Computer Science A level (CIE)
Final exam questions and answers
Acceptance testing - defination;Testing done when the software is delivered to the client
on their computer system. The performance of the software is monitored against the
requirements specification
Alpha testing - defination;The software is tested at the development company by a
number of testers. At this stage it may well still have faults.
Beta testing - defination;The software under development is released to a number of
privileged customers for their feedback, before it is commercially released.
Black box testing - defination;Testing that considers only the inputs to the program and
the outputs produced; the detailed code is not considered.
Dry run - defination;Process in which a programmer checks by hand the execution of a
program by recording the changing values of all variables in a trace table.
White box testing - defination;Testing designed to analyse the structure of a program;
test data are devised that test all possible routes through the code
Breakpoint - defination;point where the program can be halted to see if the program
works at this point
stepping / step through - defination;executes one statement at a time and then pauses
to see the effect of each
statement
Final exam questions and answers
Acceptance testing - defination;Testing done when the software is delivered to the client
on their computer system. The performance of the software is monitored against the
requirements specification
Alpha testing - defination;The software is tested at the development company by a
number of testers. At this stage it may well still have faults.
Beta testing - defination;The software under development is released to a number of
privileged customers for their feedback, before it is commercially released.
Black box testing - defination;Testing that considers only the inputs to the program and
the outputs produced; the detailed code is not considered.
Dry run - defination;Process in which a programmer checks by hand the execution of a
program by recording the changing values of all variables in a trace table.
White box testing - defination;Testing designed to analyse the structure of a program;
test data are devised that test all possible routes through the code
Breakpoint - defination;point where the program can be halted to see if the program
works at this point
stepping / step through - defination;executes one statement at a time and then pauses
to see the effect of each
statement
