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Software quality might be defined as conformance to explicitly stated requirements and standards, nothing more and nothing less. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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People who perform software quality assurance must look at the software from the customer's perspective. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The elements of software quality assurance consist of reviews, audits, and testing. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Which of these activities is not one of the activities recommended to be performed by an independent SQA group? |
| | A) | prepare SQA plan for the project |
| | B) | review software engineering activities to verify process compliance |
| | C) | report any evidence of noncompliance to senior management |
| | D) | serve as the sole test team for any software produced |
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Metrics can be used to indicate the relative strength of a software quality attribute. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Attempts to apply mathematical proof to demonstrate that a program conforms to its specifications are doomed to failure. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Statistical quality assurance involves |
| | A) | using sampling in place of exhaustive testing of software |
| | B) | surveying customers to find out their opinions about product quality |
| | C) | tracing each defect to its underlying cause, isolating the "vital few" causes, and moving to correct them |
| | D) | tracing each defect to its underlying causes and using the Pareto principle to correct each problem found |
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Six Sigma methodology defines three core steps. |
| | A) | analyze, improve, control |
| | B) | analyze, design, verify |
| | C) | define, measure, analyze |
| | D) | define, measure, control |
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Software reliability problems can almost always be traced to |
| | A) | errors in accuracy |
| | B) | errors in design |
| | C) | errors in implementation |
| | D) | errors in operation |
| | E) | b and c |
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Software safety is a quality assurance activity that focuses on hazards that |
| | A) | affect the reliability of a software component |
| | B) | may cause an entire system to fail |
| | C) | may result from user input errors |
| | D) | prevent profitable marketing of the final product |
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The ISO quality assurance standard that applies to software engineering is |
| | A) | ISO 9000 |
| | B) | ISO 9001 |
| | C) | ISO 9002 |
| | D) | ISO 9003 |
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Which of the following is not a section in the standard for SQA plans recommended by IEEE? |
| | A) | budget |
| | B) | documentation |
| | C) | reviews and audits |
| | D) | test |
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