ISTQB Foundation Sample Question Paper No. 3
1.Software testing activities should start
a. as soon
as the code is written
b. during
the design stage
c. when the
requirements have been formally documented
d. as soon
as possible in the development life cycle
2.Faults found by users are due to:
a. Poor
quality software
b. Poor
software and poor testing
c. bad luck
d.
insufficient time for testing
3.What is the main reason for testing software before releasing
it?
a. to show
that system will work after release
b. to
decide when the software is of sufficient quality to release
c. to find
as many bugs as possible before release
d. to give
information for a risk based decision about release
4. which of the following statements is not true
a.
performance testing can be done during unit testing as well as during the
testing of whole system
b. The
acceptance test does not necessarily include a regression test
c.
Verification activities should not involve testers (reviews, inspections etc)
d. Test
environments should be as similar to production environments as possible
5. When reporting faults found to developers, testers should be:
a. as
polite, constructive and helpful as possible
b. firm
about insisting that a bug is not a “feature” if it should be fixed
c. diplomatic,
sensitive to the way they may react to criticism
d. All of
the above
6.In which order should tests be run?
a. the most
important tests first
b. the most
difficult tests first(to allow maximum time for fixing)
c. the
easiest tests first(to give initial confidence)
d. the
order they are thought of
7. The later in the development life cycle a fault is discovered,
the more expensive it is to fix. why?
a. the
documentation is poor, so it takes longer to find out what the software is
doing.
b. wages are
rising
c. the
fault has been built into more documentation,code,tests, etc
d. none of
the above
8. Which is not true-The black box tester
a. should
be able to understand a functional specification or requirements document
b. should
be able to understand the source code.
c. is
highly motivated to find faults
d. is creative to
find the system’s weaknesses
9. A test design technique is
a. a
process for selecting test cases
b. a
process for determining expected outputs
c. a way to
measure the quality of software
d. a way to
measure in a test plan what has to be done
10. Testware(test cases, test dataset)
a. needs
configuration management just like requirements, design and code
b. should
be newly constructed for each new version of the software
c. is
needed only until the software is released into production or use
d. does not
need to be documented and commented, as it does not form part of the released
software
system
11. An incident logging system
a only
records defects
b is of
limited value
c is a
valuable source of project information during testing if it contains all
incidents
d. should
be used only by the test team.
12. Increasing the quality of the software, by better development
methods, will affect the time
needed for testing (the test phases) by:
a. reducing
test time
b. no
change
c.
increasing test time
d. can’t say
13. Coverage measurement
a. is
nothing to do with testing
b. is a
partial measure of test thoroughness
c. branch
coverage should be mandatory for all software
d. can only
be applied at unit or module testing, not at system testing
14. When should you stop testing?
a. when
time for testing has run out.
b. when all
planned tests have been run
c. when the
test completion criteria have been met
d. when no
faults have been found by the tests run
15. Which of the following is true?
a.
Component testing should be black box, system testing should be white box.
b. if u
find a lot of bugs in testing, you should not be very confident about the
quality of software
c. the
fewer bugs you find,the better your testing was
d. the more
tests you run, the more bugs you will find.
16. What is the important criterion in deciding what testing
technique to use?
a. how well
you know a particular technique
b. the
objective of the test
c. how
appropriate the technique is for testing the application
d. whether
there is a tool to support the technique
17. If the pseudocode below were a programming language ,how many
tests are required to achieve
100% statement coverage?
1. If x=3
then
2.
Display_messageX;
3. If y=2
then
4.
Display_messageY;
5. Else
6.
Display_messageZ;
7. Else
8.
Display_messageZ;
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
18. Using the same code example as question 17,how many tests are
required to achieve 100%
branch/decision coverage?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
19. Which of the following is NOT a type of non-functional test?
a.
State-Transition
b.
Usability
c.
Performance
d. Security
20. Which of the following tools would you use to detect a memory
leak?
a. State
analysis
b. Coverage
analysis
c. Dynamic
analysis
d. Memory
analysis
21. Which of the following is NOT a standard related to testing?
a. IEEE829
b. IEEE610
c. BS7925-1
d. BS7925-2
22.which of the following is the component test standard?
a. IEEE 829
b. IEEE 610
c. BS7925-1
d. BS7925-2
23. which of the following statements are true?
a. Faults
in program specifications are the most expensive to fix.
b. Faults
in code are the most expensive to fix.
c. Faults
in requirements are the most expensive to fix
d. Faults
in designs are the most expensive to fix.
24. Which of the following is not the integration strategy?
a. Design
based
b. Big-bang
c.
Bottom-up
d. Top-down
25. Which of the following is a black box design technique?
a.
statement testing
b.
equivalence partitioning
c. error-
guessing
d.
usability testing
26. A program with high cyclometic complexity is almost likely to
be:
a. Large
b. Small
c.
Difficult to write
d.
Difficult to test
27. Which of the following is a static test?
a. code
inspection
b. coverage
analysis
c.
usability assessment
d.
installation test
28. Which of the following is the odd one out?
a. white
box
b. glass
box
c.
structural
d.
functional
29. A program validates a numeric field as follows:
values less
than 10 are rejected, values between 10 and 21 are accepted, values greater
than or equal to 22
are rejected
which of
the following input values cover all of the equivalence partitions?
a. 10,11,21
b. 3,20,21
c. 3,10,22
d. 10,21,22
30. Using the same specifications as question 29, which of the
following covers the MOST boundary
values?
a.
9,10,11,22
b. 9,10,21,22
c.
10,11,21,22
d.
10,11,20,21
31. An input field takes the year of birth between 1900 and 2004.
The boundary values for testing
this field are
a.
0,1900,2004,2005
b. 1900,
2004
c.
1899,1900,2004,2005
d. 1899,
1900, 1901,2003,2004,2005
32. Which one of the following are non-functional testing methods?
a. System
testing
b.
Usability testing
c.
Performance testing
d. Both b
& c
33. Which of the following tools would be involved in the
automation of regression test?
a. Data
tester
b. Boundary
tester
c. Capture/Playback
d. Output
comparator.
34. Incorrect form of Logic coverage is:
a.
Statement Coverage
b. Pole
Coverage
c.
Condition Coverage
d. Path
Coverage
35. Which of the following is not a quality characteristic listed
in ISO 9126 Standard?
a. Functionality
b.
Usability
c.
Supportability
d.
Maintainability
36. To test a function, the programmer has to write a _________,
which calls the function to be
tested and passes it test data.
a. Stub
b. Driver
c. Proxy
d. None of
the above
37. How many test cases are necessary to cover all the possible
sequences of statements (paths) for
the following program fragment? …………
if (Condition 1)
then statement 1
else statement 2
fi
if (Condition 2)
then statement 3
fi
…………
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. None of
the above
38. Acceptance test cases are based on what?
a.
Requirements
b. Design
c. Code
d. Decision
table
39. A common test technique during component test is
a.
Statement and branch testing
b.
Usability testing
c. Security
testing
d.
Performance testing
40. Statement Coverage will not check for the following.
a. Missing
Statements
b. Unused
Branches
c. Dead
Code
d. Unused
Statement
Answers:
1.d
2.b
3.d
4.c
5.d
6.a
7.c
8.b
9.a
10.a
11.c
12.a
13.b
14.c
15.b
16.b
17.c
18.c
19.a
20.c
21.b
22.d
23.c
24.a
25.b
26.d
27.a
28.d
29.c
30.b
31.c
32.d
33.c
34.b
35.c
36.b
37.c
38.a
39.a
40.a
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