July 2005
Beginner to intermediate
408 pages
10h 21m
English
Content preview from Software Testing, Second Edition
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Appendix A. Answers to Quiz Questions
Chapter 1
In the Year 2000 bug example, did Dave do anything wrong? | |
If Dave was a good programmer he would have questioned the “obvious” oversight and not just programmed his software to only work through 1999. Because he didn't, a software tester should have tested for and found the bug. The team could have then decided whether to fix it. | |
True or False: It's important what term your company or team calls a problem in its software. | |
False. It's not important, but the term used often reflects the personality of the team and how they approach the finding, reporting, and fixing of the problems. | |
What's wrong with just testing that a program works as expected? | |
At most, that's only half the testing ... |
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