Chapter 1 Flashcards
Inspection of source code of a program - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?
Quality Control
Unit testing to validate that the program works - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?
Quality Control
Identifying defects in a program for the primary purpose of correcting defects - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?
Quality Control
The customer`s view of quality is - Meets Requirements or Fit For Use?
Fit For Use
The producer’s view of quality is - Meets Requirements or Fit For Use?
Meets Requirements
Requirements definition processes - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?
Quality Assurance
Testing processes and standards - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?
Quality Assurance
System development methodologies - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?
Quality Assurance
Retesting falls into which category of the Cost of Quality? Prevention, Appraisal or Failure?
Failure
Final inspections fall into which category of the Cost of Quality? Prevention, Appraisal or Failure?
Appraisal
Money spent establishing methods and procedures? Prevention, Appraisal or Failure?
Prevention
The cost of quality can be reduced by? Testing at beginning of Software Development Life Cycle, Testing at end of Software Development Life Cycle or Testing throughout Software Development Life Cycle?
Testing throughout Software Development Life Cycle
Most IT groups have two quality gaps - which two of these are they - Provider, Producer, Customer, Supplier?
Producer and Customer Quality Gaps
The extent to which a program satisfies its specifications and fulfills the users mission objectives is called - Correctness, Efficiency, Usability, Flexibility?
Correctness
The effort required to locate and fix an error is a program is called - Integrity, Efficiency, Usability, Maintainability?
Maintainability
Which is NOT a process improvement standard for software development or testing - TMMi, CMMI-Dev, P-CMM, ISO 29119?
P-CMM
One of the strengths of the CMMI is the detailed testing processes - True or False?
False - CMMI pays little attention to QA
Which of the following is/are SDLC models - Waterfall, Spiral, Incremental, All of the above, None of the above?
All of the above are SDLC models
In a cost of quality analysis, the costs required to avoid errors to do the job right the first time is called - Prevention Costs, Appraisal Costs, Failure Costs?
Prevention Costs
Agile works well in an environment where it is hard to get solid requirements - True or False?
True - Agile works well when requirements are not always clear.
Exploratory Testing combines the tester`s _______ to develop better test cases: Experience, Creativity, Things they learn while testing, All of the above, None of the above?
All of the above.
White box testing is normally performed by whom - Independent Tester, Business Analyst, Developer who wrote the code, End User?
The Developer who wrote the code typically does White Box testing.
Problems inherent in the Water Fall SDLC model is/are - Change Averse, Unclear Process, Too Flexible, All of the above, None of the above?
Change Averse
Outsourcing aligns well with which ‘School of Thought’ - Agile, Context-driven, Factory or Analytical?
Factory
