WorksheetsISTQB Advance Level Test Manager 2nd
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 33mins
Which of the following is NOT associated with tester motivation?
Recognition
Management approval
Adequate rewards
Pairwise testing
IEEE 10440-1993 specifies a standard for defect reporting. Which of the following attributes should be in a defect report as per ISTQB Syllabus?
Complete, concise, accurate and objective report
Compete and accurate. Does not have to be concise or objective.
Complete and objective. Does not have to be accurate.
Accurate. Does not have to be complete, concise or objective.
Which of the following best describes a difference between a sequential development model and an iterative one?
A sequential development model will always take longer than an iterative model, for a similar sized project.
A sequential development model guarantees that the customer will like the product, while the iterative model does not.
A sequential development model involves the users in testing mostly at the end of development, while the iterative model concentrates on the user perspective throughout development.
A sequential development model requires significant regression testing, while an iterative model does not.
Which of the following are included in test plans?
I. A schedule of test activities
II. The set of test cases to be run.
III. The roles and responsibilities of stakeholders.
IV. The test data.
V. The test results and incidents raised.
II and III
II, IV and V
I and III
Which of the following would give the best measure of progress against product quality?
The number of tests run against those planned.
The turnaround time for defects.
The number of high priority defects outstanding.
The time taken to run each test.
In which order should the following test management documentation be
created?
I. Project master test plan
II. Test strategy
III. Test policy
IV. Level test plan
I, II, III, IV
II, I, III, IV
III, II, I, IV
I, IV, III, II
Which of the following is a test policy statement?
ToolX within the Efficient tool set will be required for this project.
Projects across the company will make use of the Efficient toolset.
Training will be required in ToolX for staff on this project.
ToolX will be required for a period of one month.
The aircrew of a national air defence force has requested changes to the existing aviation software that provides on-board information about the combat environment. The air force is currently engaged in a peace-keeping mission in another country and has come under unexpected threats.
The development life cycle is the V model. The software house needs to change their test management process to ensure delivery at the right time and quality.
The software changes are coming in as the aircrew request them, as a result of their engagements with hostile forces.
The aircrew have requested that the changes are made as quickly as possible. The project manager has decided to revisit the test management process. The changes will come as small change requests. The team have worked on the project for over 25 years, with little staff turnover.
The project manager has asked for your advice on test estimation. Which of the following would you recommend?
Conduct a test point analysis on each change request definition.
Analyse data from previous projects to find changes similar to each change request, and use this to estimate the time required.
Ask the developers how long the change will take to implement and allocate 50 per cent of this to testing.
Ask the tester who will be doing the testing for a best guess.
Which of the following is a typical characteristic of testing for a safety critical system project?
Traceability of test results to regulations
Delivery date met through extensive bug deferral
Project insurance used to reduce the need for testing
Low complexity of the system
Which of the following statements captures a key difference between preventive and reactive test strategies?
Test analysts are involved earlier in the lifecycle with preventive strategies
Test analysts are involved earlier in the lifecycle with reactive strategies
Test analysts invest more time in coverage analysis with reactive strategies
Test analysts invest more time in exploratory testing with preventive strategies
Assume you are testing a banking application. You plan to use production data for testing. The production data includes personal information classified as private and confidential by the laws governing the organization.
Which of the following tasks might be part of test implementation?
Identifying security-related quality risks
Writing a privacy test plan
Anonymizing test data
Surveying beta testers
A Software Company hired a new test manager to manage their testing department. There are 20 testers in the department and 3 of them are located in a different city than the rest of the team. Test team is expected to receive a new build next week for qualification. The project has high visibility from upper management and it is very important for the test manager to complete the qualification on-time. Three (3) new servers were ordered previously to setup the test environment for this new project. There are only 3 days left to begin testing and environment management (EM) team says they are busy with another project at the moment and setup will not be done until next week. If the network is not setup, testing will be impacted.
What is your advice to the new test manager?
Have a meeting with EM Manager and Project Manager and explain the situation and the project risk if servers are not setup in 3 days. Let the project manager make a decision.
Wait till EM team is done with their project.
Request testers to do the testing on old systems even though they do not have correct pre-requisite software.
