Chapter 5

1. Which of the following alternative describes NOT true about usage of

identifying product risks..
a) It is used to decide about the tool support for the test
b) It is used to determine the test techniques to be used
c) It is used to decide the extend of testing activity
d) It is used to decide what to test early
2. Incident management deals with…[K2]
A. …. Management of deviations from the project plan.
B. … Registration of problems, faults and failures.
C. … Showing product quality through use of metrics.
D. … Definition and implementation of new software requirements.
E. … Development of proposals to correct faults.
a) A, B and E are true, C and D are false
b) A, C and D are true, B and E are false
c) A, B and C are true, D and E are false
d) B and C are true, A, D and E are false
3. You have become the test manager of a software development project that
is already underway. Which questions do you ask FIRST in order to write a
test plan and to define the overall testing strategy?...[K2]
A. What are the biggest product risks?
B. Where and how are the system requirements specified?
C. Is there already test data available?
D. When is the project due to be finished?
E. Have end-users already been selected as testers?
F. Is a tool for automated testing in place?
a) A, B and D are true; C, E and F are false
b) A, C and E are true; B, D and F are false
c) A, D and F are true; B, C and E are false
d) B, C and D are true; A, E and F are false
4. Which of the following alternatives are typical test exit criteria?...[K2]
a) Thoroughness measures, reliability measures, test cost, schedule, state of defect
correction and residual risks.
b) Thoroughness measures, reliability measures, degree of tester independence and
product completeness.
c) Thoroughness measures, reliability measures, test cost, time to market and
product completeness, number of defects.
d) Time to market, residual defects, tester qualification, degree of tester
independence, thoroughness measures and test cost.
5. Which of the following are NOT valid objectives for incident reports?...[K2]
a) Provide developers and other parties with feedback about problem to enable
identification, isolation and correction as necessary
b) Provide ideas for test process improvement
c) Provide a vehicle for assessing tester competence
d) Provide testers with a means of tracking the quality of the system under test
6. Which of the following details would most likely be included in an incident
report?
I. Identification of the test item (configuration item) and environment
II. Development process characteristics such as organization stability and
test process used
III. A review of the test basis, such as requirements, design, interfaces
IV. Scope or degree of the impact on the stakeholders’ interest.
a) I, II and III
b) II and III
c) I and IV
d) III and IV
7. Which of the following alternatives are typical project risks to be
considered by the test manager?...[K2]
a) Delays and especially complex areas in the delivered product.
b) Low quality of requirements, design, code and tests, as well as failure-prone
areas in the delivered product.
c) Potential failure areas in the software or system.
d) Supplier problems, organizational factor and the quality of design code and tests
8. Which is a correct explanation about product risk?..[K1]
a) Due to shortage of budgets, testing members can’t be assigned to a testing team
as planned.
b) Delivery of software which may include some easy bugs.
c) Due to delay of development phase, period of test phase get to be shortened
d) Due to a wrong order of testing tools, the progress of testing phases gets to delay
9. Which of the following alternatives are typical product risks to be
considered by the test manager? ...[K3]
a) Error-prone areas; the potential harm to the user; poor product characteristics
b) Low quality of requirements, design, code and tests, as well as error-prone
areas.
c) Political problems and delays in especially complex areas in the product.
d) Problems in defining the right requirements; potential failure areas in the
software or system
10. Which of following is a typical test leader’s tasks?

a. Set up the test environment often coordinating with system

administration and network management
b. Prepare and acquire test data
c. Adapt planning based test result and progress
d. Use test administration or management tools and test monitoring tools as
required
11. Which of following is a typical tester’s tasks?

a. Write test summary report based on the information gathered during

testing
b. Select tools to support testing and organize any training in tool use for
tester
c. Analyze, review and assess user requirements, specifications and models
for testability
d. Contribute the testing perspective to other project activities, such as
integration planning

12. Which of following is NOT a Test Planning Activity in Test Planning?

a. Determining the scope and risks and identifying the objectives into the
software life cycle activities
b. Integrating and coordination the testing activities into the software life
cycle activities
c. Assigning resources for the different activities defined
d. Estimating the tasks based in estimates made by the owner of the tasks or
by experts

13. Which of following is NOT a typical Entry Criteria?

a. Estimates of defect density or reliability measure

b. Test tool readiness in test environment
c. Test environment availability and readiness
d. Testable code availability

