ATM Online Practice Questions and Answers

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?

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A. Defined entry and exit criteria

B. Checklists to be used by the reviewers

C. Deliverables such as reports, evaluation sheets or other review summary sheets

D. Metrics for reporting on the review effectiveness, efficiency, and progress

Assume that you are the Test Manager for a small insurance application development project.

You have decided to adopt a risk-based testing strategy: 5 product risks (R1, R2, R3, R4, R5) have been identified and their levels of risk have been assessed. 10 test cases (T1, ..., T10) have been designed to cover all the product risks.

The following table shows the risk level and the test cases associated to the identified product risks (higher risk level means higher risk):

You are not confident with the assessment of the risk level and you suspect that it will be possible to find high-priority bugs in low-risk areas.

Furthermore the period for test execution is very short. Your goal is to test all the product risks in a risk-

based way, while assuring that each product risk gets at least some amount of testing.

Which of the following answers describes the best test execution schedule in this scenario?

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A. T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10

B. T1, T3, T5, T7, T9, T2, T4, T6, T8, T10

C. T10, T9, T8, T7, T6, T5, T4, T3, T2, T1

D. T10, T8, T6, T4, T2, T9, T7, T5, T3, T1

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 What is the MINIMUM number of test conditions that must be added to fulfill both the EXCR1 and EXCR2 exit criteria?

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A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

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? K2 1 credit

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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

C.

and IV. usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

D.

II. and IV. can negatively affect the estimation

E.

and III. usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

F.

III. and IV. can negatively affect the estimation

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and II. usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

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?

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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

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

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For each 10000 LOC (lines of code), 200 defects

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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?

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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

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

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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 an iteration

Which of the following correctly matches each test strategy with an appropriate example? K2 1 credit

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

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 audit ability.

Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe how to organize the test plan?

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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

The main objectives the senior management team wants to achieve are:

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to reduce the costs associated with dynamic testing

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to use reviews to ensure that the project is on course for success and following the plan

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to use reviews as a well-documented and effective bug-removal activity following a formal process with well-defined roles

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to determine the effectiveness of reviews in terms of phase containment

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to improve phase containment effectiveness Which of the following answers would you expect to describe the best way to achieve these objectives? K4 3 credits

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You should plan for lightweight exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis aimed at identifying the larger cluster of defects

B.

You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis aimed at identifying the larger cluster of defects

C.

You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development phase and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis of the bugs found during testing to determine the people responsible for those bugs

D.

You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis of the bugs found during testing to determine the phase in which they have been introduced

Consider the following list of statements about audits and management reviews:

I. Audits are usually more effective than management reviews at finding defects

II. Audits and management reviews have the same main goals, the only difference is related to the roles and level of formality

III. A typical outcome of an audit includes observations and recommendations, corrective actions and a pass/fail assessment

IV. An audit is not the appropriate mechanism to use at the code review in order to detect defects prior to dynamic testing

Which of the following statements is true?

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A. I. and III. are true; II. and IV. are false;

B. II. and III are true; I. and IV. are false;

C. III. and IV. are true; I and II are false;

D. I, III and IV are true; II. is false;

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?

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A. New, Working, Verification, Working, Clarification, Working, Verification, Closed

B. New, Working, Clarification, Working, Verification, Closed

C. New, Working, Verification, Working, Clarification, Working, Closed

D. New, Working, Verification, Closed

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? K2 1 credit

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 motivating factor for testers? K2 1 credit

A. The resources allocated for the testing activities are not sufficient and don't allow the testers to contribute to the quality of the product

B. The testers contribution to the quality of the software products developed from an organization is recognized with increased responsibilities

C. The same regressions tests are executed manually by the same testers, for every product release, without any progression in content

D. The testers are asked to perform, in parallel with their testing tasks, other tasks unrelated to their testing responsibilities

An agile development team decides to hire a tester who has always workeD.

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in independent test teams, reporting the problems found in a defect tracking system

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in safety-critical projects, with a stronger focus on the quality of the product than on time and budget. This agile team is focused on short-term goals to get the product released on time and within budget.

Which of the following answers would you expect to be most likely true in this scenario?

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A. Agile teams like the presence of a tester in their teams and the tester will be able to adapt to the new context without any issue

B. The developers will immediately follow the guidelines described by the tester

C. The tester can continue to report the problems found in a defect tracking system and be more focused on the quality than on time and budget constraints

D. The tester's mission could be to verify adherence to requirements, instead of reporting formally the problems in a defect tracking system

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?

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A. Mary

B. Bob

C. Mark

D. Dave