CSTE Sept 2004 Questions

1. There is one application which runs on a single terminal. There is another

application that works on multiple terminals. What are the tests techniques you will
use on the second application that you would not do on the first application? (10
points)

2. To which phase will training fall?

Failure
Prevention
Build
Appraisal

3. Cost of quality consists all of the below except

Failure
Appraisal
Build
Prevention

4. Define the following with an example

a) Equivalence partitioning
b) Error Guessing
c) Boundary analysis ( 15 points)

5. What are the product standards for? (10 points)

a. Test Plan
b. Test Script

6. Your organization believes that acceptance testing is a good quality process for
any IT organization. Your customer would like to do acceptance testing, but does not
know how to do it. He requests you to create an acceptance test plan. Build a sample
acceptance test plan and state 2 well defined acceptance criterions (10 points)

7. Mention 4 reasons why we should test software. (10 points)

8. Defects are least costly to correct at what stage of development cycle

a) Design
b) Development
c) Requirements
d) Implementation

9. Differentiate Verification and Validation (5 points)

10 Unit testing has been introduced newly in the policy. What are objectives of Unit
Testing, and what are the various techniques of unit testing. What are the measures
used to measure it (25 points)

11. When a defect is fixed in production how rather than in requirement, how much
expensive is that

a) 5 times
b) 50 times
c) 500 times

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12. Juran is famous for

a) Quality Control
b) Working on Trend Analysis
c) Two more choices
13. What is the structure testing process?
Parallel
Regression
Stress
Intersystem

14. Software testing activities should start

a) during the design stage
b) as soon as the code is written
c) when the requirements have been formally documented
d) as soon as possible in the development lifecycle

15. What are Pareto charts commonly know as

a) 80-20
b) Scatter plots
c) Check sheet
d) None of the above

16. You are a tester for testing a large system. The system data model is very large
with many attributes and there are a lot of interdependencies within the fields. What
steps would you use to test the system and also what are the effects of the steps
you have taken on the test plan?

17. You find that the senior testers are making more mistakes then junior testers;
you need to communicate this aspect to the senior tester. Also, you don't want to
loose this tester. How should one goabout the constructive criticism? (10 points)

18. You are assigned as the test lead for a new program that will automate takeoffs
and landing at an airport. How would you write a test strategy for this new program?

19. Who is not present Formal inspection

a) Project Manager
b) Facilitator
c) auditor
b) Recorder
e) Author)

20 Software testing accounts for what percent of software development costs?

o a) 10-20
o b) 40-50
o c) 70-80

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21. You are working on a very complex project with large number of controls,
interdependencies between them. What changes you will make to the test plan
contents? What things you will consider at the test planning stage? (30 points)

22. Testing is expensive. How would you ensure that your applications are not
‘over tested’? 15 marks

23. The two types of incremental testing approaches are top down and bottom up
approach.
(a) True (b) False

24. Five errors which software testers make while test planning

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