Hire two additional testers to complete the project on-time.
According to the 1STQB Advanced Syllabus, which of the following is a black-box test design technique?
Boundary value analysis
Exploratory testing
Statement coverage
Dynamic analysis
Which of the following statements are true about risks of introducing test automation tools?
I. Poorly designed test cases automated “as is” results in execution errors.
II. Reduce defect detection due to limited manual testing by a tester.
III. Too many dependencies to integrate test tools and test tool limitations.
IV. Unrealistic expectations from management.
I, III true
II, IV true
All of them are true
None of them are true
Which of the following ways of monitoring test progress is usually measured subjectively?
Remaining level of quality risk
Coverage of the test basis
Confidence in product quality
Defect discovery and resolution
What is accuracy testing?
Testing with respect to user needs, requirements, and business processes conducted to determine whether a system satisfies the acceptance criteria.
Simulated or actual operational testing by potential users, customers, or an iTidependent test team at the developers’ site, but outside the development organization.
Testing to determine the capability of the software product to provide the right or agreed results or effects with the needed degree of precision.
Testing to determine the ease by which users with disabilities
Which of the following is the most independent approach to testing?
Developer self-testing
Outsource testing
User testing
Pair programming
System test closure activities occur;
I. After system exit criteria are met.
II. After acceptance testing is over.
III. After all project activities are finished.
IV. After the execution of all test cases.
I, II and IV are true
II and IV are true
I, II, III are true
All of them are true
Which of the following is a typical method of testing progress?
Percentage of units coded
Percentage defect breakdown by severity
Percentage of test cases run and passed
Percentage defect breakdown by priority
A software development organization wants to introduce some specific improvements to its test process. Currently, most of their testing resources are focussed on system testing. They are developing embedded software, and do not have a simulation environment to enable them to execute software modules on the development host. They have been advised that introducing inspections and reviews could be the most appropriate step forward.
Which of the following is an example of testing as part of the requirements specification phase?
A requirements review meeting
A business analyst eliciting requirements)
Performing acceptance tests against requirements
A test report showing requirements coverage
When selecting/hiring team members to an existing team, team dynamics must be considered. Which of the following should be considered when selecting staff to a team?
I. Consider mix of technical skills and personality
II. Each person should have a defined role
III. Cross-training within teams
IV. Knowledge of software lifecycle
I, II and III true
I, II true
IV true
All of the above
Which of the following statements are true?
I. Test automation tools can be used only for one project.
II. To avoid human data comparison mistakes, test data comparison tool can be used.
III. A company can utilize multiple test tools to efficiently perform their test activities.
IV. Purchasing suite of test tools from the same vendor guarantees that the tools will work together.
II, III true. I,IV false
I, II true. III,IV false
II, III, IV true. I false
I, II, IV true. III false
Which of the following is a test template that contains a section entitled “Features Not to Be Tested”?
Test plan
Test item transmittal report
Test design specification
Test policy
Which of the following is a cost of quality that accounts for a portion of the testing budget?
Internal failure
Probe effect
Project risk
Which of the following can be a task in the test closure activities?
Writing a test summary report
Writing an incident report
Writing a test plan
Writing a test log
Select the correct statement regarding test planning and control.
Test controlling is a one-time activity that will occur at the beginning of the test effort.
Test planning includes identifying test activities and resources required for the test effort.
Complex relationships (many to many, one to many) cannot exist among test conditions, test cases and test procedures.
Risk and Test coverage is not a metric for test planning and control.
Scenario: You work for a company that produces Ground X-ray machines and have just been assigned to work as the Test Manager on a newly-started project developing PC-based software to interpret the output from such machines using complex mathematical formulae. The software will be developed to work with the output from all Ground X-ray machines (including those from other manufacturers),
which output the X-ray data to an agreed international standard (note that this standard is currently in the process of being updated). The unique setting point of the new software will be that it provides users with a graphical user interface; while current similar software packages (both from your company and others) do not have this feature.It has been decided that the V life cycle model shall be used, using the following development phases.
