Week 10: Software Testing

Question 1

What is the difference between software verification and software validation?

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Question 2

What are the different types of testing?

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Question 3

What is the software testing strategy?

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Question 4

What are test cases?

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Question 5

What are the attributes of a good test?

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Question 6

What are the two approaches to testing?

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Question 7

What is the general Unit Test Case Design?

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Question 8

What is error handing with regards to Unit Testing?

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Question 9

What is Unit Test Scaffolding? What are Drivers and Stubs?

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Question 10

What is White Box Unit Testing? What test cases can you derive?

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Question 11

What are Independent paths? What type of testing do they correspond do?

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Question 12

What is a Basis Set for Independent Paths? What do you need to determine?

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Question 13

What is the first step in computing cyclomatic complexity?

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Question 14

What is the first way to compute cyclomatic complexity using regions?

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Question 15

What is the second way to compute cyclomatic complexity using edges and nodes?

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Question 16

What is the third way of computing cyclomatic complexity using predicate nodes?

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Question 17

What do you do when you have computed cyclomatic complexity?

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Question 18

Example for creating a flow graph:

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Question 19

What is Basis Path Testing?

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Question 20

What is control structure testing? What are its methods?

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Question 21

What is loop testing? What are some common test cases for loop testing?

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Question 22

How are test cases for nested loops done?

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Question 23

What is Black Box Unit Testing?

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Question 24

What are the common Black Box Tests?

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Question 25

What is Interface Testing? What type of testing is it?

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Question 26

What is Equivalence Partitioning Testing? What type of testing is it?

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Question 27

What is Boundary Value Analysis Testing? What type of testing is it?

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Question 28

What is Integration Testing?

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Question 29

What is the Big Bang Approach to Integration Testing?

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Question 30

What is Top-Down Integration Testing?

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Question 31

What are the differences between Depth-First Integration Testing and Breadth-First Integration Testing?

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Question 32

What is Bottom-Up Integration Testing?

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Question 33

What is Continuous Integration?

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Question 34

What is smoke testing?

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Question 35

What are the advantages of smoke testing?

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Question 36

What is Regression Testing?

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Question 37

Regression testing suites contain what three classes of test cases?

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Question 38

What is validation testing?

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Question 39

What is System Testing?

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Question 40

What are the types of system testing?

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