Multiple choice technology testing

Testing is not done to:

  1. Find faults

  2. Improve quality

  3. Check user friendliness

  4. Improve software accuracy
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Testing's primary objectives are finding faults, improving quality, and validating usability/non-functional requirements. Testing evaluates rather than directly improves accuracy - developers fix faults to improve accuracy. Testing identifies issues but is not itself the mechanism that improves software precision.

AI explanation

Per the ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) foundation syllabus, the core objectives of testing are to find defects/faults, to increase confidence and improve quality, and to evaluate qualities like usability (user-friendliness). "Improving software accuracy" is not listed as a testing objective in the ISTQB framework — accuracy/correctness improvements are a development/fix activity that happens AFTER testing reveals defects; testing itself only detects issues, it doesn't inherently "improve" accuracy. This exact question ("Testing is not done to...") appears in ISTQB certification sample question banks with "Improve software accuracy" as the accepted correct answer (the thing testing is NOT for), matching the DB's marked answer.

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