TM12 Practice Questions

Question 1

Which of the following statements best describes an appropriate approach for managing exploratory testing? Number of correct responses: 1

Accepted Answer

Break the testing work in 30 to 120 minutes sessions and use properly defined mission statements consisting of two or three sentences to guide testing during these sessions

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Define very detailed mission statements, which allow testing work to be broken into sessions of up to 10 minutes duration in which testing is guided by these mission statements

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Define very generic charters to drive exploratory testing sessions of 2 days where testers are completely free to decide what to test

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Exploratory testing should not be managed because such testing is inherently unmanageable and not measurable

Question 2

You are using this skills assessment spreadsheet in order to define a training development plan for your test team.

Your objective is to fill the skill gaps by having at least a team member rated as an expert for each skill identified for the ''technical expertise'' and ''testing skills'' sections, and with the ability to train the other team members.

Considering the budget constraints you can send only one person to a training course.

Based only on the given information, which of the following answers would you expect to be the best option to achieve your objective?

Number of correct responses: 1

Answer Options

ASend Robert to a performance testing training course

BSend Alex to a performance testing training course

CSend John to a performance testing training course

DSend Mark to a test automation training course

Correct Answer: B

Accepted Answer

Send Alex to a performance testing training course

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Send Robert to a performance testing training course

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Send John to a performance testing training course

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Send Mark to a test automation training course

Question 3

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?

Number of correct responses: 1

Accepted Answer

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

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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

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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

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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

Question 4

Assume you are managing the system testing execution phase of a project.

The system test execution period for that project is scheduled for eighteen weeks and the release date is scheduled at the end of system testing.

During the sixth week of system test execution, at the staff meeting, the project manager informs you that the project deadlines are changed and the release date that is only three weeks ahead.

This new release will not allow the completion of the system tests. Suppose also that you have followed a risk-driven test approach for this project.

Which of the following statements represents the worst way to lead your test team in the next three weeks?

Number of correct responses: 1

Accepted Answer

Neglect your management activities and work side-by-side with your test team executing tests

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Considering the executed tests, you should reduce the test coverage back on the risk analysis and adjust downward the priority of the associated risk items

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Convince all the people of your test team that each of them is an important and needed member, and that their contribution is fundamental to the success of the team

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Favor and encourage a proactive attitude where people ask for new tasks as soon as they finish their current tasks

Question 5

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?

Number of correct responses: 1

Accepted Answer

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

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

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

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

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