TM12 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Assume you are the Test Manager for a new software release of an e-commerce application.

The server farm consists of six servers providing different capabilities. Each capability is provided through

a set of web services.

The requirements specification document contains several SLAs (Service Level Agreements) like the

following:

SLA-001: 99.5 percent of all transactions shall have a response time less than five seconds under a load of

up-to 5000 concurrent users

The main objective is to assure that all the SLAs specified in the requirements specification document will

be met before system release. You decide to apply a risk-based testing strategy and an early risk analysis

confirms that performance is high risk. You can count on a well-written requirements specification and on a

model of the system behavior under various load levels produced by the system architect.

Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important ones to achieve the test

objectives in this scenario?

A. Perform unit performance testing for each single web service.

B. Monitor the SLAs after the system has been released into the production environment.

C. Perform system performance testing, consisting of several performance testing sessions, to verify if all the SLAs have been met.

D. Perform static performance testing by reviewing the architectural model of the system under various load levels.

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). REGLOGO-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?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

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?

A. The requirements review

B. The defect management process

C. The quality risk analysis process

D. The system design and architecture design reviews

Consider an agile team adopting Extreme Programming (XP) with five developers and one tester without any coding experience.

To which of the following activities would you expect the tester will contribute most?

A. Developing unit tests

B. Executing unit tests

C. Planning and executing tests during the integration test phase to detect interface defects

D. Supporting the customer in the execution of acceptance testing

Which of the following statements about management of product quality risks in mature organizations with respect to the lifecycle, is true?

A. Mature organizations address product quality risks associated to non-functional characteristics only during the system test phase.

B. Mature organizations are aware that the contribution of testing to analysis of product quality risks is very important. The analysis should occur throughout the entire life cycle.

C. Mature organizations don't waste time identifying the sources of risks. They only focus on identifying product quality risks.

D. Mature organizations are aware that risk management of product quality risks only occurs during testing.

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?

A. 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 I and IV usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

C. II and IV can negatively affect the estimation I and III usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

D. III and IV can negatively affect the estimation I and II usually favor the accuracy of the estimation effort

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?

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;

You are the Test Manager of a project that adopts a V-model with four formal levels of testing: unit, integration, system and acceptance testing.

On this project reviews have been conducted for each development phase prior to testing, which is to say that reviews of requirements, functional specification, high-level design, low-level design and code have been performed prior to testing.

Assume that no requirements defects have been reported after the release of the product.

Which TWO of the following metrics do you need in order to evaluate the requirements reviews in terms of phase containment effectiveness? (Choose two.)

A. Number of defects found during the requirements review.

B. Total number of defects attributable to requirements found during unit, integration, system and acceptance testing.

C. Total number of defects found during functional specification review, high-level design review, low-level design review, code review, unit testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing.

D. Time to conduct the requirements review.

E. Total number of defects attributable to requirements, found during functional specification review, high-level design review, low-level design review, code review, unit testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing.

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?

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.

Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a demotivating factor for testers? (Choose two.)

A. The management asks the testers to be kept informed about the intensity, quality and results of testing.

B. The testers' recommendations to improve the system or its testability are adopted by the development team.

C. The same regressions tests are manually executed by the same testers, for every product release, without regression test tools.

D. The testers are assessed on whether and how often they detect important and critical failures.

E. Test quality is measured by counting the number of customer/user reported problems.