Testing & Test Data
Lesson Instructions
Watch and follow the YouTube video, the lesson contains three parts:
Key Information and content - all you need to do here is watch and listen. We recommend you take some notes for this one!
Learning activity - You are to complete the matching activities involving test data types and testing scenarios.
Consolidation - these are past exam question and are for deliberate practice to check your understanding.
Testing Full Lesson Video.mp4Task - Testing & Test Data Activity
Task - Exam Questions - Deliberate Practice
Mark Scheme
Question 1 (a)
1 mark per bullet to max 2.
Finding defects / problems...
...so that these can be fixed before use.
Ensuring that calculations are done correctly...
...so that the baggage is priced correctly
Ensuring that end results meet user requirements...
...so they system gains user / customer confidence
Award any two relevant bullet points. Candidates can gain two marks from either two separate points or one point plus an expansion.
Question 1 (b)(i)
Testing during development
Question 1 (b)(ii)
Testing after (the majority of) development has been completed / testing before release.
Question 2
1 mark for sensible borderline data, 1 mark for sensible invalid data
Borderline - 0, 100
Invalid - number less than 0 (e.g -1, -12) / number more than 100 (e.g. 101, 206) / non-numeric data (e.g. "test", "#!%")