ISTQB CTAL-TM Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 4

You are the Test Manager on a new project. The schedule is aggressive and will require the team to work at peak efficiency. The requirements are not well defined yet, but it is clear that the project will be using new technologies. To help the developers meet the development schedule, an offshore group will be added to the development team.

At this time there is not enough budget to add more testing resources. The project stakeholders are very concerned about the quality of the delivered product and will be watching the project closely, particularly during the testing cycles. The exit criteria from the system test level require no open high priority/severity defects, 100% pass rate for all test cases covering risks that are classified as 'high' or 'very high', 95% pass rate for all 'medium' risks and 75% pass rate for all 'low' and 'very low' risks.

Given this information, which of the activities of the standard test process are the most critical for the Test Manager to perform? [3]

Which of the following is an advantage of specifying test conditions at a detailed level?

You are testing a new product that will turn on the windshield wipers of a car when the sensors detect there is moisture on the windshield. Depending on the information returned from the sensors, the wipers will be turned on at one of the following speeds: slow intermittent, medium intermittent, fast intermittent, slow constant, medium constant, fast constant. Your team has identified the following test condition:

Test Condition 1.1.1 - Verify that the windshield wipers can go from slow constant to fast constant speed when the amount of moisture increases appropriately.

Your team has defined the following steps for a test case for this test condition:

1. Set the moisture sensor to request slow constant

2. Increase the moisture to set the sensor to request fast constant

3. Verify that the wipers respond with fast constant speed

Given this information, which of the following statements is correct? [2]

You are the Test Manager for a new product that is being developed according to an iterative lifecycle. At this point, you have 100% of your smoke tests automated, 20%

of your functional tests and 50% of your regression tests. Your iterations are four weeks long. You are finding that with each iteration significant maintenance is required for your automated tests and you are not able to complete the testing within the planned timeframe. The test plan you created at the beginning of the project indicates that all automated tests should be run before any manual tests.

Which of the following is a reasonable change to this plan based on how the project is going? [2]

What is the primary use for the traceability information regarding the relationship between test results and test conditions during test execution? [2]

During what step of the Fundamental Test Process should you define the methods to be used to collect test metrics?

You just handed over the Defect Accepted and Deferred report to your Maintenance team.

Which testing activity are you performing?

You are reviewing the project's traceability matrix after the first cycle of testing. You have discovered that new requirements have been introduced and others have changed.

What should you do? [2]

While mining the defect database for patterns of problems in the last release, a Test Manager notices that many of the most damaging failures were caused by defects injected during the low-level design phase.

Which of the following actions will likely give this project the most effective solution to this problem? [3]