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Software Development: Quality Assurance Knowledge Test
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Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means and practice of monitoring all software engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards.

SQA encompasses the entire software development process, including requirements engineering, software design, coding, code reviews, source code control, software configuration management, testing, release management and software integration. It is organized into goals, commitments, abilities, activities, measurements, verification and validation.

Software Development: Quality Assurance Knowledge Test
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25 Questions

1. What is the purpose of smoke testing?
2. Which testing technique focuses on testing what the user should perceive?
3. Which of the following statements are false about using software tests?
4. What type of test involves the process of testing integrated software?
5. What type of test involves testing groups of functions and/or components?
6. Which aspect of code quality does unit testing help enforce?
7. What is the primary goal of quality assurance in software development?
8. The primary purpose of unit testing in software development is to:
9. Which testing technique focuses on examining the internal logic and structure of a software application?
10. What does the term defect clustering refer to?
11. Why is Cross-Browser Compatibility Testing important?
12. What is the typical process after writing unit tests in Test-Driven Development (TDD)?
13. What does CI/CD stand for?
14. How does compatibility testing differ from cross-browser testing?
15. What is the purpose of a test case execution report in software testing?
16. What is the key benefit of unit testing in software development?
17. What is exploratory testing?
18. How does unit testing contribute to code documentation?
19. What are common cross-browser compatibility issues?
20. What is the testing phase that's usually done when the software is almost 60 - 80% complete?
21. What type of test behaves like a user to click around the app and verify that it functions correctly?
22. What type of test involves catching errors while writing code?
23. What does SAST stand for in the context of software security testing?
24. What type of testing is done on a new feature to ensure that it doesn't accidentally break existing functionality?
25. What do the terms QA and QC stand for?