UNIT 4 - Unit wise Questions for Pune University (TE Computer)

Software Engineering

Unit wise questions

Unit 4 – Testing Principles

Topic – Fundamental Concept of Testing

1.      What is importance of testing practices?  What are principles of testing practices?   (May 2014 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Strategic Approach to Software Testing

2.      Explain the strategic approach to software testing. (Dec 2012, 6 Marks)

3.      What is software testing? Explain the software testing strategy for software development. (Dec 2013, 8 Marks)

4.      Differentiate between verification and validation. (Dec 2013, 6 Marks)

Topic – Test Strategies for Conventional Software

5.      What is system testing? Explain any two system testing strategies. (May 2011, 8 Marks)

6.      Explain the approaches in integration testing. (Dec 2011, 8 Marks)

7.      Differentiate between alpha and beta testing. (Dec 2011, 4 Marks)

8.      What is unit testing? Explain the unit testing process. (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

9.      Explain any two system testing methods. (Dec 2012, 6 Marks)

10.  What do you mean by acceptance testing ? (May 2013, 4 Marks)

11.  What is need of stubs and drivers in software engineering? (Dec 2013, 4 Marks)

12.  Explain the integration testing approaches. (Dec 2013, 8 Marks)

13.  Explain in detail – (a) top-down integration testing (b) bottom-up integration testing. (May 2014, 8 Marks)

14.  Explain following testing types.

(a)   Validation testing     (b) acceptance testing   (c) smoke testing process. (May 2014, 8 Marks)

Topic – Art of Debugging

15.  Compare the software testing with debugging. (Dec 2012, 4 Marks)

16.  Explain the debugging process. (Dec 2013, 6 Marks)

Topic – White Box Testing

17.  Explain the following – (a)condition testing   (b) loop testing.  (May 2011, 8 Marks)

18.  What is basis path testing? What is cyclomatic complexity? How it is determined for a flow graph? Illustrate with an example. (May 2012, 8 Marks)

19.  Basis path testing covers all statements in a program module. Justify with an example. (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

20.  Explain the graph matrix and loop testing methods. (May 2013, 8 Marks)

21.  What is cyclomatic complexity? How it is determined for a flow graph? Illustrate with example. (May 2014, 8 Marks)

Topic – Black Box Testing

22.  Explain equivalence partitioning testing. ( Dec 2011, 6 Marks)

23.  Differentiate between white box testing and black box testing. (Dec 2012, 4 Marks)

Topic – Object Oriented Test Strategies

24.  Explain OO testing. (May 2012, 3 Marks)

25.  How OO testing differs from conventional testing strategies? (May 2013, 6 Marks)

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Topic – User Interface Analysis and Design

23.  Explain the user interface design process. (May 2011, 6 Marks)

24.  Explain the user interface design issues. (May 2011, 6 Marks)

25.  Highlight the principles specific to the design of a web application interface. (May 2012, 5 Marks)

26.  Explain the user interface design steps. (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

27.  Explain the user interface design process. (Dec 2013, 6 Marks)