testing refers to examining and reviewing something that's not running such as documentation?

<p>Static testing (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does 'test-to-pass' involve in software testing?

<p>Assuring that the software does what it's specified to do in ordinary circumstances (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two steps in creating a test case?

<p>Drafting purpose and pre-requisites, and writing expected results (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Kaner suggest makes a good test case?

<p>&quot;The best tester is the one who gets the most bugs fixed.&quot; (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What should be checked when reviewing a bug report?

<p>Unnecessary information, personal opinions, and insult potential (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does static testing refer to?

<p>&quot;It refers to examining and reviewing something that's not running such as documentation&quot; (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

"He can't look in the box to see how it operates" refers to which type of testing?

<p>&quot;Black-Box Testing (functional or behavioral testing)&quot; (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

"Complete and correct. Easy to read. Not redundant." are characteristics of what?

<p>&quot;What makes a good test case.&quot; (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Software testing is a process designed to make sure computer code does what it was designed to do and that it does not do anything ______.

<p>unintended</p> Signup and view all the answers

The goal of the software tester is to find errors, finding them as early as possible, and making sure they get ______.

<p>fixed</p> Signup and view all the answers

The software tester role involves developing the test ______.

<p>plan</p> Signup and view all the answers

One of the qualities expected of a software tester is to be ______.

<p>organized</p> Signup and view all the answers

Black-Box and White-Box Testing are two terms that software testers use to describe how they approach their ______.

<p>testing</p> Signup and view all the answers

In software testing, the tester has access to the program's code and can examine it in ______ testing.

<p>white-box</p> Signup and view all the answers

Black-Box Testing is also known as ______ testing

<p>functional</p> Signup and view all the answers

White, Glass, or Clear-Box Testing is also known as ______ testing

<p>structural</p> Signup and view all the answers

Static testing refers to examining and reviewing something that's not running such as ______

<p>documentation</p> Signup and view all the answers

Dynamic testing refers to examining and reviewing something that's running such as ______

<p>software</p> Signup and view all the answers

Test-to-pass involves assuring that the software does what it's specified to do in ______ circumstances

<p>ordinary</p> Signup and view all the answers

Test-to-fail involves assuring only that the software shouldn’t work when it ______

<p>shouldn’t</p> Signup and view all the answers

A test case is 'A group of instructions for each test to be run on the ______'

<p>system</p> Signup and view all the answers

The best tester is the one who gets the most bugs ______

<p>fixed</p> Signup and view all the answers

Checking the Bug Report involves ensuring that the report is not ______

<p>insulting</p> Signup and view all the answers

He doesn't know how or why it happens, just that it ______

<p>does</p> Signup and view all the answers

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