ISTQB Advance Level Test Manager

Which of the following factors indicate most that detailed test conditions should be specified for system testing?

• Test design and test execution is outsourced

• Test basis is changing frequently

• Domain experts are available for consultation during test design

• Test basis is of low quality

Scenario 1:

Assume that you are working for an ambitious start-up. They are creating a system that will provide customized loyalty and rewards programs for small- and medium-sized companies selling to customers on the Web. These companies enroll themselves on the system’s web store. This allows the companies to create customized buttons, to be placed on their websites, that let customers enroll in the companies’ loyalty and rewards program. Each subsequent purchase earns points, and both companies and their customers can manage the program; for example, to determine the number of points required to receive a free product or service.

Your employer’s marketing staff are heavily promoting the system, offering aggressive discounts on the first year’s fees to sign up inaugural companies. The marketing materials state that the service will be highly reliable and extremely fast for companies and their customers.

At this time, the requirements are complete, and development of the software has just begun. The current schedule will allow companies and their customers to start enrolling in three months.

Your employer intends to use cloud computing resources to host this service, and to have no hardware resources other than ordinary office computers for its developers, testers, and other engineers and managers. Industry-standard web-based application software components will be used to build the system.

Consider the following risk item that was identified during the quality risk analysis process:

Customized enrollment buttons for a company’s website are not assigned the correct URL for that company’s loyalty program.

Assume that you have used traceability to determine the logical test cases that cover this risk item.

Which of the following is a positive logical test that is complete, is correct, and covers this risk item?

• Click rapidly on company enrollment button to see what happens

• Click on URL for our home page, check that home page displays

• Click on company enrollment button; verify that you go to that company’s enrollment page

• Click on company enrollment button; verify that you go to our home page

Scenario 1:

Assume that you are working for an ambitious start-up. They are creating a system that will provide customized loyalty and rewards programs for small- and medium-sized companies selling to customers on the Web. These companies enroll themselves on the system’s web store. This allows the companies to create customized buttons, to be placed on their websites, that let customers enroll in the companies’ loyalty and rewards program. Each subsequent purchase earns points, and both companies and their customers can manage the program; for example, to determine the number of points required to receive a free product or service.

Your employer’s marketing staff is heavily promoting the system, offering aggressive discounts on the first year’s fees to sign up inaugural companies. The marketing materials state that the service will be highly reliable and extremely fast for companies and their customers.

At this time, the requirements are complete, and development of the software has just begun. The current schedule will allow companies and their customers to start enrolling in three months.

Your employer intends to use cloud computing resources to host this service, and to have no hardware resources other than ordinary office computers for its developers, testers, and other engineers and managers. Industry-standard web-based application software components will be used to build the system.

You are following a risk-based testing strategy, where likelihood and impact are both assessed on a five-point scale ranging from very low to very high. Consider the following risk item that was identified during the quality risk analysis process:

Customized enrollment buttons for a company’s website are not assigned the correct URL for that company’s loyalty program.

Assume that technical project stakeholders have assessed the likelihood of this risk at a medium level.

Given only the information above, which of the following statements is certainly true?

• This risk item should be assessed as a very high impact level risk

• The test cases associated with this risk item must be run first in the test execution period

• The test cases associated with this risk item must be run toward the middle of the test execution period

• A large number of test cases should be associated with this risk item, based on impact

Which of the following metrics are best suited to be included in a test progress report for unit test execution?

• Defect detection percentage (DDP) of unit test

• Planned versus actual defects reported

• Unit test time vs. integration test time

• Number of test conditions identified

• Planned versus actual coverage achieved

Which of the following is an accurate summary of the test closure activity “test completion check”?

• Test completion check ensures that all test work is concluded as planned

• Test completion check ensures that all important lessons learned are documented

• Test completion check ensures that all test work products are stored in the configuration management system

• Test completion check ensures that plans are established to ensure that good practices can be repeated

Assume that you are working for an ambitious start-up. They are creating a system that will provide customized loyalty and rewards programs for small- and medium-sized businesses selling to customers on the web. These companies enroll themselves on the system’s web store. This allows the companies to create customized buttons, to be placed on their websites, that let customers to enroll in the companies’ loyalty and rewards program. Each subsequent purchase earns points, and both companies and their customers can manage the program; for example, to determine the number of points required to receive a free product or service.

Your employer’s marketing staff is heavily promoting the system, offering aggressive discounts on the first year’s fees to sign up inaugural companies. The marketing materials state that the service will be highly reliable and extremely fast for companies and their customers.

At this time, the requirements are complete, and development of the software has just begun. The current schedule will allow companies and their customers to enroll starting in three months.

Your employer intends to use cloud computing resources to host this service, and to have no hardware resources other than ordinary office computers for its developers, testers, and other engineers and managers. Industry-standard web-based application software components will be used to build the system.

Assume that the project has completed the initial release, and the system has been in use by companies and their customers for a month now. Your team used a blended risk-based, requirements-based, and reactive testing strategy. In the quality risk analysis, button customization was assessed as the lowest-risk area, while enrollment was assessed as the highest-risk area. You are implementing a retrospective for the testing work.

Which of the following areas should be considered in this retrospective?

• Evaluating whether significant problems have been reported by users in button customization

• Determining the level of detail required for enrollment, customization, and point management test cases

• Identifying enrollment problems that are affecting companies or their customers

• Delivering the known defects and failed tests to the system support team

• Measuring the coverage of the enrollment requirements and reporting that to project and business stakeholders

Which of the following statements BEST describes how risk-based testing responds to risks?

• When tests find defects, they increase the quality of the system under test

• Functional testing addresses product risks, while non-functional testing addresses quality risks

• The test manager determines which test levels to apply based on project risks

• The test team designs, implements, and executes tests to mitigate quality risks

Assume that you are working for an ambitious start-up. They are creating a system that will provide customized loyalty and rewards programs for small- and medium-sized companies selling to customers on the Web. These companies enroll themselves on the system’s web store. This allows the companies to create customized buttons, to be placed on their websites, that let customers enroll in the companies’ loyalty and rewards program. Each subsequent purchase earns points, and both companies and their customers can manage the program; for example, to determine the number of points required to receive a free product or service.

Your employer’s marketing staff are heavily promoting the system, offering aggressive discounts on the first year’s fees to sign up inaugural companies. The marketing materials state that the service will be highly reliable and extremely fast for companies and their customers.

At this time, the requirements are complete, and development of the software has just begun. The current schedule will allow companies and their customers to start enrolling in three months.

Your employer intends to use cloud computing resources to host this service, and to have no hardware resources other than ordinary office computers for its developers, testers, and other engineers and managers. Industry-standard web-based application software components will be used to build the system.

Which of the following are product quality risks for this system?

• The start-up runs out of money before testing starts

• Cloud computing resources are not available quickly enough to support project schedules

• The loyalty points calculated are incorrect

• Overly aggressive discounts result in a liquidity crisis for the company during the first year

• The system has excessive downtime due to memory leaks

Which of the following statements is the LEAST appropriate description of how identified product quality risks should be mitigated and managed?

• The choice of regulatory standard to be followed should be influenced by the perceived level of risk

• Tests should be designed, implemented, and executed in order to address perceived risks

• The effort associated with developing and executing tests should be proportional to the level of perceived risk

• The priority of the development and execution of tests should be based on the perceived level of risk

Which of the following is NOT a practical technique for test prioritization and effort allocation?

• Ambiguity reviews identify and eliminate ambiguities in the requirements

• Individual testers decide what to test based on their discovery of defects within the test basis

• Test condition analysis involves a close reading of prioritized requirements to identify the test conditions to cover

• Cause-effect graphing identifies a test set that achieves 100% functional coverage of the test basis