1/1/2021 MCQ QUESTIONS
SOFTWARE TESTING
Tour2Tech
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UNIT - 1
1. The order in which test levels are performed is:
a. It depends on the nature of a project
b. Unit, Integration, Acceptance, System
c. Unit, System, Integration, Acceptance
d. Unit, Integration, System, Acceptance
2. What is “V” Model?
a. Test Design Technique
b. SDLC Model
c. Test Type
d. Test Level
3. Behavioural testing is not the other name for structural
testing?
a. true
b. false
4. System testing is a
a. Alpha testing
b. White box testing
c. Grey box testing
d. Black box testing
5. Test cases are designed during which of the following stages?
a. Test specification
b. Test recording
c. Test configuration
d. Test planning
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6. The technique applied for usability testing is:
a. Glass box
b. Grey box
c. White box
d. Black box
7. Which of the following is not a Test Type?
a. Statement Testing
b. Security Testing
c. Functional Testing
d. Database Testing
8. Which of the following is not a white box technique?
a. Structure testing
b. Database testing
c. Path testing
d. State transition testing
9. Error guessing is a:
a. Test verification techniques
b. Test data management techniques
c. Test control management techniques
d. Test execution techniques
10. In order to control cost, defects should ideally be detected in which
phase:
a. Design
b. Coding
c. Implementation
d. Requirements Gathering
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11. Which of the following is not a Software Development Life Cycle
Phase?
a. Design
b. Coding
c. Implementation
d. Test closure
12. Unit testing is done by:
a. Tester
b. Coder
c. Developer
d. End user
13. A program with high cyclometic complexity is likely to be:
a. Difficult to write
b. Difficult to test
c. Small
d. Large
14. Which of the following is true about Software Verification?
a. Verification ensures the product being developed is according to design specifications.
b. Verifications concentrate on the design and system specifications.
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
15. All defects result in failure.
a. true
b. false
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16. The problem that threatens the success of a project but which has
not yet happened is called as __________.
a. Bug
b. Risk
c. Error
d. Defect
17. Bug is the same name of _______.
a. Error
b. Incident
c. Bug
d. Defect
18. LSD stands for ________________
a. Lean Software Development
b. Live Software Development
c. Less Software Data
d. Lean Software Data
19. A key principle of Scrum is ______________
a. Fixed scale development
b. Strict requirements
c. Requirements volatility
d. Cross-functional development
20. A set of activities that ensure that software correctly implements a
specific function.
a. Testing
b. Validation
c. Verification
d. Implementation
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21. Validation is computer based.
a. True
b. False
22. ___________ is done in the development phase by the debuggers.
a. Debugging
b. Coding
c. Testing
d. None of Above
23. What do you call testing individual components?
a. System Testing
b. Black Box Testing
c. Unit Testing
d. None of Above
24. Which defines the role of software?
a. System Engineering
b. Design
c. System Design
d. Implementation
25. A testing conducted at the developer’s site under validation testing.
a. Alpha
b. Gamma
c. Lambda
d. Unit
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26. Testing helps us to __________ of product by finding defects in
product.
a. Measure Quality
b. Improve Quality
c. Fix Defect
d. All of Above
27. Which of the following is the largest bug producer?
a. Design
b. Code
c. Specification
d. None of Above
28. Stubs and Drivers are used in Big Bang Integration.
a. False
b. True
29. Cost of the defect does not increase over the period of time.
a. False
b. True
30. Sometimes software tester can use only Error Guessing Technique
while testing the software.
a. False
b. True
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UNIT - 2
31. Which of the following is/are Integration approaches?
1. Top – Down Integration
2. Bottom - Up Integration
3. Functional Integration
4. Big bang Integration
a. 1, 2, 3, 4
b. 1, 2
c. 1, 2, 3
d. 1, 3, 4
32. Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Stubs are used in bottom-up approach.
