2003-09 Cste Exam Questions

September 13th 2003 CSTE Exam Questions 1)Define Boundary Value Analysis, Error Guessing, Equivalence Partitioning(10 Marks) 2) Define Effectiveness and Efficiency (15 Marks) 3)Your customer does not have experience in writing Acceptance Test Plan. How will you do that in co-ordination with customer? What will be the contents of Acceptance Test Plan?(15 Marks) 4) It is being observed that in a project cost of testing is very high. After going in detail it was found that the testers are testing the software which is not left with many defects. How will you make sure that this is correct? Any three ways? What are the disadvantages of Over Testing? (15 Marks) 5)You company is going to create first E-Commerce application. How will you test this application? ( 10 Marks) 6) Same application program will run on a standalone workstation and on connected workstations. Describe what additional testing is requires where workstations are connected? (15 Marks) 7)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.(10 Marks) 8) 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 go about the constructive criticism.(10 Marks) 9) There is a new model made with lots of fields, data, and interdependent paths between them. How will you ensure effectiveness, efficiency and total coverage in the testing of this model.(30 Marks) 1) 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 2) Juran is famous for a. Quality Control b. Working on Trend Analysis c. Two more choices 3) When to stop Testing a. When u run out of time b. All test cases are done c. When quality goals established in the beginning of the projects are met. 4) What is the structure testing process a, Parallel

b.Regression c. Stress d. Intersystem 5)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 lifecycle 6) Which one of these is not a statistical test tool? a). Stratifying b) Check sheet c) Regression Analysis d) Flow Charts 7) What are Histograms commonly know as; a) Pie charts b) Scatter plots c) Bar Charts d) None of the above 8)Which is the reputed testing standard? a) M. Bridge awards b) ISO some more choices