Quiz 1 Review

Question 1

From a software engineering perspectaive, what is a “problem”?

Answer 1

A problem is a different between things as desired and things as perceived.

Question 2

How do software engineers achieve quality software?

Answer 2

By following a systematic, disciplined, and quantifable software development process.

Question 3

Structural testing means

Answer 3

Testing internal implementations, whcih is white-box in nature

Question 4

From software testing perspective, what do we mean by “reliability”?

Answer 4

Probability of failure-free operation for a specific period or a given set of input under a specific environment.

Question 5

In case of unit testing, what is a “unit”?

Answer 5

The smallest executable or testable component of a system.

Question 6

What of the following is true?

Answer 6

Errors leads to faults and faults leads to failures.

Question 7

Observability and information hdiing are often at odds with each other.

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

Environment assertions are

Answer 8

things in the envirnoment that are true whether or not we ever build the proposed system.

Question 9

Requirements Based Testing (RBT) checks/validates the requirements for:

Answer 9

Ambiguity
Correctness
Completeness

Question 10

In case of RBT, how can we perform initial ambiguity review and domain expert review?

Answer 10

By considering the environment assertions.