ISTQB CTAL-TM Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 7

The Test Manager must assemble team members that have which of the following characteristics?

Which of the following can demotivate a tester?

You are the manager of a test team. You inherited most of these people from a previous manager who promoted technical skills, particularly programming skills. As a result, your people are very strong in test automation skills, white box testing and complex test design techniques. You have just been told that you can hire five new people. You want the new people to complement the existing skill sets and you want to be sure the team will have a strong mutual respect.

Given the following options, who should you hire? [3]

You have just conducted a skills assessment for your team. You decided to rate everyone from 1 to 5 in the skill areas as follows:

5 = expert

4 = proficient

3 = can use this skill effectively but will need some assistance

2 = interested in learning this skill but has only minimal knowledge

1 = not interested in learning this skill

Given these values, you have rated your team as shown in the table below for the designated skill areas:

You will be starting to test a new product that is an upgrade from one of your existing end user products. Your testing will include white box,

performance, security, usability, and black box. You also have a goal to automate 100% of the smoke test and 50% of the regression tests by the end of the release.

Your team willingly shares knowledge and conducts regular lunch time cross-training sessions.

Your manager wants to know if you would like to bring in someone to help train your team in preparation for this project. In which area could you best utilize this help? [3]

Following identification of a number of costly system performance failures late in the development lifecycle, your organisation has introduced a more rigorous review process for system design documents and source code to enhance phase containment. There will be subsequent checks to see if the improved review process detects/prevents these types of performance defects which are likely to have the highest impact on the technical behavior of the system. You have been tasked with evaluating the current defect management tool that will be used to support the reviews and dynamic testing, to ensure that the correct defect data attributes will be captured to enable these checks to be done.

Which three of the following attributes would be MOST effective?

a) Phase of introduction

b) Severity

c) Steps to reproduce the failure

d) Resolution details

e) Phase of detection

SELECT ONE OPTION

Which one of the following is NOT a determining factor when considering the optimal time to conduct a document review? SELECT ONE OPTION

You are a Test Manager at a company that develops mobile phone applications. Based on historical data in your company, you have calculated the following average metrics for system testing:

* for each 100 LOC (Lines Of Code). 4 test cases are executed

* each test case takes on average 15 minutes to execute and check

* for each 1000 LOC, 5 defects are found

You have used this information to create an estimate for the system testing of a new mobile phone application being developed to submit gas and electricity readings.

The application delivered for system testing has 50.000 lines of code. At the end of system testing, 250 defects are discovered.

Assume that:

* the system test of the new mobile phone application will require the same amount of effort as previous applications

* defect density = number of defects/1000 LOC

* no new tools or processes have been introduced to the test team

Based only on the given information, which one of the following statements is true about this new mobile phone application?

SELECT ONE OPTION

You are the Test Manager for a software house (SoftTech), who provide a core banking product to retail banks around the world to enable their customers to process payments via the Internet and telephone banking.

Your current project is to integrate SoftTech's core banking product with Welsh Bank's existing bank systems. However, Welsh Bank's systems are maintained by experienced developers and are poorly documented.

Welsh Bank has stated that this project must comply with Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulatory banking standards.

A specification for the 10 interfaces to Welsh Bank's existing systems has been produced by SoftTech's development team.

You have been asked to plan and conduct reviews for the system integration and support documentation of all the systems. Which of the following is the BEST approach for this project?

SELECT ONE OPTION

Your project manager has requested that you run management reviews in her absence. Which two of the following might you be expected to do at these reviews?

a. Check for defects in requirements documents.

b. Check the process to see if it passes the assessment.

c. Check the consistency of the project plan.

d. Check compliance by conducting evidential interviews

e. Check adequacy of management procedures.

f. Check contractual compliance for a software product Select one correct answer from the options below: