TM12 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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?

A. Since R3 is the only risk for which all test cases have passed, the risk has been reduced by 20%.

B. The test execution status table indicates that the risk has been reduced by 56%.

C. The residual risk level can't be determined, because it requires that all the test cases have been executed.

D. The test execution table doesn't give an indication of the risk level of the open defects and the test cases that failed or are not run yet.

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?

A. Test reporting activities can't be influenced by the use of an iterative lifecycle model with short iterations.

B. Test reporting activities are not important for projects adopting an iterative lifecycle model with short iterations.

C. Test reporting activities are less important for projects adopting an iterative life cycle model with short iterations. They should be performed at the end of the last iteration.

D. Test reporting activities are still important with an iterative lifecycle. The reports can be used to conduct post-iteration review sessions before starting with the next iteration.

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?

A. Developing unit tests

B. Executing unit tests

C. Planning and executing tests during the integration test phase to detect interface defects

D. Supporting the customer in the execution of acceptance testing

Which of the following statements represents the most effective contribution of the stakeholders to the completion of the failure mode analysis table?

A. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the detection. The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the priority.

B. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the priority. The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the detection.

C. The system architect and the chief software engineer should contribute to assess the priority. The expert tester is the only one who should contribute to assess the detection.

D. The aircraft pilot is the only one qualified to contribute to assess the priority and thus should be assigned this task. The customer representative should contribute to assess the detection.

You are working on a project to develop an authentication system for an e-commerce website. This system provides two features: Registration and authentication. Two different development teams develop these two features.

There is a high likelihood that the delivery of the authentication feature to the test team will be three weeks later. To complete the registration the user must provide the following registration inputs: Name, surname, birthdate, fiscal code and he/she can select a username and a password.

A registered user can be a special user or a normal user. To be identified as a special user, he/she must also provide, during the registration process, a voucher possibly received from the IT department.

Access is granted only if a user is registered and the password is correct: In all other cases access is denied. If the registered user is a special user and the password is wrong, a special warning is shown on the system console.

You are currently performing a quality risk analysis using FMEA.

Based only on the given information, which of the following is NOT a product risk that could be identified during the quality risk analysis?

A. The late delivery of the authentication feature to the test team causes delays in the start of test execution and this could result in a shorter test period.

B. The authentication system denies access for a special user with a wrong password, but doesn't display a special warning on the system console.

C. The authentication system grants access to a normal user with a wrong password.

D. The authentication system grants access to a special user with a wrong password.

Which of the following statements about management of product quality risks in mature organizations with respect to the lifecycle, is true?

A. Mature organizations address product quality risks associated to non-functional characteristics only during the system test phase.

B. Mature organizations are aware that the contribution of testing to analysis of product quality risks is very important. The analysis should occur throughout the entire life cycle.

C. Mature organizations don't waste time identifying the sources of risks. They only focus on identifying product quality risks.

D. Mature organizations are aware that risk management of product quality risks only occurs during testing.

Consider the following test strategies:

I. Consultative test strategy

II. Reactive test strategy

III. Analytical test strategy

IV. Process-compliant test strategy

Consider also the following examples of test activities:

1.

Prioritize the test cases, based on the results of a FMEA analysis, to ensure early coverage of the most important areas and discovery of the most important defects during test execution

2.

Execute usability testing driven by the guidance of a sample of users (external to the test team)

3.

Perform exploratory testing sessions throughout the system test phase

4.

On an Agile project, execute tests that cover the test conditions identified for each user story of a feature planned for iteration

Which of the following correctly matches each test strategy with an appropriate example?

A. I-2; II-3; III-4; IV-1

B. I-3; II-2; III-1; IV-4

C. I-1; II-2; III-3; IV-4

D. I-2; II-3; III-1; IV-4

Based on the historical data of 5 past and similar projects, you have calculated these average numbers of defects detected in system testing:

for each 10000 LOC (lines of code), 200 defects for each person-month of development team effort, 49 defects

You want to use this information to perform estimation for a new project.

The project manager tells you that he/she has estimated 20000 new LOC for this new project.

Four developers work for four months on this project before system testing.

During system testing, 797 defects are discovered.

Assume that the system test of this new project is using the same amount of work as spent in the past projects.

Based on this information only, which of the following statement is certainly true about this project?

A. The code for the new project contains a higher defect density than the code of the past projects.

B. The number of defects found during the system test phase on the new project is approximately proportional to the development team effort.

C. 40000 LOC have been delivered to system testing (against the 20000 LOC planned by the project manager).

D. More LOC than planned have been delivered to system testing with a higher defect density than the past projects.

You are estimating the effort for the integration testing activities of a new project. Consider the following factors, which can affect that estimation:

I. Availability of re-usable test systems and documentation from previous, similar projects

II. Unexpected timing of components arrival

III. Stability of the integration test team (no turnover)

IV. Many and geographically distributed sub-teams

Which of the following statements is true?

A. I and II can negatively affect the estimation III and IV usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

B. II and III can negatively affect the estimation I and IV usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

C. II and IV can negatively affect the estimation I and III usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

D. III and IV can negatively affect the estimation I and II usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

Which one of the following metrics to be produced needs traceability between the test cases and each item in a proper test basis?

A. Requirements coverage

B. Trends in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution

C. Mean time between failures for the system

D. Cumulative number of reported defects versus cumulative number of resolved defects

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?

A. 300 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of internal failure.

B. 340 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of external failure.

C. 340 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of internal failure.

D. 300 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of detection.

You are a Test Manager working for a software organization where reviews have never been applied. After a meeting with your managers examining a business case for reviews, (including their costs, benefits, and potential issues), the management finally decides to adopt formal reviews for future projects.

You have been given a budget that you have spent to provide training in the review process and to introduce the review process on a pilot project.

On that pilot project the introduction of reviews has been very positive in terms of positive involvement from all the participants. All the reviews applied to different documents have been very effective for their purposes (especially at revealing defects).

Which of the following answers describes an important success factor for the introduction of formal reviews which is missing in this scenario?

A. Management support

B. Participant support

C. Definition and use of metrics to measure the ROI (Return On Investment)

D. Training in the review process

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

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?

A. Proper testing for the custom automation framework must be performed.

B. The custom automation framework will require an adequate documentation.

C. The changes to the custom automation framework should be communicated to all external users of this tool under the GNU license.

D. The custom automation framework will need proper maintenance.

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

A. The management asks the testers to be kept informed about the intensity, quality and results of testing.

B. The testers' recommendations to improve the system or its testability are adopted by the development team.

C. The same regressions tests are manually executed by the same testers, for every product release, without regression test tools.

D. The testers are assessed on whether and how often they detect important and critical failures.

E. Test quality is measured by counting the number of customer/user reported problems.