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?

A. 1- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel 2- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents 3- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card 4- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card

B. 1- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card 2- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents 3- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card 4- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel

C. 1- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card 2- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card 3- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents 4- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel

D. 1- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card 2- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card 3- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents 4- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel

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?

A. The system test phase should start when all the requirements are frozen.

B. You should allocate a large effort for system testing during the first three iterations.

C. You should allocate all the effort for the system test phase only in the last iteration.

D. You should apply the same test strategy as used in a sequential life cycle model.

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 nonfunctional characteristics, especially reliability.

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

A. A model-based technique based on the creation of operational profiles

B. Ambiguity reviews

C. Test condition analysis

D. Cause-effect graphing

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?

A. Don't prepare any test and just run the regression test suite to check that the new features don't introduce regression.

B. Make reasonable assumptions about the missing details and design lightweight tests that can be easily updated during test execution.

C. Don't design any test until the test execution starts, then communicate that test execution is blocked due to incomplete requirements.

D. Even if there are only few details missing, escalate the risk to the project manager without preparing any tests.

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?

A. Produce a single master test plan that covers in detail all four levels, describing the particular activities for all test levels.

B. Produce a master test plan that covers three levels (component, integration, system test) and a separate acceptance test plan.

C. Produce a master test plan describing the relationship between the four levels, and four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level.

D. Produce four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level, without a master test plan.

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

A. The trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution

B. The defect component information

C. The lifecycle phase in which the defect has been introduced

D. The defect removal efficiency information

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.

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

A. In the STEP model, tests validate the requirements and use cases when they are developed.

B. The STEP model stresses defect detection and demonstration of capability, whereas the defect prevention is a secondary potential goal of testing.

C. The STEP model assures that the system requirements specification and the test design specification processes don't overlap.

D. In the STEP model, testware design occurs after coding.

Assume you are the Test Manager in charge of independent testing for avionics applications.

You are in charge of testing for a project to implement three different CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item):

a BOOT-X CSCI that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard a DIAG-X CSCI that must be certified at level C of the DO-178B standard a DRIV-X CSCI that must be certified at level A of the DO-178B standard

These are three different software modules written in C language to run on a specific hardware platform.

You have been asked to select a single code coverage tool to perform the mandatory code coverage measurements, in order to meet the structural coverage criteria prescribed by the DO-178B standard. This tool must be qualified as a verification tool under DO-178B.

Since there are significant budget constraints to purchase this tool, you are evaluating an open-source tool that is able to provide different types of code coverage. This tool meets perfectly your technical needs in terms of the programming language and the specific hardware platform (it supports also the specific C-compiler).

The source code of the tool is available.

Your team could easily customize the tool to meet the project needs. This tool is not qualified as a verification tool under the DO-178B.

Which of the following are the three main concerns related to that open-source tool selection? (Choose three.)

A. Does the tool support all the types of code coverage required from the three levels A, B, C of the DO178B standard?

B. Does the tool have a good general usability?

C. What are the costs to qualify the tool as a verification tool under the DO-178B?

D. Is the installation procedure of the tool easy?

E. Does the tool require a system with more than 4GB of RAM memory?

F. Is the licensing scheme of the tool compatible with the confidentiality needs of the avionics company?

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?

A. Mary

B. Bob

C. Mark

D. Dave