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"Originally, it's a property of a particular type of graph (a "cyclomatic graph"), in which any point ("node") of the graph can be reached from any other point.  A flowchart is a graph in which the "points"…"

"Big topic, Shanavas.  Let's see: Review (for current purposes) -- "Evaluation by one or more people of the status of a project, process, or work product". Peer - "Person of similar hierarchichal OR technical…"

"Hi, Dung Vu. A path is a sequence of executable statements. Testers are concerned with "entry-exit paths", which begin at the entry point into a given process and proceed to its exit point. (Why? Because you can't normally start or…"

"Some excellent responses here about two related disciplines that are often confused. To summarise the position: • QA is defect prevention • QC is defect detection and correction • Testing is the “detection” half of…"

""“Suspension and Resumption” are about the risk that situations may arise during test execution, that threaten to make continuing with testing a WOMBAT (Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time), until things are sorted out. (It would…"

"PraNa's attachment gives good advice on computing the size of covering sets for statement and decision coverage, Swarupa, but implies that branch coverage and decision coverage are the same thing. For ISTQB exam purposes, this may be taken to…"

"Bug leakage or defect leakage is the opposite of "phase containment". The idea is that defects may be introduced at any stage of software development (planning, requirements definition, design, construction, documentation, even testing),…"

"Depends on the type and extent of coverage required, Divya. If 80% of all statements (instructions, including if statements) must be tested, one test case would suffice, taking the true branch out of each decision (so "statement 2" would…"