# Analyze and Specify Software Requirements
# Specify Software Design
# Detailed Component Design
# Coding
Given the following test phases:
i. Component Testing
ii. Non-Functional Testing
iii. Component Integration Testing
iv. Hardware – Software Integration Testing
v. System Testing
Vi. Regression Testing
Assuming that acceptance testing will be included in your project test plan, which of the above would you also include?
ii, iii, iv
ii, iv, vi
I, iii, v
i, v, vi
Scenario: You work for a company that produces Ground X-ray machines and have just been assigned to work as the Test Manager on a newly-started project developing PC-based software to interpret the output from such machines using complex mathematical formulae. The software will be developed to work with the output from all Ground X-ray machines (including those from other manufacturers),
which output the X-ray data to an agreed international standard (note that this standard is currently in the process of being updated). The unique setting point of the new software will be that it provides users with a graphical user interface; while current similar software packages (both from your company and others) do not have this feature.It has been decided that the V life cycle model shall be used, using the following development phases.
# Analyze and Specify Software Requirements
# Specify Software Design
# Detailed Component Design
# Coding
Which ONE of the following do you believe is the greatest risk to this software?
The software will not be compatible with other manufacturer’s machines
The complex mathematical formulae will not be implemented correctly
The software will not be compatible with the new international standard
The usability of the graphical user interface is poor
Scenario: You work for a company that produces Ground X-ray machines and have just been assigned to work as the Test Manager on a newly-started project developing PC-based software to interpret the output from such machines using complex mathematical formulae. The software will be developed to work with the output from all Ground X-ray machines (including those from other manufacturers),
which output the X-ray data to an agreed international standard (note that this standard is currently in the process of being updated). The unique setting point of the new software will be that it provides users with a graphical user interface; while current similar software packages (both from your company and others) do not have this feature.It has been decided that the V life cycle model shall be used, using the following development phases.
# Analyze and Specify Software Requirements
# Specify Software Design
# Detailed Component Design
# Coding
Which ONE of the following do you believe would add greatest value to the testing on this project?
Employing external usability testing expertise
Using inspections on the development outputs
Auditing compliance with the X-ray data standard
Requiring 100% decision coverage of all code
Scenario: You work for a company that produces Ground X-ray machines and have just been assigned to work as the Test Manager on a newly-started project developing PC-based software to interpret the output from such machines using complex mathematical formulae. The software will be developed to work with the output from all Ground X-ray machines (including those from other manufacturers),
which output the X-ray data to an agreed international standard (note that this standard is currently in the process of being updated). The unique setting point of the new software will be that it provides users with a graphical user interface; while current similar software packages (both from your company and others) do not have this feature.It has been decided that the V life cycle model shall be used, using the following development phases.
# Analyze and Specify Software Requirements
# Specify Software Design
# Detailed Component Design
# Coding
Which ONE of would you choose to join your test team?
With a background in X-ray interpretation formulae
Qualified to ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst level
Experience in GUI test automation
Experienced in usability testing
Scenario: You work for a company that produces Ground X-ray machines and have just been assigned to work as the Test Manager on a newly-started project developing PC-based software to interpret the output from such machines using complex mathematical formulae. The software will be developed to work with the output from all Ground X-ray machines (including those from other manufacturers),
which output the X-ray data to an agreed international standard (note that this standard is currently in the process of being updated). The unique setting point of the new software will be that it provides users with a graphical user interface; while current similar software packages (both from your company and others) do not have this feature.It has been decided that the V life cycle model shall be used, using the following development phases.
# Analyze and Specify Software Requirements
# Specify Software Design
# Detailed Component Design
# Coding
Scenario: A rival company has announced that they are developing a competing software product and their published date for release is one month ahead of your planned release date, which is currently b months away. The project manager- has been told to move your release date to just 4 month’s time.
Which ONE of the following suggestions would you support to accomplish this reduction:
Change to an agile life cycle
Increase resources for development and testing
Change to a two stage incremental life cycle with the formulae and the user interface as the two stages
Reduce the planned testing
Which of the following is the primary test basis for system testing?
High-level design specification
Low-level design specification
Requirements specification
Defect reports from earlier releases
You are working as the system test manager on a large project. Following an incremental lifecycle model, the development team plans to deliver three bundles of features, labeled Critical, Important, and Enhancing, to the test team on the first working day of March, April, and May, respectively. Which of the following statements is true?
