You are the Test Manager on a project following an iterative life-cycle model. The project should consist of nine iterations of one month duration each. It is planned to develop the most important features to have a stable core of the application in the first three iterations and to add the additional features in the last six iterations.
At the beginning of the first iteration, only a draft version of the requirements specification document for the core features is available. Assume that during each of the first three iterations, the chosen features are fully completed and unit tested.
Which of the following statements is true in this context?
K4 3 credits

• A.You should allocate all the effort for the system test phase only in the last iteration
• B.The system test phase should start when all the requirements are frozen
• C.You should allocate a large effort for system testing during the first three iterations
• D.You should apply the same test strategy as used in a sequential life cycle model

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Testing Process
The following are the exit criteria described in the test plan of a software product:
EX1. The test suite for the product must ensure that at least each quality risk item is covered by at least one test case (a quality risk item can be covered by more test cases).
EX2. All test cases in the test suite must be run during the execution phase.
EX3. Defects are classified into two categories: "C" (critical defect) and "NC" (non-critical defect). No known C defects shall exist in the product at the end of the test execution phase.
Which of the following information is useless when the specified exit criteria is evaluated?
Number of correct responses: 1
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• A.The execution status of all the test cases extracted from the test management tool
• B.A list of all the open defects with the associated classification information extracted from the defect tracking system
• C.A traceability matrix showing the relationships between the product risk items and the test cases
• D.A chart, showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution, extracted from the defect tracking system

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You have been promoted to Test Manager within your company. Your new manager states that your test team utilized a risk-based test approach for the last release but in production, a number of serious failures in lightly tested areas have occurred.
What would be your first action prior to the start of the next test phase for the next release? [3]

• A.Ensure you have the correct stakeholders' participation during the risk assessment process
• B.Review the test cases executed from the previous release.
• C.Request functional requirements be prioritized in order of importance to the stakeholder.
• D.Review the production defects and determine if they are valid.

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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 audit ability.
Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe how to organize the test plan?
K3 2 credits

• 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 describing the relationship between the four levels, and four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level
• C.Produce four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level, without a master test plan
• D.Produce a master test plan that covers three levels (component, integration, system test) and a separate acceptance test plan

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Which of the following factors could negatively influence a review?
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• A.Include as many people as possible in order to have more viewpoints about possible problems on the item under review
• B.Include people who are detail-oriented and scrupulous at finding issues
• C.Include people with the adequate level of knowledge, both technical and procedural
• D.Include people able to contribute to a clear, thoughtful, constructive and objective discussion

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