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

Assume you are managing the system testing phase of a project. The system test execution period is scheduled to twenty weeks. All tests are manual tests. You are following a risk-driven test approach. During the last staff meeting the project manager tells you new deadlines that will not allow completion of all the system tests. Which of the following would you expect to be the best way to respond to this situation?

Which of the following statements, about the test reporting activities for a project adopting an iterative lifecycle model with very short iterations (e.g. two weeks iterations), is correct? Number of correct responses: 1

During the follow-up phase the following conditions are checked: X1. The code has been completely reviewed. X2. All the identified defects have been correctly fixed and the modified code has been compiled successfully and run through all the static analyzers used by the project without warnings and errors. X3. The modified code is available under the configuration management system with a new version number for the specified CI. If these conditions are fulfilled then the review process terminates. Which of the following characteristics of a formal review is missing in this description?

In your organization the following tools of the same vendor are currently in use: a requirements management tool, a test management tool and a bug tracking tool. You are the Test Manager. You are currently evaluating a test automation tool of the same vendor (to complete the vendor's tool suite) against an interesting open-source test automation tool under the GNU GPL (General Public License). There are no initial costs associated to that open-source tool. Which of the following statements associated to the selection of the open-source tool is correct in this scenario? Number of correct responses: 1

Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is true?

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

Which of the following information would you expect to be the most useful to perform a defect clustering analysis?

Your test team consists of four members (Mary, Bob, Mark, Dave) with different interpersonal skills. The following skills assessment spreadsheet shows the characteristics of the team members with respect to a list of interpersonal-skills (for each characteristic only the member with the highest level of that characteristic is indicated and marked with 'X'): On the next project a member of your test team will have to perform some routine tasks requiring collaboration with other teams. Who in your test team would you expect to be most suitable at doing these tasks?

The following are the requirements identified as "critical": REQ-SEL-001. The user shall be able to combine all the three products with all the four durations to define an item to purchase REQ-SEL-002. The user shall be able to add a maximum of six different items to the shopping cart REQ-PUR-001. The user shall be able to purchase all the items in the shopping cart using a credit voucher REQ-PUR-002. The user shall be able to purchase all the items in the shopping cart using the available credit already charged on the smartcard REQ-PUR-003. The user shall be able to purchase all the items in the shopping cart using all the accepted credit cards (Visa, MasterCard and Great Wall Card) REG-LOGO-001. The user shall be able to logout (by clicking the logout button) from both the "select" and "purchase" pages going back to the "browse" page (anonymous navigation) Moreover the following quality risk item has been identified as "critical": QR-P1. The web customer portal might not be able to provide the expected response time (less than 10 sec) for the purchase transactions under a load of up-to 1000 concurrent users Test analysis for system testing has just begun and the following test conditions have been identified: TC-SEL-01. Test the combinations of products and durations to define an item to purchase TC-SEL-02. Test the maximum number of items, which can be added to the shopping cart TC-PUR-01. Test the purchase of an item TC-PUR-02. Test the purchase of an item with the credit charged on the smartcard 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, is correct, and covers the REG-LOGO-001 requirement? Number of correct responses: 1

You are following a risk-based testing strategy. The test execution time is very limited. Assume that all the product risk items require more or less the same level of test effort. Which of the following answers describes the best execution schedule in this scenario?

In the next two months some new features will be constantly added to new releases of a project you are working on as Test Manager. You have identified as one of the main project risks, that the requirements specification will still be incomplete when your team starts the test design and implementation phase. Some requirements will most likely be completed too late to allow a proper test preparation. You and your test team have already worked on several similar past projects in the same organization. Which one of the following options would you expect to be the most effective at mitigating this risk?

For which of the following activities would the costs be classified as a cost of detection? Number of correct responses: 1

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

You are using this skills assessment spreadsheet in order to define a training development plan for your test team. Your objective is to fill the skill gaps by having at least a team member rated as an expert for each skill identified for the "technical expertise" and "testing skills" sections, and with the ability to train the other team members. Considering the budget constraints you can send only one person to a training course. Based only on the given information, which of the following answers would you expect to be the best option to achieve your objective?

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?

Which of the following information would you expect to be the most useful to perform a defect clustering analysis? Number of correct responses: 1

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?

You are performing a quality risk analysis for a CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item) used to implement a CBIT (Continuous Built-In Test) module of a safety-critical system. During the quality risk analysis, you are trying to identify the ways in which failures of the CBIT module can occur, for each of them trying to determine the potential causes and likely effects, and the risk level (calculated as the product of three factors: severity, occurrence and detection). Which of the following risk analysis techniques are you working with?

Which of the following statements represents the most effective contribution of the stakeholders to the completion of the failure mode analysis table? Number of correct responses: 1