There is no need to write a system test plan for a project that is following an incremental lifecycle model, as such plans are only written for V-model projects.
The system test plan should include an entry criterion that requires a feature complete build delivered to system test prior to any test execution.
The system test plan should govern which specific features are included in each of the three bundles, and disallow any changes in that feature selection.
The system test plan should specify how the test team will perform regression testing for the Critical and Important features when the Enhancing bundle of features is delivered.
You are working on a project to develop a browser-based information system for a state legislature. You are the system test manager. The system test team is responsible for functional and non-functional testing. During the requirements specification period, the test team leads a quality risk analysis effort for the project. The quality risk analysis identifies over 25 different defects in the requirements specification, including a situation where the number of concurrent users of the system was significantly under-estimated. Which of the following is a way in which this early testing activity directly benefits test execution?
By raising the stature of the test team in the eyes of project management.
By demonstrating the fallibility of the business analysts who wrote the requirements specification.
By providing reasons to cancel the project prior to wasting too much money on i
By preventing bugs that would otherwise arise during test execution.
Assume you are responsible for system testing of an embedded system that is used to control a gas station fuel pump. Assume that you have received a functional specification, but no specification of non-functional characteristics like response time, reliability, or security. Which of the following statements is tare?
You should attempt to get information that will allow you to develop non-functional tests as well as functional tests
System testing never addresses non-functional characteristics, so this is not a problem
Non-functional characteristics are not important for embedded systems like this one
You can assume these non-functional characteristics were addressed in integration testing
A company is developing a new type of software application and wants very much to be first to market. The system test execution period is scheduled for twelve weeks.
Four weeks into system test execution, the marketing manager learns that their closest competitor is within six weeks of releasing a version of this type of application. He convinces the project management team to release the application as it currently exists, removing four features which are too buggy for delivery and documenting workarounds or limitations for the other known bugs. This decision violates the exit criteria defined in the system test plan.
The four withheld features, fixes for the remaining known bugs, plus any additional bug fixes or enhancements requested by early adopters, are to be delivered in a maintenance release due out thirteen weeks after initial release.
Which of the following statements about this situation is certainly true?
This release decision was ill advised, as the quality problems will definitely cost the company market share.
The test manager should resign in protest to protect her reputation from being associated with such a poor product.
There are no consequences associated with making decisions like this, as quality levels are really quite arbitrary.
The maintenance release will need significant regression testing if the company wants to ensure the features which are released now are not broken by that release
Consider the following events that can occur during test execution:
I. A test passes
II. A test reveals a bug
III. A test release is delivered late to testing
IV. A tester resigns
V. A confirmation test passes
Which of the following statements is true?
I, II, and III reduce quality risk
I, II, and V reduce quality risk
II, IV, and V reduce quality risk
II, Ill, and IV reduce quality risk
Which of the following statements captures the difference between project (planning) and product (quality) risks?
Project risks have a higher likelihood, while product risks have a higher impact
Product risks can be eliminated by use of good technology, while project risks always exist
Project risks affect all project stakeholders, while product risks affect only testers
Product risks affect the success of the product, while project risks affect the success of the project
Assume you are developing a product for mass-market sales. Suppose that a risk analysis identifies potential performance defects as a high-level risk. Which of the
following statements is true?
You should wait until system test execution to reduce the performance risks.
You should assume that your customers would deal with performance risks.
You should identify actions to take throughout the lifecycle to reduce the performance risks.
You should assume that the development manager would deal with performance risks.
A requirements specification contains the following excerpt:
The system messages shall score at or below the 8th grade reading level on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale.
Which of the following quality risk items can be derived from this requirements specification excerpt?
Messages returned too slow
Messages lost behind active window
Messages presented in the wrong language
Messages too difficult to understand
Assume that you are the test manager for a large banking applicationdevelopment project. Earlier in the project, you identified 640 product risks which were deemed significant enough to deserve some amount of testing.