2. Stubs are used in Top-down approach.
3. Drivers are used in bottom-up approach.
4. Drivers are used in Top-down approach.
a. 1, 2, 3
b. 2, 3, 4
c. 1, 2
d. 2, 3
33. The goal of Integration Testing is to find defects in communication
between two modules rather than seeing if modules are working
correctly.
a. True
b. False
34. What are the objectives of Integration Testing?
a. To verify that system separately testable modules are functioning properly.
b. To verify that interfaces between different parts of system.
c. To verify that system meets user expectation and needs.
d. To verify that system is functioning according to specified requirements.
35. For effective testing, variety of techniques should be used in
combination.
a. False
b. True
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36. Which of the followings is/are best described as Smoke Testing?
a. Rolling Integration Testing
b. Unit testing for small programs
c. Part of Black Box Testing.
d. None of the above.
37. A large scale system integration test may come after the acceptance
of a system.
a. False
b. True
38. What is the main purpose of integration testing?
a. Design Errors
b. Procedure Errors
c. Interface Errors
d. None of the above
39. Which of the following is the form of Alpha and Beta Testing?
a. Acceptance Testing
b. Integration Testing
c. System Testing
d. Unit Testing
40. Which of the following is the main advantage of Top down
Integration Testing?
a. Major decision points are tested early.
b. Modules are not tested by team again and again.
c. No stubs need to be written
d. None of the above.
41. System testing only deals with functional requirements. True or
false.
a. False
b. True
42. Beta testing is useful way of compatibility testing. True or false.
a. True
b. False
43. Testing a functionality of software has two parts, requirement
specification testing and business process based testing. True or false.
a. True
b. False
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44. Sometimes regression testing is best candidate for automation.
a. False
b. True
45. Which of the following is non-functional testing for an ecommerce
website?
a. 1000 people can log into system at same time.
b. security of system during transaction
c. People can buy goods
d. people can return faulty goods
46. If a company decides to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7,
which type of testing is done to ensure whether your software works on
new platform?
a. Interoperability Testing
b. Performance Testing
c. Usability Testing
d. Portability Testing
47. Configuration testing deals with hardware while compatibility testing
deals with software.
a. True
b. False
48. Which technique is applied for usability testing?
a. White Box
b. Grey Box
c. White Box & Black Box
d. Black Box
49. Which is/are the characteristics of equivalence partitioning?
a. In equivalence-partitioning technique we need to test only one condition from each
partition.
b. If one condition in a partition works, we assume all of the conditions in that partition will
work.
c. Equivalence partitions and equivalence classes both terms mean exactly the same thing.
d. All of above
50. Equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis techniques are
used only during system testing.
a. True
b. False
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51. Boundary value analysis is belong to Black Box Testing.
a. True
b. False
52. Alpha testing is done at Developers end.
a. True
b. False
53. A particular text field accepts only alpha characters. Which of the
following is invalid equivalence partition?
a. apple
b. APPLE
c. a2pple
d. None of the above
54. AWT has more powerful components like tables, lists, scroll panes,
colour chooser, tabbed pane etc.
a. True
b. False
55. What is an equivalence partition?
a. An input or output range of values such that each value in the range becomes a test case
b. An input or output range of values such that only one value in the range becomes a
test case
c. A set of test cases for testing classes of objects
d. An input or output range of values such that every tenth value in the range
becomes a test case.
56. Maintenance testing is performed using breadth test and depth test
methodology.
a. False
b. True
57. A shopping website gives discount based on prices of total
purchased items. Suppose customer purchases are below 2000 Rs. then
no discount, for purchases till 20000, it gives 10% discount and above
20000 it gives 15% discount. Which of the following sets of values lie in
3 different equivalence classes?
a. 100, 1800, 20001
b. 2001, 10000, 20002
c. 1800, 2000, 8000
d. 1800, 2003, 58,000
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58. Which of the followings is/are a form of Functional Testing?
