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The producer's view of quality is:

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Meets Requirements

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Quality assurance is

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Meant to prevent defects

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Quality control is

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Product focused

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Quality assurance is responsible for all of the following except

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Telling technicians how to perform their duties

QA IS responsible for:
Quality planning
measurement and analysis
Facilitation

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Quality control techniques may include all the following except:

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Defining standards and procedures

QC techniques include:
system testing
integration testing
inspections

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To calculate the Cost of Quality you must add all of the following costs except:

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Cost to build the product

Cost of quality includes:
Failure costs
appraisal costs
preventive costs

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Software testing is

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an appraisal of cost of quality

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PDCA stands for

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Plan, Do, Check, Act

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A policy statement answers the question

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WHY

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We test software for all of the following reasons except:

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To Verify run times

We test software to:
reduce risk
validate requirements work
establish confidence that a program works

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A successful test function is one that

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Is performed throughout the development life cycle

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Functional tests validate:

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system requirements

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White Box testing is used to validate

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Program structure

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White box testing is normally performed by

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Deveoper who wrote the code

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The following are white box test techniques except:

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Boundary value analysis

White Box test techniques:
Statement coverage
Path Coverage
Conditions

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Black box testing is used to validate

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business requirements

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Black box testing is typically performed by

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independent test teams and business users

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The following are black box test techniques:

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Equivalence portioning and boundary analysis

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How much testing is enough

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When the cost to detect defects exceeds the potential damage caused by the defect

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A test strategy is effective if:

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It is likely to mitigate known risks

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A test strategy contains two major components:

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Risk and issues that need to be adddressed and phase where testing will be conducted

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The basic test phrases are

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Unit test, integration test, system test, user acceptance test.

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Unit testing is

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Performed by the developer and validates the structure of one of the program module or component

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System testing is

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Performed by the test team and validates functional requirements

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The "V Model" is a life cycle approach that integrates

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Verification and validation techniques

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Reviews are conducted for all of the following reasons except:

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Evaluate individual performance

Reasons are:
Reduce time to market
To detect defects in the phase where it was introduced into the product
knowledge transfer

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Test planning

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Improves communication

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All of the following are advantages of a structured test plan expect:

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Enables you to test on any platform and operating environment

advantages of structured test plan:Identifies what will and will not be tested
Enables one to allocate test resources
Provides a means to report an objective test status

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Recovering lost or corrupted data due to a system failure is an example of which cost of quality category

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Failure cost

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A defect is

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A variance for requirements for a variance from customer expectation

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True or False
The "fit for use" definition of quality is a producer's version of quality

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False

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True or False
one of the fallacies in the software development world is that you can "test" quality into the product

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True.. OHHHHHH SOOOOO VERYYYYY TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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True or False
Quality Assurance is primarily defect detection

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False

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True or False
Prevention costs are not part of the "cost of quality"

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False

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True or False
The "P: in the PDCA cycle stands for PREVENT

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False
"P" stands for Plan

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True or False
The policy states the "how" component of a process

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False
Policy states the WHY

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True or False
The actual source code is written in the design phase of the SDLC

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False
Construction phase

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The waterfall model is one of the most flexible development models

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False

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True or False
Risk is defined as the probability that an unfavorable event will occur that results in loss

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True

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True or False
Functional tests are tests
that validate system requirements and business scenarios

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True

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True or False
White-Box testing is a functional testing technique

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False
White box testing is structural

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True or False
Error guessing is a test technique used to validate error checking routines

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False

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True or False
A test charter is management's definition of testing

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True

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True or False
You can never test a program too much

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False

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True or False
User acceptance Testing validates that the system is "fit for use"

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True

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True or False
The "V" Model divides the development and test processes into two stages, the specification stage and the test stage

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True

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True or False
Integration tests validate the design

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True

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True or False
Static testing is executing actual code

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False

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True or False
An Inspection is an informal review technique

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False

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True or False
The project plan is the input into the test plan process

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True

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True or False
Both dynamic and static testing is performed during the requirement phase.

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False

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True or False
The primary goal of defect management is to prevent defects

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True

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True or False
Each column or row in a decision table represents an individual test case

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True

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True or False
Stress testing tests the relationship between the developers and the test team

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False

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True or False
Usability is marginally critical for any web application that is seen directly by customers

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False