While mining the defect database for patterns of problems in the last release, a Test Manager notices that many of the most damaging failures were caused by defects
injected during the low-level design phase.
Which of the following actions will likely give this project the most effective solution to this problem? [3]
Which technique will assist you in determining targeted improvement areas to reduce the number of defects? [1]
Your defect opened trend is converging to the closed trend but there is still a gap. What does that gap represent?
Your organization has decided to augment your testing team with an offshore team. The offshore team members are experienced testers who are experts in the domain of the system under test Your team is worried about the offshore team taking their jobs and they are resistant to the change You need to pick three of your team members to be the ambassadors for the new team
Which competences will be most important for your ambassadors to possess?
You are working In an environment that is continually pushing process improvements down to the lest team You are skeptical that any of these have actually accomplished any improvement In fact you know that some of the changes have actually impaired progress
Given this information what step of the IDEAL model is missing?
Which of the following organizational structures would be considered unorthodox? [1]
You are a Test Manager at a company that develops mobile phone applications. Based on historical data in your company, you have calculated the following average metrics for system testing:
• for each 100 LOC (Lines Of Code). 4 test cases are executed
• each test case takes on average 15 minutes to execute and check
• for each 1000 LOC, 5 defects are found
You have used this information to create an estimate for the system testing of a new mobile phone application being developed to submit gas and electricity readings.
The application delivered for system testing has 50.000 lines of code. At the end of system testing, 250 defects are discovered.
Assume that:
• the system test of the new mobile phone application will require the same amount of effort as previous applications
• defect density = number of defects/1000 LOC
• no new tools or processes have been introduced to the test team
Based only on the given information, which one of the following statements is true about this new mobile phone application?
SELECT ONE OPTION
You are a Test Manager on a new project. The software that is being created will be used to control the projectors in movie theaters. This is a time critical project because the software must be
released before the Christmas holiday season which has the highest movie attendance of the year.
You have decided to implement a review process for the work products that are a part of this release to save both time and money. In order to expedite the training, you brought in a consultant to
train the participants and moderators in proper review processes. Your team is enthusiastic about participating in the reviews.
The project is in the early planning stages. As the review leader, what is an appropriate activity for you to be doing at this point in the project? [3]
You plan to introduce a new tester to your Agile team who has expertise in test automation, a necessary skill lacking in current team members. The individual has a high degree of technical competence but has only ever worked alone and admits to finding face-to-face communication difficult.
What would be the BEST course of action?
Which TWO of the following metrics will be MOST useful in helping the stakeholders to decide whether to allow the system into acceptance testing?
Breakdown of all risks by status (closed / not fully tested / one or more tests failed)
Breakdown by test priority of test execution status (passed / failed / not run)
Breakdown of outstanding risks by risk level and status (not fully tested / one or more tests failed / both)
Breakdown of unresolved defects by severity and status
Breakdown of unresolved defects by Risk Id/s that is/are affected by them
You are the Test Manager on a project to replace an old sales and merchandising system with one that will be based on modern platforms It will be developed using an Agile lifecycle.
The main requirements for the system are:
Loading sales data, sent electronically from the stores each evening, into a central database.
Producing sales reports for the merchandisers, whose job is to manage stock levels in stores.
Producing forecast reports, used to predict demand for each product, based on a combination of sales history and forecasting parameters. The parameters will be entered by the merchandisers into a browser based front end and the reports will be produced overnight.Requirements 1 and 2 are satisfied by the existing system and will be rewritten with no significant changes. Requirement 3 is new.The Data Centre Manager is concerned about the performance of overnight batch processing and the Sales and Merchandising Manager is concerned about usability. Both managers have indicated that they are keen to allocate resources to acceptance testing.You have already determined that component and component integration testing will be done by developers before any other testing.
Which option contains TWO items that would complete your test approach in respect of test levels?
As the Test Manager working for a company developing safety related software for defence equipment, you have been asked to consider how you can track test progress and report on the following:
1) Test cases adequately cover all requirements
2) Issues relating to safety critical vulnerabilities are being addressed in priority order
3) How much of the developed system has been exercised through testing What tools would help to achieve this?
SELECT ONE OPTION
The diagram shows a defect workflow in which two states do not have appropriate names.
Which option could correctly provide the missing state names?
As a Test Manager, which one of the following do you think is the MOST important reason for ensuring effective processes are in place for test monitoring and reporting?
SELECT ONE OPTION
Which option correctly presents the main characteristics of test estimation?
You are the Test Manager of a four-person test team working for a small distribution company with a single warehouse. Your team has been working with a third party development team on a new
inventory management system. The company expects this system to generate approximately one million dollars per annum in profits for the company. Early in the project, various risks were
identified, and steps taken to mitigate those risks.
For example, you sent your test team for training on the new system, and upgraded the test environment. There are still some lingering risks that have not been addressed, but they have been
determined to have a low chance of occurring, with minimal impact if they do occur.
What would be the best option to mitigate these remaining risks? [3]
Your test team is in the process of completing final regression testing one week before the release date. One of your staff has just uncovered a critical defect that causes
data corruption.
What should you do? [2]
Your company has adopted an Agile methodology. Defect reports are not raised for all bugs found during the testing of individual stories, but continue to be raised in some circumstances, e.g., when the fix cannot be made immediately, or would involve another team. The teams would like better data to use for assessing the quality of their work. The list below shows five items that are currently not captured on defect reports.
Which TWO of these items will be MOST useful for assessing the quality of a product increment?
In an Agile project, when Is it acceptable lo not write a formal defect report when a defect is found''
One of your team members is struggling to identify the requirements to be tested for a project The requirements documents are not conventional but you have determined that the data is there. If they do some digging to find it Given this information in what competence area does this person need to improve?
You have been looking at the actual vs expected defects in one high risk area of the software The actual is much higher than the expected value What should you do?
In what environment are you most likely to see multiple defect management systems used in one project?
Which of the following is required to apply an experience-based testing approach''
At what testing level do the test management activities Include coordinating with end users7
You have assembled the following cost of quality numbers 200 defects were found prior to release and 100 were found after.
Given this information what is the total cost of quality for this project?
You are working with a development team who have a CI/CD pipeline implemented. They want to integrate your team's existing test automation into the pipeline to augment their unit tests so they will have continuous testing. They have already determined that this is technically possible with the tool you are using but with require some changes to the test automation framework to integrate the results reporting
What will your team need to make this happen?
Your manager has decided that your team of manual testers should all become test automation engineers Your team is much stronger in analysis than In technical testing so you are concerned about their ability to adapt. What tool capabilities could help with this transition?
Your team has decided that they will build their own test management tool This will allow them to link the requirements and test cases together providing full traceability It will also allow them to create fully customized reporting and color-coded dashboards They have estimated the time required to create the new tool and the cost These fit within the project schedule and budget
What other consideration should be taken before this decision is made?
You are working for an outsource testing company You have a client that will only consider candidates that are highly skilled with Salesforce. regardless of the number of years they have spent testing similar products You have looked through your skills matrix and you have no one with the right type of experience for this project.
What competence area is your team lacking?
You feel that your team has become lazy when applying good software testing techniques You have given each of them a challenge to take a different business rule and build a full decision tableand then collapse that table You will then assess the results For this assessment, what competencies are you validating?
You are the Test Manager of a risk-based testing effort. You develop the following graph to show residual risk. Assume that "Risks mitigated" represents passed tests and "Risks not mitigated"
represents failed tests and other discovered failures.
Which of the following answers best represents what the graph shows? [3]
Your application development team is performing "test-driven" development. This is a core principal of which software development model? [1]
Refer to SCENARIO 2 - Which two of the following are test strategies that would need to be implemented to meet the objectives defined in the Safe as Houses' test
policy?
a. Analytical strategy
b. Reactive strategy
c Methodical strategy
d. Regression averse strategy
e. Process compliant strategy
Assuming that 'In progress' means that somebody is working on a fix and that 'Resolved' means that the fix passed the confirmation test; which option provides a defect workflow that flows in a sensible way from an initial state to a terminal state?
You just handed over the Defect Accepted and Deferred report to your Maintenance team.
Which testing activity are you performing? [1]
You are the Test Manager on a new project. The schedule is aggressive and will require the team to work at peak efficiency. The requirements are not well defined yet, but it is clear that the
project will be using new technologies. To help the developers meet the development schedule, an offshore group will be added to the development team.
At this time there is not enough budget to add more testing resources. The project stakeholders are very concerned about the quality of delivered product and will be watching the project closely,
particularly during the testing cycles. The exit criteria from the system test level require no open high priority/severity defects, 100% pass rate for all test cases covering risks that are classified as
"high" or "very high", 90% pass rate for all "medium" risks and 50% pass rate for all "low" and "very low" risks.
Given this information, which lifecycle model should you recommend? [3]
A project to replace an old sales and merchandising system with a new version based on modern platforms, will use an Agile lifecycle with iterations of fixed length.
The project objectives include:
• Delivery within 6 months of the start of the first iteration, in 3 releases, to be accomplished by a team that will contain all resources deemed necessary to achieve this
• Quality of delivered product to meet customer acceptance criteria
A test objective, derived from discussion with the customers, has been set as follows:
"Each release shall deliver usability that is better than that of the previous system for the equivalent functionality"
Which S.M.A.R.T. criteria are met by this objective?
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Timely
You have done a comprehensive risk analysis. You have involved the appropriate people in assessing the risks and determining the likelihood and impact of those risks. You have been testing for three months and have been able to mitigate 75% of the high risk items. You have two weeks left in testing and you now do not expect to be able to complete all the items on the high-risk
mitigation list, never mind any from the medium or low-risk lists.
What is the most effective action you should take? [3]
You have directed one of your testers to construct a "smoke test" to execute against new builds prior to starting formal testing. This is an example of which software development lifecycle activity?
[1]
Your organisation, a high-street bank, is to embark on a project that delivers a major update to the design of its website and also involves functional and performance improvementchanges to its backend core banking engine. It has traditionally used the V-model software development lifecycle to deliver its projects but has now decided to start migrating to Agile (SCRUM). However, after considering the organisation's current processes and skills plus the importance of the project, senior management has decided to continue to use the V-model approach for the backend core banking engine changes. For the same reasons, they have decided to implement a hybrid model for the website updates. The website updates will begin with a traditional requirement definition phase and will then transition to an Agile (SCRUM) approach for development and testing. The organisation's test policy mandates that all tests must be fully traceable to business requirements to satisfy the regular audits that take place in the banking sector. Which TWO test management activities would be MOST appropriate for the new project?
Which of the following is likely to occur if reviewers do not have an adequate level of technicalknowledge? [1]
Which one of the following options would help ensure success in using an Exploratory Testing approach? SELECT ONE OPTION
Referring to SCENARIO 2 It has been agreed that Project 1 will be delivered using an Agile approach, with user stories delivered across three sprints, each lasting 4 weeks. The programme manager is concerned about RISK 3 and wants the Master Test Plan to specify an effective test process improvement approach.
Which of the following is the best test process improvement approach for Project 1 ? SELECT ONE OPTION
A tester has just completed a challenging assignment as the sole tester in an agile development team and is now being reassigned. Which of the following is most likely to DEMOTIVATE this tester?
SELECT ONE OPTION
You plan to use a heavyweight approach to risk-based testing on a safety-critical system and have the following information available for each documented product risk:
The estimated cost of testing the risk
How likely a failure would arise for the risk item
How much the failure would cost, in terms of lossWhich technique would be MOST suitable?
You have been assigned t o a project that has a very tight schedule. In fact, given your first analysis you do not think the planned test execution can be completed within the schedule There is no time allowed for defect fixing or for repeating tests. Regression testing has been left out of the planning entirely There is no time to develop test automation. The team has agreed that this Is not the way to run a project, yet they are stuck with the current schedule
Given this information what is the best way to proceed with the testing to try to meet the deadline with the best outcome1?
Which of the following Is a way in which risk analysis drives test analysis?
Your team has been given the following test objective Ensure that the users are happier with this version than they were with the last version?
What is wrong with the way this is defined?
You have decided to help your team improve their skills. One of their assignments is to mentor a junior member of the team Which competency should you expect the mentor to develop during this exercise?
You are looking to Improve the efficiency of testing. The developers have been claiming that the majority of defect reports they receive are invalid either due to the test environment or because the tester did not follow the right steps In a standard defect management process where should you look for more information about these invalid defects?
You are working on a project where the business part of the organization works traditionally with defined requirements, but the development team follows an Agile model Neither team plans to change their approach What is the proper name for this type of project approach''
You have been asked to make a recommendation on deployment readiness on the software your team has been testing.You have the following metrics:
Given this information what is a critical metric you are missing?
You tend to be conservative in your project estimations because you know how many things can go wrong and extend the schedule. You manager is not happy with your estimates and thinks you are being too negative with your numbers and not trying hard enough Which estimation method should you use to provide your manager with a positive' number while still also providing the number you think is more realistic?
You are working on a project that is having problems with regressions. With each release of software given to the test team. 50% of the defects found are actually regressions. To combat this you have decided to implement test automation. You have given your automation team the following goal
'Implement lest automation to automate 90% of the manual regression tests before the product release date.’’
Which of the following is likely an issue with this goal being defined as "SMART?
You have assembled the following cost of quality numbers 1 000 defects were found prior to release and 100 were found after.
Given this information what should you conclude?