Test Management
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 auditability.
Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe how to organize the test plan?

• 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

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Assume that no additional product risks have been identified during the first week of test execution.


Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the residual risks associated with the identified product risks, at the end of the first week of test execution?

• A.Since R3 is the only risk for which all test cases have passed, the risk has been reduced by 20%
• B.The test execution status table indicates that the risk has been reduced by 56%
• C.The residual risk level can't be determined, because it requires that all the test cases have been executed
• D.The test execution table doesn't give an indication of the risk level of the open defects and the test cases that failed or are not run yet

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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?
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• A.The defect management process
• B.The quality risk analysis process
• C.The system design and architecture design reviews
• D.The requirements review

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Defect Management
Which of the following information would you expect to be the most useful to perform a defect clustering analysis?

• A.The defect component information
• B.The lifecycle phase in which the defect has been introduced
• C.The defect removal efficiency information
• D.The trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution

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Test Management
Which of the following statements best describes an appropriate approach for managing exploratory testing?

• A.Define very detailed mission statements, which allow testing work to be broken into sessions of up to 10 minutes duration in which testing is guided by these mission statements
• B.Break the testing work in 30 to 120 minutes sessions and use properly defined mission statements consisting of two or three sentences to guide testing during these sessions
• C.Define very generic charters to drive exploratory testing sessions of 2 days where testers are completely free to decide what to test
• D.Exploratory testing should not be managed because such testing is inherently unmanageable and not measurable

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