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Software Engineering → Coding Standards 4

Who are the persons involved in a Formal Review? <br>i. Manager <br>ii. Moderator<br>iii. Scribe / Recorder<br>iv. Assistant Manager
Mistake
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Which quality deals with the maintaining the quality of the software product?
It reduces defect multiplication.
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In data flow testing, objective is to find
Transient
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Condition testing is a control structure testing technique where the criteria used to design test cases is that they
Quality of conformance
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Software Engineering → Software Testing 4

Which of the following is a Key Characteristics of Walk Through?
Test principles affect activities throughout the test life cycle.
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The interviews, which are held between two persons across the table is ______.
To prove that the software has no faults
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Every node is represented by
All of the mentioned
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Data flow testing is a control structure testing technique where the criteria used to design test cases is that they
Internal Failure
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Software Engineering → Debugging 4

What type of fault remains in the system for some period and then disappears?
Bugs
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Which of these primary objectives have to be achieved for the requirement model?
None of the above.
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The testing technique that requires devising test cases to demonstrate that each program function is operational is called
Fail Safe
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Loop testing is a control structure testing technique where the criteria used to design test cases is that they
Software failure
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Software Engineering → Software Maintenance 4

Which of the following approaches are used to achieve reliable systems?
Both verification & validation
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Which of the following is not a functional testing technique?
A failure
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What types of errors are missed by black-box testing and can be uncovered by whitebox testing?
Hardware checks
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Cyclomatic complexity was developed by
Quality control
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Software Engineering → Introduction to Software Engineering 4

A system maintaining its integrity while accepting a temporary halt in its operation is said to be in a state of
Set of test cases
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Decision tables are useful in situations where
The objective of the test
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Black-box testing attempts to find errors in which of the following categories
Forward error recovery mechanism
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Cyclomatic complexity is denoted by
One-to- one
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Software Engineering → Software Development Models 4

Which of the following Error Detection checks is not a part of Application detection?
Acceptance Testing
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‘Causes’ and ‘Effects’ are related to
All of the above
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What is an equivalence partition (also known as an equivalence class)?
Redundancy
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The equation V(G)= No. of predicated nodes+1 is applicable only when node has
All mentioned above
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Software Engineering → Waterfall Model 4

Exception handling is a type of
Failure
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If ‘n’ represents the number of variables in a program then Boundary Value analysis yields how many test cases
Selecting the personnel, allocating roles.
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Functional system testing is:
Domino
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The size of the graph matrix is
Regression Testing
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Software Engineering → Spiral Model 3

All fault-tolerant techniques rely on
All of the above
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For a function of ‘n’ variables, the robustness testing will yield how many cases
Scribe
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Which of the following techniques is not a White box technique?
When quality criterion is reached
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Software Engineering → Agile Model 3

It is imperative for communicating processes to reach consistent recovery points to avoid the _________ effect, with backward error recovery mechanism.
A test team will test the software more thoroughly
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In decision tables, which of the following is true?
ii,iii,iv are true and i is false.
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What is the relationship between equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis techniques?
All of the mentioned
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Software Engineering → Requirement Engineering 3

Inspections and testing are what kinds of Quality Costs
All of the above
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Cyclomatic complexity is equal to
Scenario, Dry Run, Peer Group
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White Box Techniques are also called as
Appraisal
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Software Engineering → Software Design 3

Software project manager is engaged with software management activities. He is responsible for ______.
Data synchronization
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Data flow testing is related to
Evaluating deliverable to find errors
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The cyclomatic complexity metric provides the designer with information regarding the number of
Process control
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