During test execution, you attend a project management meeting where you are asked to report test status. The following is true of the identified risks:
# Significant product risks identified during project planning: 640
# Significant product risks identified during test execution: 84
# Test coverage of significant risks: 100%
# Risks for which all tests are run and passed: 637
# Risks for which one or more tests fail: 70
# Risks for which one or more tests remain to be run: 47
For some risks, one or more test has failed and one or more test remains to be run. After presenting these facts, you are asked for your opinion on the residual level of risk.
Which of the following is a reasonable response?
It is not possible to determine the residual level of risk until all tests have been run.
Most risks are addressed, but some risks remain related to known bugs and untested risk areas.
Since over 85% of risks have been tested without any bugs being found, over 85% of the risk has been removed.
Many new risks have been identified during test execution, and that should not happen.
Consider the following activities:
I. Group brainstorming
II. Bug taxonomy
III. Standard templates
IV. One-on-one interviews
V. Past bug analysis
VI. Risk checklist
Which of the following are techniques for gathering the collective judgment and insight of the stakeholders in risk identification and analysis?
I and IV
I and II
II and V
III and VI
During the system test phase, a tester is running a predefined test case against an e-commerce system. She finds that this test case causes the host browser to crash in five out of five attempts to repeat the problem. As this test case exercises a critical customer use case, she tries but cannot identify a workaround.
Which of the following is an additional step the tester should perform to properly classify this incident?
Ask the project manager what phase the project is in.
Try to isolate the incident and find a suspected cause.
Determine the repeatability of the failure.
Identify the symptom associated with this failure.
Consider the fourteen levels of increasing maturity in the Test Process Improvement model, from 0 to 13. Assume an organization is starting at the 0 level, and wants to advance to level 1. Which of the following is a key area of testing to improve to achieve this level?
Defect management
Metrics
Low-level testing
Test automation
A business analyst who is familiar with the use of the system under test is asked to participate in test execution.
Which of the essential testing skills i she most likely to bring to the test process
Foreign-language knowledge
Technical knowledge
Testing knowledge
Domain knowledge
You are managing the functional system testing effort for a simple e-commerce application that sells books, CDs, and DVDs on the Internet. You are not responsible for testing server-side or data centre behaviours, or any non-functional attributes like performance or usability, though management has encouraged you to report such problems if you see them. Based on your past experience with this organization and their development practices, you know that the requirements specification will be vague and high-level and that your opportunities for early test team involvement will be limited.
Which of the following should be true of your team?
You form a team of testers with heavy representation of specialized domain experts such as librarians, music store employees, and video store managers
You form a team of testers with heavy representation of specialized technology experts such as performance testers, programmers, and network engineers
You form a team of experienced testers with general Internet skills, good motivation, and knowledge of how such systems fail
You form a team of testers comprised mostly of low-skip test technicians with two or three test engineers writing detailed test scripts
You are working as a test manager on a project that is facing hard deadlines for delivery and strict budget limits. On previous projects, quality was seen as much more important than schedule or budget targets, so these constraints are a new experience for your test team. The number of berg reports they have filed which were subsequently deferred is demotivating some of your testers.
How might you best handle the situation?
Explain to your team the value of deferred bugs, and the plans for future releases that will fix them
Encourage your team to only report bugs they know will be fixed, to avoid slowing down the project
Remove the testers who are openly complaining, as they will ultimately de-motivate others
Ignore the situation, since tolerating a certain amount of grumbling is part of being a manager
Scenario:
A surgical operating theatre uses a pump that circulates blood around the body during heart operations when the heart itself is stopped for surgery. The pump is monitored and controlled by a computer system.
A software house, SCC specializes in safety critical systems and has created this system.
It uses the V-Model for software development (with 4 levels of testing � unit, component integration, system, acceptance testing). The nature of the failure is that when the surgeon switches the control over to the artificial pump, the pump occasionally fails to initiate correctly and subsequently may stop during surgery.
You are the test manager.
Which two of the following criteria would you recommend for entry into system testing?
100% product requirements coverage.
100% decision coverage.
Signed off system test strategy
Signed off technical specification.
Which two of the following would be the most appropriate test design techniques for use at system testing?
a. Statement testing.
b. Decision table testing.
c. Path testing.
d. State transition testing
b and d.
a and c.
c and d.
a and b.
Once the defect has been addressed, which of the following best describes the next steps?
