CTAL-TM Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following product risks would be most effectively addressed just by static testing?

A. In the delivered application, one of the countries, as specified in the requirements, has not been correctly implemented.

B. The application takes too long to process a request for additional cover.

C. The test cases do not cover the key requirements.

D. The successful bidder may not deliver all the required functionality on time.

Comparing TMMi and TPI, which is not a valid reason for choosing either TPI or TMMi?

A. If the scope of test performance improvement covers all test levels, TMMi is preferred since TPI focusses mainly on black-box testing.

B. If the organization is already applying CMMI, TMMi may be preferred since it has the same structure and uses the same terminology. TMMi addresses management commitment very strongly and is therefore more suitable to support a top-down improvement process.

C. TPI is much more a bottom-up model that is suitable for addressing test topics for a specific (test) project.

D. TMMi can only be used with the traditional V model,whereas TPI can be used with all types of software life cycles.

The test improvement project will take place in an organization developing a safety- critical avionics application.

Which one of the following standards do you believe would be most appropriate to take into account for compliance during your assignment?

A. ISO 9126

B. IEEE 829

C. BS 7925/2

D. DO-178B

In general, why is it NOT a good idea to estimate the testing effort based only on a percentage of development effort? Identify THREE valid reasons.

A. The quality of the development estimate may be poor.

B. In general bottom-up estimation is always better than top-down estimation.

C. The percentage based technique only applies to the V life cycle model.

D. Using the same percentage every time does not address the level of risk of the application to be tested.

E. The maturity of the organization, e.g. the quality of the test basis, quality of development testing, configuration management, availability of test tools, also influence the effort needed for testing.

F. It builds on large set of historical data

G. The result is almost always a too low estimate for the required test effort

Identify THREE items that would be part of the work-breakdown structure showing the key testing activities for the acceptance test project.

A. Test planning, test case preparation and test execution for each of the four iterations

B. Work should be explicitly allocated to test completion, test management, installation and to training on using the system

C. Activities to deploy the system in the user environment

D. Regression testing in the second, third and fourth iterations

E. Development activities for unit and integration testing

F. Reviews on requirements documentation

G. Defining test environment requirements for system testing

Instead of having an independent test team within the company, the company is considering to outsource testing.

What are THREE key challenges that are typical for outsourcing?

A. Test environment more complex

B. Define expectation for tasks and deliverables

C. Clear channels of communications

D. Possibly different cultures

E. Testing of non-functional requirements

F. Audit trail from requirements to test cases

G. Applying test automation

You are considering involving users during test execution. In general, what is the main reason for involving users during test execution?

A. They are a cheap resource

B. They have good testing skills

C. This can serve as a way to build their confidence in the system

D. They have the ability to also focus on invalid test cases

What would be a test approach regarding the test design techniques to be applied that would fit an item with the highest risk?

A. Component testing: decision testing; System testing: exploratory testing

B. Component testing: decision testing; System testing: decision table testing

C. Component testing: statement testing; System testing: equivalence partitioning

D. Component testing: statement testing; System testing: decision table partitioning

Risks should be constantly reviewed. Given the current situation, which one of the following factors is most likely to lead to a revised view of product risk?

A. The concerns over the user interface may lead to changes to the interface which cannot be implemented by development in time for the second test iteration.

B. The concerns over the user interface raises the likelihood of a risk in that area and increases the amount of test effort needed for the user interface, thereby limiting the test effort available for other parts of the test management tool.

C. The delivery of the application without the interface changes may upset the user community.

D. The method used for test estimation is not accurate enough and hence the money spent on testing exceeded its budget.

Consider the typical objectives of testing. Which of the following metrics can be used to measure the effectiveness of the testing process in achieving one of those objectives?

A. Average number of days between defect discovery and resolution

B. Percentage of requirements covered

C. Lines of code written per developer per day

D. Percentage of test effort spent on regression testing