a. Boundary Value Analysis
b. Security Testing
c. Usability Testing
d. Performance testing
59. Debugging and Testing are same activities.
a. False
b. True
60. Errors, Defects, Failures are synonymous.
a. True
b. False
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UNIT – 3
61. In static test techniques, behavioural and performance properties of
the program are observed.
a. False
b. True
62. What do you understand by V&V in software testing?
a. Version & Verification
b. Verification & Validation
c. Version & Validation
d. Verified & Version
63. Which of the following is a black box testing strategy?
a. All statement coverage
b. All Paths Coverage
c. Control Structure Coverage
d. Cause-Effect Graphs
64. A set of inputs, execution preconditions and expected outcomes is
known as a
a. Test Suit
b. Test Document
c. Test Plan
d. Test Case
65. In which test design each input is tested at both ends of its valid
range and just outside its valid range?
a. Boundary value testing AND Equivalence class partitioning
b. Equivalence class partitioning
c. Boundary value testing
d. Decision tables
66. A white box test scales up well at different granularity levels of
testing.
a. False
b. True
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67. Which of the following is not a part of a test design document?
a. Test plan Specification
b. Test Plan
c. Test log
d. All of above
68. Specifying a set of test cases or test paths for each item to be tested
at that level is known as
a. Test Case Generation
b. Test Case Design
c. All of above
d. None of above
69. Acceptance & system test planning are a part of architectural design.
a. False
b. True
70. PRD stands for
a. Product Requirement Document
b. Project Requirement Document
c. Product Rejection Document
d. None of above
71. Specification should not be allowed to change.
a. Yes
b. No
72. What are the criteria to decide the testing efforts?
1. Time and budget
2. The Size of development team
3. The Size of testers
4. Risk associated with project
a. 3, 4
b. 2, 3
c. 1, 2
d. 1, 4
73. Test Cases are created in which phase?
a. Test Planning
b. Test Requirement
c. Test Configuration
d. Test Specification
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74. What is used as a measure of code coverage?
a. Test Effectiveness
b. Defects
c. Trends Analysis
d. Time spent Testing
75. Which of the following is not checked by Statement
Coverage
a. Dead Code
b. Unused Statements
c. Unused Branches
d. Missing Statements
76. Select Impact Analysis is used in which of the following?
a. User Acceptance Testing
b. Component Testing
c. Maintenance Testing
d. Non-functional System Testing
77. In order to generate effective tests at a lower cost, test designers
analyse the following sources of information:
a. Operational Profile
b. Both c & d
c. Source Code
d. Fault Model
78. White-box testing, sometimes called ..........., is a test case design
method that uses the control structure of the procedural design to
derive test cases.
a. Grey Box Testing
b. Glass Box Testing
c. White Box Testing
d. Steel Box testing
79. ................... help you to design a series of test cases that have a high
likelihood of finding errors
a. Project Plan
b. Software Testing Techniques
c. SRS
d. Requirement Document
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80. Test case design focuses on a set of techniques for the creation of
test cases that meet overall testing objectives.
a. False
b. True
81. In order to write black box test cases we need the.................
a. Requirement Document
b. Project Plan
c. Design
d. All of above
82. ............. test cases are like a green light for the application and help
to determine whether or not the application should go into production.
a. Critical
b. Performance
c. Acceptance
d. Quality
83. We can have one or more test cases covering the requirements.
a. False
b. True
84. Devising a set of test cases that will guarantee that all errors will be
detected is somewhat feasible.
a. False
b. True
85. Generally, a test case also specifies the expected outcome from
executing the SUT under the specified execution conditions and test
inputs.
a. True
b. False
86. By applying.................... We minimize the redundant test cases.
a. Trimming
b. Parameterizing
c. Boundary values
d. Equivalence Classes
87. ..................... can be used to design good test cases.
