Types of Testing
Test Artifacts
QA Celebrities
Testing Toolbox
Epic Failures
100
A quick test to see if the application "catches on fire".
What is smoke testing?
100
Sequence of steps to test the functionality/feature.
What is a test case?
100
QA Pioneer, author, also famous German composer and musician
Who is James Bach?
100
Orthogonal Array or Pairwise testing and Reverse Semantic Traceability; approaches to testing
What are Testing Techniques?
100
This website address went Live Oct. 1, 2013 and crashed Oct. 1, 2013
What is Healthcare.gov?
200
Testing to make sure the older programming still works.
What is regression testing?
200
Describes the scope, approach, risk, and test deliverables; and has same initials as toilet paper.
What is a test plan?
200
Rapid SW Testing Guru and Singer of “When a Man Loves a Woman”
Who is Michael Bolton?
200
Test Director and TestComplete are names of these examples
What are automated testing tools?
200
1912, Accident in the Atlantic Ocean due to low grade iron rivets.
What is Titanic?
300
Also known as application testing or end-to-end testing and begins with the letter S.
What is system testing?
300
A table that correlates requirements; also a Keanu Reeves movie, plus a type of paper.
What is a traceability matrix?
300
Professor and Author of “Testing Computer Software”
Who is Cem Kaner?
300
Input/output attacks, Data attacks and Computation attacks; also a "whitty" approach.
What are Whittaker's Attacks?
300
Iconic Airship exploded due to broken wire and static electricity
What is Hindenburg?
400
Known as clear box testing, glass box testing or a slider.
What is white box testing?
400
A program that contains a large number of bugs is said to be this, also a Volkswagon Beetle.
What is buggy?
400
Founded Quality Tree Software and shares first name of the Queen of England
Who is Elisabeth Hendrickson?
400
A free web debugging proxy and "playing this instrument on the roof".
What is Fiddler?
400
American shuttle that exploded killing a woman teacher
What is Challenger?
500
Testers are in the dark, and only aware of what the software is supposed to do, not how it does it.
What is black box testing?
500
Describes functionality needed; also can be told at bedtime to children.
What is a User Story?
500
Author of “How to Break Software” and known for his “testing attacks”
Who is James Whittaker?
500
Open Source software test tool; periodic table element #34
What is Selenium?
500
America's worst commercial nuclear accident
What is 3 Mile Island?
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