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Software Engineering · End Term · 10 May 2026 · January 2026 term

Question 8: A banking application has five modules. Each module has a…

Question 8

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A banking application has five modules. Each module has already passed unit testing. The team integrates all five modules at once and then starts testing the full system. When a failure occurs, it is very difficult to find which module caused it. Which integration testing approach was used?

  1. A

    Top-down

  2. B

    Bottom-up

  3. C

    Big-bang

  4. D

    Mixed

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Correct answer

  • C

    Big-bang

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Question 8 of 25 in the IIT Madras BS Software Engineering (Software Engineering) End Term paper sat on 10 May 2026, in the January 2026 term (Software Engineering 06 May 26). It carries 4 marks.

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