ATM Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following statements describing the consequences of specifying test conditions at a detailed level is NOT true?

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A. In an environment where the test basis is continuously changing, it is recommended to specify test conditions at a detailed level in order to achieve a better maintainability

B. The specification of test conditions at a detailed level can be effective when no formal requirements or other development work products are available

C. The specification of test conditions at a detailed level can require the implementation of an adequate level of formality across the team

D. For system testing, the specification of test conditions at a detailed level, carried out early in the project as soon as the test basis is established, can contribute to defect prevention

You can count on well-written requirements, but you can't count on an adequate contribution of the stakeholders to the quality risk analysis. You have to mitigate the insufficient contribution of the stakeholders because the risk-based testing approach shall minimize the product risks. Your test team has one expert tester in security testing.

Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important in this context?

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A. Extract from the defect tracking system of the previous project all the security defects and failures, and classify them to support design and execution of specific tests

B. Automate all functional and non-functional system tests

C. Apply systematic and exploratory testing for integration and system test

D. Perform exploratory testing sessions with adequate charters covering security aspects

In the next two months some new features will be constantly added to new releases of a project you are working on as Test Manager.

You have identified as one of the main project risks, that the requirements specification will still be incomplete when your team starts the test design and implementation phase.

Some requirements will most likely be completed too late to allow a proper test preparation.

You and your test team have already worked on several similar past projects in the same organization.

Which one of the following options would you expect to be the most effective at mitigating this risk?

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A. Don't prepare any test and just run the regression test suite to check that the new features don't introduce regression

B. Make reasonable assumptions about the missing details and design lightweight tests that can be easily updated during test execution

C. Don't design any test until the test execution starts, then communicate that test execution is blocked due to incomplete requirements

D. Even if there are only few details missing, escalate the risk to the project manager without preparing any tests

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

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

In the test strategy document your organization declares:

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To adopt a V-model development lifecycle, with three formal levels of testinG. unit, integration and system testing

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To use a blended risk-based and regression-averse testing strategy for each level of testing The following is an excerpt of the "approach" section for the system test plan document of a new project:

"Testing will only use manual tests. Due to the short period of time for test execution, the following activities will be performed in parallel with test execution: Test planning, test analysis and test design.

Basic metrics will be taken for test effort (i.e. person-hours), test cases executed (passed/failed), and incidents (no more metrics, such as code coverage, will be collected)."

In the system test plan, no deviations from the test strategy are described.

Based only on the given information, which of the following statements is true?

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A. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the test strategy

B. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the risk- based testing strategy, but it is inconsistent with the regression testing strategy

C. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the regression testing strategy, but it is inconsistent with the risk-based testing strategy

D. The approach described the system test plan document is inconsistent with both the risk-based and regression testing strategies

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 the following statements describing the importance of improving the test process:

I. Test process improvement is important because being focused only on the test process it can provide recommendations to improve the test process itself, but it can't indicate or suggest improvement to areas of the development process

II. Test process improvement is important because it is much more effective than software process improvement to improve the quality of a software system

III. Test process improvement is important because several process improvement models (STEP, TPI Next, TMMi) have been developed over the years

IV. Test process improvement is important because every organization, regardless of the context, should always achieve the maximum level of maturity of testing described in the test improvement models such as TMMi

Which of the following answers is correct?

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

B. I., II., III. and IV are false

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

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

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

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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

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).

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?

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A. Send Robert to a performance testing training course

B. Send Alex to a performance testing training course

C. Send John to a performance testing training course

D. Send Mark to a test automation training course