a. Equivalence classes & Boundary Values
b. Boundary values & Trimming
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c. Parameterizing & Trimming
d. Parameterizing
88. Good test case has a reasonable probability of catching an error.
a. False
b. True
89. A set of inputs, execution preconditions and expected outcomes is
known as a -------
a. Test Document
b. Test Specification
c. Test Plan
d. Test Case
90. In which test design each input is tested at both ends of its valid
range and just outside its valid range?
a. Boundary Value Testing
b. Equivalence Analysis
c. Equivalence Classes
d. Decision Table
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UNIT – 4
91. In a company if the test plan is not written according to the
standards, which category of defect will it be classified into
a. Product defect
b. Procedure defect
c. Process defect
d. Document defect
92. Which of the following aptly describes testing?
a. Evaluating deliverables to find errors
b. Phase of all projects
c. Debugging code
d. Finding broken code
93. Relation between two variables over time is given by
a. Bar chart diagram
b. Scatter plot diagram
c. Historic diagram
d. Run chart diagram
94. The number of defects in a particular software is given by which
metric
a. Coverage matric
b. Mean time to failure
c. Defect density
d. Defect removal rate
95. The more common benefit associated with the service level
agreement are
a. Establish two way accountability
b. Make complaining easy
c. Provide the basis for budget
d. All of above
96. Quality assurance is a process by which product quality is compared
with applicable standards, and the action taken when non-conformance
is detected.
a. True
b. False
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97. Comparing processes or products against best practices with the
goal of improvement is
a. Benefit Realization
b. Baselining
c. Benchsetting
d. Benchmarking
98. Function/Test matrix is a type of project status report.
a. True
b. False
99. Defect management process doesn’t include _____
a. Defect prevention
b. Defect tracking
c. Management reporting
d. Deliverable base-lining
100. Which of the following is not a state of a Bug in Bug Life Cycle:
a. New
b. Open
c. Verified
d. Critical
101. Executing the same test case by giving the number of inputs on
same build called as?
a. Retesting
b. Regration Testing
c. Smoke Testing
d. Ad-Hoc Testing
102. Boundary value analysis belongs to which testing method?
a. All of above
b. Grey box testing
c. White box testing
d. Black box testing
103. If a defect is delayed for later phases it proves more costly:
a. True
b. False
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104. Executing the same test case on a modified build called as?
a. Retesting
b. Regression Testing
c. Sanity Testing
d. None of the above
105............ happens when defect introduced in one phase passes to
another phase without getting caught in the phase-end verification or
validation activities.
a. Defect Prevention
b. QC
c. Defect Leakage
d. Defect Cascading
106. Three simple steps below refer to:
1. Analyze defects or errors to trace the root causes.
2. Suggest preventive actions to eliminate the defect root causes.
3. Implement the preventive actions.
a. Defect Tracking
b. Defect Prevention
c. Defect Age
d. None of the above
107. Defect ....... is a technique that was developed to estimate
the number of defects resident in a piece of software.
a. Density
b. Age
c. Seeding
d. Latancy
108. The main focus of ......... is to reduce defects and variations in
the processes.
a. QA
b. QC
c. Six Sigma
d. None
109. Normally, the impact ratings for defects are classified into three
types:
a. Minor, Major, Low
b. Minor.Low, Critical
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c. Minor, Major, Critical
d. Minor, Major, High
110. A latent defect is an existing defect that has not yet caused a failure
because the exact set of conditions were never met.
a. True
b. False
111. If a defect is delayed for later phases it proves _______ costly.
a. Less
b. More
c. Extra
d. Lesser
112. Defect cascading is a defect which is caused by another defect.
One defect triggers the other defect.
a. False
b. True
113. Informing the developer which bug to be fixed first is called
as priority.
a. True
b. False
114. A ....... Is an existing defect that hasn’t yet caused a failure just
because another defect has prevented that part of the code from
being executed?
