BCS TM12 Value Pack (Frequently Bought Together)

Consider a defect report and assume that a part of its lifecycle includes the following states:
New: Is the initial state
Working: Means that the developers are addressing the defect in order to produce a fix for the defect
Clarification: Means that the developers need more information from the tester to address the defect and produce a fix for the defect and the tester is working to provide this information to the developers
Verification: Means that a fix for the defect has been produced and the tester is running the adequate tests to verify whether the fix solves the defect
Closed: is the final state
Which of the following answers represents an invalid sequence of states that can't lead the bug report to the "Closed" state?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. New, Working, Clarification, Working, Verification, Closed
• B. New, Working, Verification, Closed
• C. New, Working, Verification, Working, Clarification, Working, Verification, Closed
• D. New, Working, Verification, Working, Clarification, Working, Closed

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?
Number of correct responses: 1

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

Your test team consists of four members (Mary, Bob, Mark, Dave) with different interpersonal skills.
The following skills assessment spreadsheet shows the characteristics of the team members with respect to a list of interpersonal-skills (for each characteristic only the member with the highest level of that characteristic is indicated and marked with 'X'):

On the next project a member of your test team will have to perform some routine tasks requiring collaboration with other teams.
Who in your test team would you expect to be most suitable at doing these tasks?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. Dave
• B. Bob
• C. Mary
• D. Mark

Which of the following statements, about the test reporting activities for a project adopting an iterative lifecycle model with very short iterations (e.g. two weeks iterations), is correct?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. Test reporting activities can't be influenced by the use of an iterative lifecycle model with short iterations
• B. Test reporting activities are less important for projects adopting an iterative life cycle model with short iterations.
  They should be performed at the end of the last iteration
• C. Test reporting activities are still important with an iterative lifecycle. The reports can be used to conduct post- iteration review sessions before starting with the next iteration
• D. Test reporting activities are not important for projects adopting an iterative lifecycle model with short iterations

Assume you are currently working on a project developing a system where functional requirements are very well specified. Unfortunately non-functional requirements do almost not exist.
You are the Test Manager. You have to choose a technique for test selection that allows testing of non-functional characteristics, especially reliability.
Which of the following techniques for test selection do you expect being most useful in this scenario?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. A model-based technique based on the creation of operational profiles
• B. Cause-effect graphing
• C. Ambiguity reviews
• D. Test condition analysis