Which of the following is NOT an example of a typical pre-condition for test execution?
- A . A properly configured test environment
- B . Thoroughly specified test procedures
- C . A process for managing identified defects
- D . Defined level of requirements coverage achieved
Defects are discovered through test analysis and design because…
- A . the testers’ mindset is focused on finding defects
- B . developers are involved in writing test cases
- C . the cost of fixing a defect will increase if found later on
- D . the author of the test basis will have made errors
Scenario "Incident management"
A test team is keeping logs of the incidents that they observe. They use a commonly-available word processor to write the incident reports in individual files, which are held in shared storage.
They track the incidents, along with some incident details, in a spreadsheet.
You have now also been given the task to identify the key fields for logging the incident reports, So far the following fields have been in use in the Excel sheet:
– Incident description
– Date
– Author
– Version of the software under test
Which of the following would you recommend as the most important field to add?
- A . Priority
- B . Incident identification
- C . Developer assigned to the fix
- D . Date to be fixed
Scenario "Incident management"
A test team is keeping logs of the incidents that they observe. They use a commonly-available word processor to write the incident reports in individual files, which are held in shared storage.
They track the incidents, along with some incident details, in a spreadsheet,
You are starting to review some of the incident reports that have been submitted as a result of test execution.
Which THREE major comments would you make having reviewed the following incident report?
- A . Should have been two defect reports
- B . Ambiguous description
- C . Both severity and priority do not make sense
- D . Actual cause is missing
- E . Reproducibility is not indicated
- F . Defect type is missing
- G . Date to be fixed not defined
Scenario "Incident management"
A test team is keeping logs of the incidents that they observe. They use a commonly-available word processor to write the incident reports in individual files, which are held in shared storage.
They track the incidents, along with some incident details, in a spreadsheet.
Identify THREE main advantages of this approach to incident management.
- A . Quick to set up and cheap
- B . Electronic rather than manual
- C . Allows co-operation of various locations
- D . Can be easily integrated with other tools, such as configuration management tools and test execution tools
- E . Large files are not a problem
- F . High level of usability
- G . Easy to document screen shots and have attachments to the spreadsheet
Consider the following decision table,
How many cases are left when this decision table is collapsed?
- A . 2
- B . 3
- C . 4
- D . 5
It has been suggested to organise a performance test to investigate the third type of complaint.
Which of the following could be used to quantify the situation?
- A . Time needed for defect analysis
- B . Number of errors made by the user
- C . Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
- D . Time required by the user to perform the function
For the on-line portal a test will be planned that will focus on suitability.
Which technique is most appropriate to use for the suitability test?
- A . Use Cases
- B . Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis
- C . State Transition Testing
- D . Pairwise Testing
Scenario "Tax system"
The tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than e20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be re-calculated. If the person also has more than two and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
- A . The SUMI scores are above market average
- B . The SUMl scores show a positive result regarding user-satisfaction
- C . The standard deviation of all SuMl scales is much too large
- D . Especially the SUMl score regarding Affect is high which will ease the deployment process
Which of the following is a typical defect that boundary value analysis would identify?
- A . Improper handling of sequences of events
- B . Improper handling of combinations of conditions
- C . Improper handling of large and small values
- D . Improve handling of classes of inputs
The use of exploratory testing is also being considered.
Which of the following practices is NOT part of exploratory testing?
- A . Writing test charters
- B . Holding debriefing meetings
- C . Writing detailed test procedures
- D . Working in pairs
Which of the following fits the principles of experience-based testing?
- A . Coverage calculations can be used to determine the amount of testing required
- B . Different people will have a different experience level regarding usability testing
- C . Models can be used to derive the required test cases
- D . Experience in test execution is more important than experience in test design
When preparing for an exploratory test, which of the following sets of artifacts would be the most appropriate to produce?
- A . Charter outlining tasks (tests) to be performed and objectives to be met, plus a set of heuristics to follow
- B . Charter outlining tasks (tests) to be performed and objectives to be met, plus a set of heuristics to follow and the completed session sheets
- C . Charter outlining tasks (tests) to be performed and objectives to be met, plus a set of defect types to be targeted and a list of new issues encountered
- D . Charter outlining objectives to be met, plus a set of heuristics to follow
To enhance the test design phase the purchase of a test design tool is being considered.
Which statement characterizes best a test design tool?
- A . It validates models of the software
- B . It enables tests to be executed automatically
- C . It enables individual tests to be traced to requirements
- D . It generates test inputs or executable tests from requirements
Which of the following is an important principle for using experienced-based test techniques?
- A . Tester skill is a critical factor in assigning test execution tasks
- B . Tester skills are less important than ensuring 100% test utilization
- C . Testers should always focus on defect-prevention activities
- D . Testers should be evaluated based on the number of defects they find
It is possible that the test execution phase will be shortened and that test cases will need to be prioritised.
What is the main reason to prioritise the test cases?
- A . Get the areas the programmer is most worried about finished first
- B . Get finished within the time and budget available
- C . Ensure that when you stop you have done the best tests in the time available
- D . To ensure as many tests as possible are run
Scenario "Tax system"
The tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than é20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be re-calculated. If the person also has more than two and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.
The functionality of the newly released tax system is now at the right level. However, there are frequent complaints about non-functional issues.
In particular:
i. the new system does not run on PC’s with VISTA installed
ii. it is difficult to update the system quickly when new legislation must be implemented
iii. especially when many users are using the web site, the system seems to be slow
iv. some users enthusiastically use the system but are not able to complete some of the transactions.
Which TWO types of risks are related to complaint (i) and (ii)?
- A . Functionality
- B . Usability
- C . Efficiency
- D . Portability
- E . Maintainability
Scenario "Tax system"
The tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation, For a person with a salary of less than f20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be re-calculated. If the person also has more than two and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.
How many input classes can be distinguished when applying equivalence partitioning to the Tax System specification?
- A . 5
- B . 6
- C . 7
- D . 8
Scenario "Tax system"
The tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than ∈ 20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be re-calculated. If the person also has more than two and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.
How many output classes can be distinguished when applying equivalence partitioning to the Tax System specification?
- A . 2
- B . 3
- C . 4
- D . 5
Using the scenario as described above, using boundary value analysis, which would be the most interesting test set to explicitly test one single boundary value as defined in the specification?
- A . (i)
- B . (ii)
- C . (iii)
- D . (iv)