a. Mutant Defect
b. Masked Defect
c. Latent Defect
d. Delayed Defect
115. Which one of the below is not a Bug Tracking tool?
a. Bugzilla
b. Selenium
c. Team Tracking
d. None
116. How severe the bug is affecting the application is called as?
a. Priority
b. Tracability
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c. Severity
d. Flexibility
117. Deferred status in bug life cycle means
a. The bug is expected to fixed in next releases
b. Developer feels that the bug is not genuine
c. Bug is repeated twice
d. None
118. What is a defect?
a. It is found in the development environment before the product is shipped to the respective
customer
b. It is found in the product itself after it is shipped to the respective customer.
c. It is the deviation from actual and the expected value.
d. None
119. Defect reports are useful as they contain
a. Defect description
b. Summary
c. Priority
d. All of above
120. Which metrics is used to compares field defects with test defects?
a. Defect deduction percentage
b. Defect detection percentage
c. both a and b
d. None of the above
121. Who determines the severity of bug?
a. All stakeholder
b. End User
c. Developer
d. Tester
122. Defect report is also useful for process improvement. True or false.
a. False
b. True
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UNIT – 5
123. A test design technique is
a. A way to measure in a test plan what has to be done
b. A process for determining expected outputs
c. A way to measure the quality of software
d. A process for selecting test cases
124. In which order should tests be run?
a. The order they are thought of
b. The easiest tests first
c. The most difficult tests first
d. The most important tests first
125. Requirement Engineering is not concern with ____________.
a. Requirement Elicitation
b. Requirement Analysis
c. Requirement Design
d. Requirement Documentation
126. A test technique that involves testing with various ranges of valid
and invalid inputs of a particular module or component functionality
extensively is ___________.
a. Gorilla Testing
b. Monkey Testing
c. Agile Testing
d. Baseline Testing
127. Bug status is set to postpone due to ________.
a. Priority of that bug may be low
b. Lake of time for release
c. Data may be unavailable
d. The bug may not be the measure effect in software
128. Which Testing is performed first?
a. Black box Testing
b. White box Testing
c. Static Testing
d. Dynamic Testing
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129. A tester is executing a test to evaluate and it complies with the user
requirement for a certain field be populated by using a dropdown box
containing a list of values, at that time tester is performing __________ .
a. Regression Testing
b. Load Testing
c. White box Testing
d. Black box Testing
130. Standard Enforcer is a
a. All of above
b. Static and dynamic testing
c. Dynamic testing
d. Static testing tool
131. Many applications using static analysis find 0.1-0.2% NCSS. NCSS
stands for
a. Non-Code Source Statement
b. Non-Comment Source Sentence
c. Both a and b
d. Non-Comment Source Statement
132. Software testing with real data in real environment is known as
a. Beta testing
b. Alpha testing
c. Regression testing
d. None
133. The process of using special software tools or scripts to perform
testing tasks such as entering data, executing the test steps and
comparing the results, etc. is known as Automation testing.
a. False
b. True
134. Execution Verifier is a dynamic tool that is also known as
a. Test harness system
b. Test/File Generator
c. Coverage Analyser
d. Test Archiving System
135. Which of the following is method of JDBC batch process?
a. Test harness system
b. Test/File Generator
c. Coverage Analyser
d. Test Archiving System
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136. Which axis name in Selenium is related to the selection of all the
parent, grandparent and so on?
a. Ancestor
b. Parent
c. Preceding
d. All of above
137. Which of the following is not a verify and asserts method in
Selenium?
a. VerifyText
b. VerifyElementPresent
c. VerifyElementNotPresent
d. VerifyTextAttribute
138. Capture/Playback tool would be involved in the automation of
regression test?
a. True
b. False
139. When is automation useful?
a. Regression testing
b. Non-functional testing
c. Complex calculation
d. All of above
140. How do you identify the test cases which are suitable for
automation?
a. Both a and b
b. Identify appropriate process
c. Identifying the appropriate test cases for automation is the most important step
towards automation.
d. None of above
141. Can you achieve 100% automation?
a. Not possible
b. We can achieve 100% automation
c. It is easy to achieve 100% automation
d. It is difficult to achieve 100% automation
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