ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level
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40 questions · 60 minutes · pass mark 26 of 40 points
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Which of the following is a typical objective of testing?
- Improving the development processes so that fewer defects are introduced
- Causing failures and finding defects
- Analysing the causes of a failure and eliminating them
- Proving that the test object contains no remaining defects
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Correct answer: B. Causing failures and finding defects
Explanation
Causing failures and finding defects is named among the typical test objectives. Improving processes so that fewer defects arise is the preventive, process-oriented approach of quality assurance; analysing the causes of a failure and eliminating them is debugging, which the syllabus calls a non-testing activity; and the first testing principle states that testing cannot prove the absence of defects.
Why each option
- Improving processes preventively is quality assurance, not a test objective.
- Correct. causing failures and finding defects is a named typical test objective.
- Finding, analysing and eliminating a failure's causes is debugging, a non-testing activity.
- Testing shows the presence, not the absence, of defects; it cannot prove correctness.