2004-12 Subjective Questions

1) differentiate between verification and validation 2) what are the points to be emphasized in testing of a system which has multiple workstations for inputting (as against a single workstation system 3) define and give examples for a] boundary value analysis b] equivalence partitioning c] error guessing? 4) your customer doesn�t know how to prepare acceptance test plan. write contents of the acceptance test plan for his guidance? 5) how will you make sure that your software is not get "over-tested" three ways? 6) 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? 7) write test plan considerations for testing of a system with highly interdependent and complex data model in nature. (it has lot of variables, fields, constraints, mathematical processing and so on)? (30 marks) 8) give measurements for a] test effectiveness and b] test efficiency? 9) after doing review of units before doing unit testing you found the following types of bugs in the code write your analysis and conclusion based on the follwing bugs? critical:-

definition of cirtical

major:- definition of major minor:- definition of minor bugs incorrect requirement design flaw design flaw logic incorrect extra code doumentation

severity major critical critical major minor minor

days to fix 4 15 17 7 5 4

like this there are atleast 5-6 more bugs can't remember all. on the basis of this you have to write your conclusion? 10) what is the objective of unit testing? wite three methods and metrics for the same? how u will enusre that this has been followed? 11) your company is about to roll out an e-commerce application. it is not possible to test the application on all types of browsers on all platforms and operating systems. what steps would you take in the testing environment to reduce the business risks and commercial risks? 12) when to stop testing ? but asked like what points will u add in test plan? 13) list the 5 error tester makes? (new question) 14) the code completion from development side is going to delay by 5 days. but the client dont want to postponed his release date. so being a qa manager how will you

handle this situation without changing the resources? (workhours,tester,etc.,). (10 marks). or 14) your company has not done unit testing in the past. what is the unit testing policy that you would establish before delivering the code to independent testing team? following were the three sections in the question. 1) state the objective for unit testing 2) write any three white box testing techniques 3) how will you measure the compliance to the above unit testing policy this question carried 30 points.