TM12 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Consider an information system of a Pay-Tv company based on a SOA architecture. The integrated system currently consists of three core systems:

a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system a BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system a CAS (Conditional Access System) system

All of them communicating with SOA Middleware.

You have been asked to manage the testing activities for the integration of two additional off-the-shelf systems from two different vendors: a SMS (Short Message Service) server and an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system.

Assume that there is a high likelihood that the two off-the-shelf systems will be low-quality and that you have a clear proof that the testing performed by the two vendors on their systems has been unsystematic and unprofessional. This obviously leads to higher quality risk for the overall integrated system.

You are the Test Manager of this project. Your main goal is to plan for testing activities to mitigate this risk.

Which of the following answers best describes the test activities (assuming it is possible to perform all of them) you should plan for?

A. You should plan for an informal and minimal acceptance test of the two off-the-shelf systems and then a single end-to-end test of the overall integrated system.

B. You should directly plan for a single end-to-end test focused on end-to-end tests of the overall integrated system without an acceptance test of the two off-the-shelf systems.

C. You should plan for two levels: a system integration test and an end-to-end test of the overall integrated system.

D. You should plan for adequate re-testing of both the systems followed by a system integration test and an end-to-end test of the overall integrated system.

You are not confident with the assessment of the risk level and you suspect that it will be possible to find high-priority bugs in low-risk areas.

Furthermore, the period for test execution is very short. Your goal is to test all the product risks in a risk-based way, while assuring that each product risk gets at least some amount of testing.

Which of the following answers describes the best test execution schedule in this scenario?

A. T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10

B. T1, T3, T5, T7, T9, T2, T4, T6, T8, T10

C. T10, T9, T8, T7, T6, T5, T4, T3, T2, T1

D. T10, T8, T6, T4, T2, T9, T7, T5, T3, T1

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

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.

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?

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.

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?

A. Coverage tools

B. Test management tools

C. Static analysis tools

D. Performance tools

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?

A. Alex

B. Roberta

C. John

D. Mark

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?

A. Mary

B. Bob

C. Mark

D. Dave

An agile development team decides to hire a tester who has always worked:

in independent test teams, reporting the problems found in a defect tracking system

in safety-critical projects, with a stronger focus on the quality of the product than on time and budget.

This agile team is focused on short-term goals to get the product released on time and within budget.

Which of the following answers would you expect to be most likely true in this scenario?

A. Agile teams like the presence of a tester in their teams and the tester will be able to adapt to the new context without any issue.

B. The developers will immediately follow the guidelines described by the tester.

C. The tester can continue to report the problems found in a defect tracking system and be more focused on the quality than on time and budget constraints.

D. The tester's mission could be to verify adherence to requirements, instead of reporting formally the problems in a defect tracking system.

Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a motivating factor for testers?

A. The resources allocated for the testing activities are not sufficient and don't allow the testers to contribute to the quality of the product.

B. The testers contribution to the quality of the software products developed from an organization is recognized with increased responsibilities.

C. The same regressions tests are executed manually by the same testers, for every product release, without any progression in content.

D. The testers are asked to perform, in parallel with their testing tasks, other tasks unrelated to their testing responsibilities.