The following is the unique "critical" quality risk item that has been identified:
CR-RSK-1. The GUI of the application might accept non-integer values for the input field designed to get the number of bottles from the user.
Test analysis for system testing has just begun and the following test conditions have been identified:
TC-SEL-2. Test the selection of the package sizes TC-SEL-4. Test wrong numbers of bottles for an order TC-CR-RSK-1. Test the accepted values from the input field designed to get the number of bottles from the user
Assume that you have used traceability to determine the logical test cases that cover all the requirements and the single risk item identified in that scenario.
Which of the following is a positive logical test that is complete and correct, and covers the REQ-SEL-4 requirement?
A. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 5 bottles; verify that no error messages are displayed.
B. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that no error messages are displayed.
C. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that the "Invalid number of bottles" message is displayed.
D. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles.
You can count on well-written requirements, but you can't count on an adequate contribution of the stakeholders to the quality risk analysis. You have to mitigate the insufficient contribution of the stakeholders because the risk-based testing approach shall minimize the product risks. Your test team has one expert tester in security testing.
Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important in this context?
A. Extract from the defect tracking system of the previous project all the security defects and failures, and classify them to support design and execution of specific tests.
B. Automate all functional and non-functional system tests.
C. Apply systematic and exploratory testing for integration and system test.
D. Perform exploratory testing sessions with adequate charters covering security aspects.
Which of the following statements represents the most effective contribution of the stakeholders to the completion of the failure mode analysis table?
A. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the detection. The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the priority.
B. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the priority. The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the detection.
C. The system architect and the chief software engineer should contribute to assess the priority. The expert tester is the only one who should contribute to assess the detection.
D. The aircraft pilot is the only one qualified to contribute to assess the priority and thus should be assigned this task. The customer representative should contribute to assess the detection.
Based on the historical data of 5 past and similar projects, you have calculated these average numbers of defects detected in system testing:
for each 10000 LOC (lines of code), 200 defects for each person-month of development team effort, 49 defects
You want to use this information to perform estimation for a new project.
The project manager tells you that he/she has estimated 20000 new LOC for this new project.
Four developers work for four months on this project before system testing.
During system testing, 797 defects are discovered.
Assume that the system test of this new project is using the same amount of work as spent in the past projects.
Based on this information only, which of the following statement is certainly true about this project?
A. The code for the new project contains a higher defect density than the code of the past projects.
B. The number of defects found during the system test phase on the new project is approximately proportional to the development team effort.
C. 40000 LOC have been delivered to system testing (against the 20000 LOC planned by the project manager).
D. More LOC than planned have been delivered to system testing with a higher defect density than the past projects.
You are managing the system testing for a SOA based system. The integrated system consists of several subsystems:
a SOA middleware a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system a BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system a SMS (Subscriber Management System) system
and you performed a risk analysis based on these subsystems.
At the end of the scheduled period for test execution you produce a first classical report based on the traditional metrics of testing. Test pass/fail status and bug status (open/resolved) That table provides you a distorted picture of the quality risk, because there is no indication of the risk level of the failed tests, the tests not run, or the open bugs. Thus, you produce the following table to solve this distortion issue: In the table above, where you have introduced the concept of risk weighting, the highest risk test or bug report has a score of 1, while the lowest risk test or bug report has a score of 0.04.
Which of the following subsystems, based on the risk scores of the table, is most risky?
A. SOA
B. CRM
C. BRM
D. SMS
You are a Test Manager working for a software organization where reviews have never been applied. After a meeting with your managers examining a business case for reviews, (including their costs, benefits, and potential issues), the management finally decides to adopt formal reviews for future projects.
You have been given a budget that you have spent to provide training in the review process and to introduce the review process on a pilot project.
On that pilot project the introduction of reviews has been very positive in terms of positive involvement from all the participants. All the reviews applied to different documents have been very effective for their purposes (especially at revealing defects).
Which of the following answers describes an important success factor for the introduction of formal reviews which is missing in this scenario?
A. Management support
B. Participant support
C. Definition and use of metrics to measure the ROI (Return On Investment)
D. Training in the review process
Which of the following factors could negatively influence a review?
A. Include people with the adequate level of knowledge, both technical and procedural.
B. Include people who are detail-oriented and scrupulous at finding issues.
C. Include as many people as possible in order to have more viewpoints about possible problems on the item under review.
D. Include people able to contribute to a clear, thoughtful, constructive and objective discussion.
Which of the following statements about the TMMi test process improvement model is true?
A. In TMMi all the process areas at lower levels must be 75% complete by achieving specific and generic goals in order to claim the higher level.
B. TMMi provides an approach for test process improvement such as the IDEAL (Initiating, Diagnosing, Establishing, Acting and Learning) model.
C. TMMi has a staged architecture for process improvement with seven maturity levels.
D. At TMMi level 1 testing is chaotic without a defined process, and it is often seen as the same as debugging.
Assume you are managing a test automation project for a mission-critical system.
Because vendor provided tools and open source solutions don't meet the needs of this project, you ask your test team to develop a custom automation framework.
Which of the following management issues associated to the development of this custom automation framework is least likely to manage?
A. Proper testing for the custom automation framework must be performed.
B. The custom automation framework will require an adequate documentation.
C. The changes to the custom automation framework should be communicated to all external users of this tool under the GNU license.
D. The custom automation framework will need proper maintenance.
Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a motivating factor for testers?
A. The resources allocated for the testing activities are not sufficient and don't allow the testers to contribute to the quality of the product.
B. The testers contribution to the quality of the software products developed from an organization is recognized with increased responsibilities.
C. The same regressions tests are executed manually by the same testers, for every product release, without any progression in content.
D. The testers are asked to perform, in parallel with their testing tasks, other tasks unrelated to their testing responsibilities.