Proceed immediately to user acceptance testing to prevent delays in this critical project.
Defer user acceptance testing until code changes have been unit tested.
Inspect the code before unit testing and then proceed to user acceptance testing.
Complete associated unit, system and regression testing before proceeding to acceptance testing.
Which of the following options would be the most significant considerations when designing the test environment?
a. Anticipated number of concurrent users.
b. Anticipated number of website hits.
c. Common browser/ platform variations.
d. The skill of the developers.
e. Test data readiness.
a, b and c.
b, c and d.
a, d and e.
b, c and e.
Which of the following methods is likely to provide the most accurate estimate for the overall test effort?
Using Test Point Analysis on the storyboard ideas.
Allocate 30% of the development time to testing.
Consult with the developers in order to reach consensus on time required.
heck with the deadline from release and work back from this.
Which one of the following represents the best approach to test design?
A detailed scripted approach using a variety of black box techniques to maximise functional coverage.
A detailed scripted approach using a variety of white box techniques to ensure there is no redundant code.
An Exploratory Testing approach using a variety of functional and non-functional techniques to maximise the value of the teams experience.
An Exploratory Testing approach using a variety of functional and non functional techniques as this will ensure the website is completed quickly.
Scenario:
A major retail operation has a purchasing system with a number of distributed purchasing centres. A central Management Information System (MIS) consolidates inventory levels and purchasing needs in order to generate management reports. The purchasing centre site servers upload their data regularly using batch processing. Management reports are prepared from the central MIS database daily.
The number of purchasing centre sites is expected to triple over the next 5 years. The existing system architecture is not coping with the existing load and a major upgrade is planned to increase its capacity to cope with the extra demand. In addition, functional enhancements will be made to the MIS. The upgrade is required as a matter of urgency.
A draft test strategy is in place for the upgrade project.
The project team is using the V model with 4 levels of testing: component, component integration, system and user acceptance testing. Each level has a level test plan.
Look at the following list of tools:
a. Defect management tool.
b. Modelling tool.
c. Configuration management tool.
d. Monitoring tool.
Which options would be the most effective combination for use at the system test level for this project?
a and c.
b and d.
b and c.
a and d.
Scenario:
A major retail operation has a purchasing system with a number of distributed purchasing centres. A central Management Information System (MIS) consolidates inventory levels and purchasing needs in order to generate management reports. The purchasing centre site servers upload their data regularly using batch processing. Management reports are prepared from the central MIS database daily.
The number of purchasing centre sites is expected to triple over the next 5 years. The existing system architecture is not coping with the existing load and a major upgrade is planned to increase its capacity to cope with the extra demand. In addition, functional enhancements will be made to the MIS. The upgrade is required as a matter of urgency.
A draft test strategy is in place for the upgrade project.
The project team is using the V model with 4 levels of testing: component, component integration, system and user acceptance testing. Each level has a level test plan.
Which of the following would be suitable entry criteria for the system testing of the upgrade project?
a. Sign-off of the program specification.
b. No outstanding severity 1 defects from integration testing.
c. Requirements coverage matrix completed.
d. System test design completed and environment ready.
a, b and d.
c, d and e.
a, b and e.
a, d and e.
A decision has been taken to add an extra level of testing Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT).
Which of the following best describes the effects of this change?
There will be no effects.
Unit testing can now be reduced due to the extra test level.
The overall strategy needs to be changed to take account of the extra test level.
More users will be required to participate in user acceptance testing.
As the time pressure increases towards the end of the project, the Project Manager wishes to negate some of the costs of OAT, by reducing the amount of testing carried out at the system test level.
Which of the following best describes the potential impact of this?
Reducing any test levels is always a bad thing and will have some impact on the project.
Reducing the system test level will reduce some of the project risk but at the expense of increased product risk.
Reducing the system test level is no problem in this instance because we have not found many problems so far.
Reducing the system test level is your responsibility as project manager and I do not want to be associated with that decision.
Scenario:
A large financial organisation is upgrading its trading system. The system is used by well over 2000 traders world-wide, who depend on timely and accurate presentation of information. The core functionality of the operating system is being changed, but other parts of the system will remain as before. Applications accessing the core functionality will also remain unchanged. The upgrade project is expected to last three months. Testing will include User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by staff experienced in using different parts of the system. Most systems have evolved over time and are largely undocumented.
