ISTQB CTAL-TM Value Pack (Frequently Bought Together)

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]

• A. Training in automation
• B. Training in domain knowledge
• C. Training in customer support
• D. Training in black box techniques

Which ONE of the following is considered to be the LEAST independent form of testing for anorganisation?
SELECT ONE OPTION

• A. Testing is performed by specialists from the business organisation.
• B. Testing is performed by an organisation external to the company that has developed the code.
• C. Testing is performed by a tester who is part of an independent test team.
• D. Testing is performed by a tester who is part of the development team.

It is the last day of an iteration and one of the teams is clearly not going to deliver all of the work that it committed to at the beginning of the iteration. The scrum master has asked you for ideas about how to perform the afternoon's retrospective in order to learn the appropriate lessons.
You have started the retrospective meeting by presenting this as its main goal. Which next two steps will be MOST effective?

• A. Identify the work items that exceeded their estimates and by how much, then consider why these estimates were inaccurate
• B. Identify the work items that exceeded their estimates and by how much, then identify the team member (s) who most influenced these estimates
• C. Decide on ways to make these estimates more accurate, then decide on an improvement plan and responsibilities in order to implement them
• D. Identify the work items that exceeded their estimates and by how much, then consider ways to make these estimates more accurate

You plan to introduce a new tester to your Agile team who has expertise in test automation, a necessary skill lacking in current team members. The individual has a high degree of technical competence but has only ever worked alone and admits to finding face-to-face communication difficult.
What would be the BEST course of action?

• A. Do not use this person. Face-to-face communication is essential in Agile and they will only prove disruptive
• B. Peer learning and sharing occurs naturally in Agile teams, so there is no need for any training
• C. Provide them with details of an online self-study program covering communication skills
• D. Send them on an external training course covering communications skills and connect them with an experienced mentor

You have been seeing a high number of rejections of defect reports The developers are complaining that they do not understand what the problem is. even though they have been supplied with screenshots. You have checked a number of the 'problem' defect reports and have not found any information that is missing. The descriptions are very detailed and include all the necessary information in a long descriptive paragraph.
What change should you recommend that should help with the developer s problems?

• A. instruct your team to make all defects high priority so the developers have more urgency behind making the fixes
• B. In addition to attaching the screenshots to the defect report, ask the testers to also email them to the developer
• C. With the problem reports highlight all the information and then walk through it with the developers so they see it is all there
• D. Separate out the steps to reproduce the defect in the description so it is clearer for the developers and easier to find