Exam 6: ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level- Test Manager (2012)

Consider a defect report and assume that a part of its lifecycle includes the following states: New: Is the initial state Working: Means that the developers are addressing the defect in order to produce a fix for the defect Clarification: Means that the developers need more information from the tester to address the defect and produce a fix for the defect and the tester is working to provide this information to the developers Verification: Means that a fix for the defect has been produced and the tester is running the adequate tests to verify whether the fix solves the defect Closed: is the final state Which of the following answers represents an invalid sequence of states that can't lead the bug report to the "Closed" state? Number of correct responses: 1

Which of the following statements describing how identified product quality risks should be mitigated and managed, is true?

Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is true? Number of correct responses: 1

After the presentation, you are asked to explain the chart. Assume you have applied a full risk-based testing strategy. Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the pie chart? Number of correct responses: 1

Assume you are a Test Manager involved in system testing of a CRM application for a Pay-TV company. Currently the application is able to support a proper number of users assuring the required responsiveness. Since the business is expected to grow, you have been asked to evaluate the ability of the application to grow to support more users while maintaining the same responsiveness. Which of the following tools would you expect to be the most useful at performing this evaluation? Number of correct responses: 1

Which of the following statements describing the consequences of specifying test conditions at a detailed level is NOT true? Number of correct responses: 1

Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a motivating factor for testers?

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?

You are not confident with the assessment of the risk level and you suspect that it will be possible to find high-priority bugs in low-risk areas. Furthermore, the period for test execution is very short. Your goal is to test all the product risks in a risk-based way, while assuring that each product risk gets at least some amount of testing. Which of the following answers describes the best test execution schedule in this scenario?

You are the Test Manager of a new project that will have three formal levels of testing: unit, integration and system testing. The testing strategy you decide to adopt a blend of risk-based testing and reactive testing strategies. Which of the following answers describes the most consistent example of implementation of this test strategy during the execution of the system tests? Number of correct responses: 1

Consider an agile team adopting Extreme Programming (XP) with five developers and one tester without any coding experience. To which of the following activities would you expect the tester will contribute most? Number of correct responses: 1

Assume that no additional product risks have been identified during the first week of test execution. Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the residual risks associated with the identified product risks, at the end of the first week of test execution? Number of correct responses: 1

Assume you are working on a defect management process to be used by a software organization to track the current status of the defects reports for several projects. When a defect is found for investigation a defect report is created in "Opened" state that is the unique initial state. The defect report status has also a unique finale state that is the "Closed" state. The following state transition diagram describes the states of this defect management process: where only the initial ("Opened") and final ("Closed") states are indicated while the remaining states (V, W, X, Y, Z) have yet to be named. Which of the following assignments would you expect to best complete the defect management process? Number of correct responses: 1

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 What is the MINIMUM number of test conditions that must be added to fulfill both the EXCR1 and EXCR2 exit criteria?

Assume that the following test cases have been executed at the end of the first week of test execution: TC-001, TC-002 and TC-007. All these tests are 'passes'. What is the MINIMUM number of the remaining test cases that must be successfully executed to fulfill the EX1 exit criteria?

Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a demotivating factor for testers? (Choose two.)

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

Which of the following factors could negatively influence a review? Number of correct responses: 1

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?

You are the Test Manager of a new project aimed at developing a software system that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard. The project will follow a V-Model software development life cycle and it will have four formal levels of testing: component, integration, system and acceptance testing. You must produce the test plan documentation for this project by providing an adequate coordination across the four levels of testing in order to assure auditability. Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe how to organize the test plan?