Which one of the following options would be a valid testing policy statement for the organisation described in above Scenario?The upgrade project will not use test automation tools.
The upgrade project will not use test automation tools.
The planned upgrade will be tested using the same testing strategy as the most recent upgrade.
All outstanding defects must be addressed within the planned 3 month upgrade project.
The Fundamental Test Process must be followed for all projects.
Scenario:
A large financial organisation is upgrading its trading system. The system is used by well over 2000 traders world-wide, who depend on timely and accurate presentation of information. The core functionality of the operating system is being changed, but other parts of the system will remain as before. Applications accessing the core functionality will also remain unchanged. The upgrade project is expected to last three months. Testing will include User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by staff experienced in using different parts of the system. Most systems have evolved over time and are largely undocumented.
Which of the following would be recommended for the upgrade project?
a. Load and volume testing because of the large number of traders needing to access the system
b. Use of structure-based techniques because too little is known about the functionality of the applications.
c. Exploratory testing because of the lack of specifications, though there is some understanding of the functionality.
d. State transition testing because of the large number of applications to be tested.
a and c.
a and d.
c and d.
a and b.
Which of the following is a product risk?
Use of new team members with no experience in the new operating system.
Significant financial loss if the trading environment is negatively impacted by the upgrade.
Some applications may not function properly after the upgrade.
The upgrade project may not be completed on time.
For which of the following would the creation of a test plan be useful?
A. To teach employees how their applications should work.
B. To check whether the operating system is suitable for the intended use.
C. To facilitate process improvement for future upgrade projects.
D. To enable the business to understand their required contributions in making the upgrade a success.
To teach employees how their applications should work.
To check whether the operating system is suitable for the intended use.
To facilitate process improvement for future upgrade projects.
To enable the business to understand their required contributions in making the upgrade a success.
Some traders have been asked to become involved in test design and execution. They have sought clarification of what is meant by a test condition and a test case. Which of the following best describes the difference?
A test condition describes the feature to be tested, whilst a test case identifies the required inputs and expected outputs when testing the feature.
A test condition describes the system under test, whilst a test case describes the feature to be tested.
A test condition describes the feature to be tested, whilst a test case shows the order in which test steps will be taken.
A test condition describes the system under test, whilst a test case shows the order in which steps will be taken.
Scenario:
A company develops gaming applications. It creates games by buying off-the-shelf components, and adding its own functionality using its in-house software team.
A project has been created to upgrade an existing game, using a graphics engine supplied by an external vendor.
Which of the following would be carried out by the company?
a. Full functional testing of the new graphics engine.
b. Integration testing of the gaming application with the graphics engine.
c. Full functional testing of the game application.
d. Regression testing of the existing game functionality.
b and d
a and b.
c and d.
b and c.
Scenario:
You have been asked, as a tester with experience of testing user interfaces, to estimate the testing effort required for the user interface of an application with which you are unfamiliar. The user interface is based on an interface design that is being gradually adopted as a standard in the organisation. Records of the original design, development and testing activity are readily available. The estimate is required quickly.
Which of the following approaches to estimation would be most appropriate in this project?
Make an initial estimate based on your own experience, then check the numbers against the data for the original project.
Create a detailed work breakdown structure and make the micro estimates for each of the component activities, then check these with the original interface team.
Use Test Point Analysis or a similar formula-based method to construct an estimate.
Check with the designers of the new standard interface how much testing they are expecting to be done
Assume you are a test analyst working on a banking project to upgrade an existing automated teller machine system to allow customers to obtain cash advances from supported credit cards.
When the user first inserts a valid credit card type, the system considers the user to be in the unauthenticated state. Prior to requesting a cash advance, though, the user must enter the authenticated state. The user authenticates by entering the proper personal identification number (PIN).
The system should be able to support up to 1,000 authentication transactions in process at one time. It should be able to complete authentication of a user within two seconds.
Which of the following test tool types is most likely to be useful for this testing?
Static analysis tools
Performance test tools
Dynamic analysis tools
Web test tools
