MTA Software Testing Fundamentals 2

Question 1

What is alpha testing?

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Testing conducted internally by the development or QA team before external release

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Testing performed by end users in the production environment

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Fully automated performance benchmarking

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Testing only the first version of a software product

Question 2

What is beta testing?

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Testing performed by real end users in a near-production environment before official release

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Testing performed before alpha testing

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Internal QA-only testing

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Automated unit test execution

Question 3

What is equivalence partitioning in software testing?

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Dividing input data into classes where all values in a class are expected to behave the same

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Dividing the test team into equal-sized groups

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Distributing discovered bugs equally among developers

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Splitting a test plan into equal time segments

Question 4

What does boundary value analysis focus on?

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Testing values at and just beyond the edges of valid input ranges

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Testing only the most typical or average input values

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Analyzing network bandwidth boundaries

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Testing the limits of database storage capacity

Question 5

What is smoke testing?

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A quick preliminary test to verify that critical basic functions work before deeper testing begins

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Testing software in adverse environmental conditions

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Testing software for memory leaks under continuous use

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Security vulnerability scanning

Question 6

Which type of testing evaluates how a system behaves under expected and peak load conditions?

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Performance testing

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Unit testing

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Acceptance testing

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Static testing

Question 7

What is User Acceptance Testing (UAT)?

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Testing conducted by intended end users to confirm the system meets their business requirements

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Testing performed only by internal QA engineers

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Automated regression testing before each deployment

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Developer unit testing of the user interface