Timeline for Definition of complete testing - ISTQB Foundation Level
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| Dec 8, 2021 at 7:21 | comment | added | Larry | @IAmMilinPatel Can you send a link? I encountered 3 different sources total, including OP's, but neither was from ISTQB themselves. Was this question taken from an actual exam? If that is the case, then I may be wrong because I misunderstood the question, or the question is wrong, or the answer was marked incorrectly. | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 0:32 | comment | added | IAmMilinPatel | Okay. ISTQB itself has marked C as the correct answer. So what do you think? Their definitions are wrong? Or their exam content? | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 10:35 | comment | added | Larry | @IAmMilinPatel Yes, but this entire thread is about which answer to an ISTQB test is correct. During an ISTQB exam, you have to know and apply the terms standardized by ISTQB, such as complete testing, especially when the task is to describe the term. Doing otherwise would be like saying that a curve in mathematics must be curved, because that's what the common meaning of the word is, whereas in mathematics, the term "curve" also includes straight lines, without question. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 0:33 | comment | added | IAmMilinPatel | ISTQB isn't the Bible or testing. As a tester you need to understand the things better by exploring multiple sources and contexts. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 18:08 | comment | added | Larry | @IAmMilinPatel Yes, complete and exhaustive are synonyms in certain contexts, but I have not stated that. I stated that "exhaustive testing" is a synonym of "complete testing" according to the official ISTQB glossary. Search for "complete testing" and see what you'll find: glossary.istqb.org/en/search/complete%20testing (click on the entry once open to view its synonyms). Officially listed as synonyms, and nr. 2 of the 7 testing principles says that complete testing is not practically feasible. No surprise that we have to know the definition of something that is impossible. | |
| Nov 30, 2021 at 12:44 | comment | added | IAmMilinPatel | If the exam form asks for a definition, it does so of Complete Testing. Why do you stress on "Exhaustive". Do you think the words "complete" and "exhaustives" are synonyms? If yes, why? How? If not, what exactly is the confusion? | |
| Nov 30, 2021 at 11:54 | comment | added | Larry | @IAmMilinPatel I would not. One of the 7 principles of testing is that exhaustive testing is impossible. This principle would not make sense unless exhaustive testing had a definition. The exam question asks about the definition, not whether it's possible to perform or not. | |
| Nov 27, 2021 at 13:05 | comment | added | IAmMilinPatel | Larry, how would you acertain you have discovered every bug in the system? | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 9:17 | comment | added | Larry | No, look it up in the ISTQB glossary. The precise definition of complete testing (a synonym for "exhaustive testing") is: "A test approach in which the test suite comprises all combinations of input values and preconditions.". The correct answer is "A", although not by the above definition, but by what the term "exhaustive testing" means in practice. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 8:11 | comment | added | IAmMilinPatel | I think of the available answers C is the most preferable answer. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 8:10 | history | edited | IAmMilinPatel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2016 at 8:07 | comment | added | Deepika Fernando | Agree with your definition. It can be applied in real life scenarios. However, this question seems to be looking for another option as the answer :) | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 7:29 | history | answered | IAmMilinPatel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |