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Question 1

A chart showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution during system testing is also available. The chart shows that the daily closure period is consistently and significantly above the rolling closure period for a long period of the system testing phase. Almost all defects found during system testing have been related to the system as a whole, not related to single units or integrations issues. Almost all quality risks have been addressed during the unit and integration testing phase and no residual quality risks were present in the integrated system. This has been confirmed by exploratory testing sessions performed during system testing, targeted at finding defects in these quality risk areas. Based on the given information only, which one of the following areas would you expect to be considered more in the retrospective meeting in order to be improved?

K3 3 credits

AThe requirements review

BThe defect management process

CThe quality risk analysis process

DThe system design and architecture design reviews

Answer : B

Question 2

You are the Test Manager on a project following an iterative life-cycle model. The project should consist of nine iterations of one month duration each. It is planned to develop the most important features to have a stable core of the application in the first three iterations and to add the additional features in the last six iterations.

At the beginning of the first iteration, only a draft version of the requirements specification document for the core features is available. Assume that during each of the first three iterations, the chosen features are fully completed and unit tested.

Which of the following statements is true in this context?

K4 3 credits

AThe system test phase should start when all the requirements are frozen

BYou should allocate a large effort for system testing during the first three iterations

CYou should allocate all the effort for the system test phase only in the last iteration

DYou should apply the same test strategy as used in a sequential life cycle model

Answer : B

Question 3

Which of the following answers describes a factor that may reduce the effort spent when using distributed test teams without negatively affecting system quality?

K2 1 credit

ADifficulties in communication between the distributed test teams due to time zone differences

BWith several distributed test teams, every team assumes that some test conditions are covered by other teams but actually no one covers them

CWith several distributed test teams, two or more teams assume some test conditions are covered by their team and their team alone. But all of the teams actually cover them

DWith several distributed test teams, all of the distributed test teams use a single unified test dashboard

Answer : D

Question 4

Assume you have some data related to confirmation testing during system testing of a past project.

In that project 240 bug reports have been opened once, 80 were opened twice, 10 were opened three times and no bug reports have been opened more than three times.

You estimate that a bug report, which has failed its confirmation test, costs, on average, 3 personhours.

Which of the following statements correctly describe the value of these confirmatory testing activities based on cost of quality?

K3 2 credits

A300 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of internal failure

B340 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of external failure

C340 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of internal failure

D300 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of detection

Answer : A

Question 5

For which of the following activities would the costs be classified as a cost of detection? K2 1 credit

AWriting test specifications according to the test design

BTraining developers to better understand the new features of the coding language they will use on the project

CRe-running a test case, during the system testing phase, to verify that a fix eliminates a previously found defect

DFixing field failures

Answer : A

Question 6

In the test strategy document your organization declares:

- To adopt a V-model development lifecycle, with three formal levels of testing. unit, integration and system testing

- To use a blended risk-based and regression-averse testing strategy for each level of testing The following is an excerpt of the ''approach'' section for the system test plan document of a new project:

''Testing will only use manual tests. Due to the short period of time for test execution, the following activities will be performed in parallel with test execution: Test planning, test analysis and test design.

Basic metrics will be taken for test effort (i.e. person-hours), test cases executed (passed/failed), and incidents (no more metrics, such as code coverage, will be collected).'' In the system test plan, no deviations from the test strategy are described. Based only on the given information, which of the following statements is true?

K4 3 credits

AThe approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the test strategy

BThe approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the risk-based testing strategy, but it is inconsistent with the regression testing strategy

CThe approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the regression testing strategy, but it is inconsistent with the risk-based testing strategy

DThe approach described the system test plan document is inconsistent with both the risk-based and regression testing strategies

Answer : D

Question 7

Assume you are currently working on a project developing a system where functional

requirements are very well specified. Unfortunately non-functional requirements do almost not exist.

You are the Test Manager. You have to choose a technique for test selection that allows testing of non-functional characteristics, especially reliability.

Which of the following techniques for test selection do you expect being most useful in this scenario?

K2 1 credit

AA model-based technique based on the creation of operational profiles

BAmbiguity reviews

CTest condition analysis

DCause-effect graphing

Answer : A

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