After the presentation, you are asked to explain the chart.
Assume you have applied a full risk-based testing strategy.

Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the pie chart?

A chart showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution during system testing
is also available. The chart shows that the daily closure period is consistently and significantly
above the rolling closure period for a long period of the system testing phase.
Almost all defects found during system testing have been related to the system as a whole, not
related to single units or integrations issues. Almost all quality risks have been addressed during
the unit and integration testing phase and no residual quality risks were present in the integrated
system. This has been confirmed by exploratory testing sessions performed during system testing,
targeted at finding defects in these quality risk areas.
Based on the given information only, which one of the following areas would you expect to be
considered more in the retrospective meeting in order to be improved?

In your organization the following tools of the same vendor are currently in usE. a requirements
management tool, a test management tool and a bug tracking tool.
You are the Test Manager.
You are currently evaluating a test automation tool of the same vendor (to complete the vendor’s
tool suite) against an interesting open-source test automation tool under the GNU GPL (General
Public License).
There are no initial costs associated to that open-source tool.
Which of the following statements associated to the selection of the open-source tool is correct in
this scenario?

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?

Assume you are the Test Manager in charge of independent testing for avionics applications.
You are in charge of testing for a project to implement three different CSCI (Computer Software
Configuration Item):

– a BOOT-X CSCI that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard
– a DIAG-X CSCI that must be certified at level C of the DO-178B standard
– a DRIV-X CSCI that must be certified at level A of the DO-178B standard
These are three different software modules written in C language to run on a specific hardware
platform.
You have been asked to select a single code coverage tool to perform the mandatory code
coverage measurements, in order to meet the structural coverage criteria prescribed by the DO-178B standard. This tool must be qualified as a verification tool under DO-178B.
Since there are significant budget constraints to purchase this tool, you are evaluating an opensource tool that is able to provide different types of code coverage. This tool meets perfectly your
technical needs in terms of the programming language and the specific hardware platform (it
supports also the specific C-compiler).
The source code of the tool is available.
Your team could easily customize the tool to meet the project needs. This tool is not qualified as a
verification tool under the DO-178B.
Which of the following are the three main concerns related to that open-source tool selection?

After a selection process you have selected a test management tool that is going be introduced in

your organization and used by your test team in a pilot project.
You have already identified the member of your test team who will be the administrator of the tool,
since he/she has a significant experience with the administration of test management tools and so
he/she is able to make effective and efficient up-front decisions about “how” the tool will be used.
You have also developed a training plan for the other members of your test team.
In collaboration with the administrator of the tool you have also devised standard ways of
managing, storing and maintaining the tool and its assets including backup/restore procedures.
You have also analyzed standard formats supported by the tool (CSV, XLS, XML, etc.) to export,
import and archive all the information managed by the tool itself (requirements, test case
specifications, test plans etc.) for compliance with the most important test management tools, in
order to minimize the impacts of migrating this information to a new tool that could replace the
existing one in the future.
Which of the following phases in the lifecycle of the new tool has NOT been adequately
considered in this description?

Assume you are a Test Manager involved in system testing of a CRM application for a Pay-TV
company. Currently the application is able to support a proper number of users assuring the
required responsiveness. Since the business is expected to grow, you have been asked to
evaluate the ability of the application to grow to support more users while maintaining the same
responsiveness.
Which of the following tools would you expect to be the most useful at performing this evaluation?

Consider the following skills assessment spreadsheet for your test team (consisting of four team
members):
This spreadsheet has three sections: technical expertise, testing skills and professionalism.
The skill levels for each skill area for both the “technical expertise” and “testing skills” sections
have been rated on a four-point scale:
– E (Expert): indicates that a person has expert knowledge and experience in the skill area
– B (Beginner): indicates that a person has some knowledge and experience in the skill area but
he/she is not autonomous
– W (Wants to learn): indicates that a person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area but
he/she wants to learn that skill
– NI (Not Interested): indicates that a person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area and
he/she is not interested to learn that skill
The skill levels for each skill area of the “professionalism” section have been rated on a three point
scale (H=High, M=Medium, L=Low).
Consider the following analysis of testing skills performed on four peoplE. Alex, Robert, John and
Mark (all the skills have been rated on an ascending scalE. The higher the score, the better the skill):

Which of these people, based on this analysis, would you expect to be most suitable to work
specifically as test designer?

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?

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?