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Objective Type:
3. Who will develop the test process for software development using
new technology?.(Almost same question was asked in Part 1 ad part 3)
a. Management
b. Project team
c. Auditor
d. Tester and few more options
13. Test planning activity which includes starting and end time for
each test milestone.
a. Budgeting
b. Scheduling
c. Estimation
d. Staffing
Below are three risks associated with s/w testing. Explain each of them
and give a mitigation for each risk.
1. Not Enough Training/Lack of Test Competency
2. Us versus Them Mentality
3. Lack of Customer and User Involvement
Objective questions were mostly from Skill Category 7,8,9 and 10 and
could be answered well only if you have read through the prep guide
atleast twice.
CSTE April 22nd 2006.
Subjective:
* All these are not exact questions. These are
prepared to the extent I remember.
5. Explain about
Complexity Measures
Data Flow Analysis
Symbolic Execution
10. V-Model
Objective:
* All these are not exact questions. These are
prepared to the extent I remember.
2. Therapeutic listening is
a. Sympathetic listening
b. Listening to pieces of information…
5.What are important Quality factors that u will test for in a multiple
workstation scenario taht u will not do in asingle work station
scenario.
15. What are the important things that u ll look for during a demo of a
contractor software.
16.Waht are CSF s. What are the CSFs that u ll look for in a contactor
delivered software.Define them.
20. As a test manager - test skill set relates question (iam not sure).
Part II (7 questions)
1. Describe 4 tests you would use to test COTS software
3. You are the Test Manager of a company, which has outsourced its
testing activities. What you would state to your IT Manager in terms of
your responsibilities as Test Manager to give him assurance that
testing would be conducted properly
6.
7.
Part IV (8 questions)
1. What would you include in a defect report
4. Define
a) Boundary Analysis
b) Equivalent Partitioning
c) Error Guessing
Give one example for each.
Sep 17th paper objectives covered each and every topic frm CBOK plus
general management questions related to software life cycle and for
subjectives scenerios were given to answer..It was all repetitive of
previous papers.
I could recall a few of them here..hope it would be usefull for those
preparing for cste...
Objectives:
1) Software inspections categorize defects as Wrong, Missing and Extra.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
10) Which is the application for the process management and quality
improvement concepts to software development and maintenance.
A) Malcolm Baldridge
B) ISO 9000
C) QAI
D) QS14000
12) Software errors are least costly to correct at what stage of the
development cycle?
A) Requirements
B) Construction
C) Acceptance test
D) Design
16) Top down & Bottom Up are the part of Incremental Testing
A) True
B) False
All objective questions in Part 1 were tricky and it covered every line
in the CBOK. This was also time consuming.
CSTE question listed below were written based on the intent of the
actual CSTE question.
6. Organization has legacy system and testers are using Waterfall model
for testing. List the things that are needed for the testers to move
from legacy system to Web application testing? (15 points)
9. What is Boundary Value analysis, when will you use it. Also, explain
the Boundary value analysis using a Payroll application example. (15
points)
10. There are many coverage techniques. Explain any two coverage
methods that you will suggest? (15 points)
11. There is a particular type of S/W called COTS (Commercial off the
shelf S/W) or Shelf software. Explain the testing strategy that would
be followed to test it? (15 points)
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?
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?
12) when to stop testing ? but asked like what points will u add in
test plan?
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
Q2. How will you ensure the effectiveness, efficiency and total
coverage of a model with lots of fields, data, and interdependent paths
between them?
Q3. 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?
Q4. You have air flight control software what would be your test
strategy?
Q6. List 4 purposes of what you think are primary goals of testing?
Q7. 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?
Q10. 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?
Q12. What are the product standards for these Test Plan, Test Script,
Test Report