14. Which of following is NOT correct about Metrics which should be

collected during and at the end of a test level in order to assess?

a. The adequacy of the test objectives for that test level

b. The adequacy of the test approaches taken
c. The effectiveness of the testing with respect to the objectives
d. The adequacy of the testers anticipate defects based in experience
15. Which of following is NOT a Test control actions in Test Progress
monitoring and control?

a. Making decisions based on information from test monitoring

b. Setting an exit criterion requiring fixed to have been re-tested
c. Re-prioritizing tests when an identified risk occurs
d. Changing the test schedule due to availability to test environment

16. Which of following is a Product Risk?

a. Failure – prone software delivered

b. Problems in defining the right requirements
c. Test environment not ready on time
d. Low quality of the design, code, configuration data, test data and tests

17. Which of following is a Project Risk?

a. Improper attitude toward or expectations of testing

b. The potential that the software/hardware could case harm to an individual
or company
c. Poor data integrity and quality
d. Software that does not perform its intended functions

[Link] of following is correct to be defined as the chance of an event,

hazard, threat or situation occurring and resulting undesirable
consequences or a potential problem?

a. Defect
b. Incident
c. Risk
d. Failure

[Link] of following is NOT objectives of incident report ?

a. Provide developers and other parties with feedback about the problem to
enable identification, isolation and correction as necessary
 b. Provide test leaders a means of tracking the quality of the system under
test and the progress of the testing
c. Provide ideas for test process improvement
d. Provide evidence of tester’s worthiness

[Link] is a typical task for a tester?

a) Plan the tests

b) Write a test strategy
c) Write test summary report
d) Review tests developed by others

21.  Which of the following is a major task of test planning?

a) Initiation of corrective action

b) Measuring and analyzing results
c) Determining the exit criteria
d) Monitoring and documenting process

22. Which of the following activities, which is the least important within test
management?

a) Test estimation
b) Test planning
c) Defect fixing
d) Test control
 
23. Planning is influenced by the test policy of the organization, the scope of testing,
objectives, risks, constraints, criticality, testability and availability of resources. As
the project and test planning progress, more information becomes available and
more detail can be included in the plan. What is the purpose of test exit criteria in a
test plan: [K1]

a) To set the criteria used in generating test inputs

b) To plan when to stop testing
c) To know when a specific test has finished its execution
d) To ensure that the test case specification is complete 
[Link] of following is NOT correct about Metrics which should be
collected during and at the end of a test level in order to assess?
a) The adequacy of the test objectives for that test level.
b) The adequacy of the test approaches taken
c) The effectiveness of the testing with respect to the objectives
d) The adequacy of the tester anticipate defects based on experience

[Link] conducting reviews, psychological sensitivity is required. Which

mistake often occurs when conducting reviews and may lead to
interpersonal problems within teams?
a) Testers and reviewers expect that defects in the software product are already
found and fixed by the developers.
b) Tester and reviewers communicate defects as criticism against humans
instead of against the software product.
c) Due to time constraints, tester and reviewers do not believe they can afford
enough time to find failures.
d) Tester and reviewers are not sufficiently trained to accurately identify
failures and faults in the item under review
[Link] of following is project risk?
a) A problem with the development manager which is resulting in his rejecting
all defect reports 
b) An issue with the interface between the system under test and a peripheral
device
c) A failed performance test
d) A module that performs incorrect calculations due to a defect in a formula
 [Link] have been given the following set of test cases to run. You have
been instructed to
run them in order by risk and to accomplish the testing as quickly as
possible to provide
feedback to the developers as soon as possible. Given this information,
what it the best
order in which to run these tests? [K3]

Risk
Dependen
Test Name Priorit
cy
case ID y
1 Purchase  Item 2 none
Receive 3 Test  1
2 Invoice
Receive 2 Test  1
3 Goods
4 Send  Payment 3 Test  3
Report 1 Test  41
5 Payments

a) 5,1,3,2,4
b) 1,2,4,3,5
c) 1,3,2,4,5
d) 3,4,5,1,2

[Link] have received the following description section in an incident report.

The report executed per the attached steps, but the data was incorrect. For
example, the information in column 1 was wrong. See the attached screenshot.
This report is critical to the users and they will be unable to do their jobs
without this information.
What is the biggest problem with this incident report?

a) The developer doesn’t know what the tester expected to see

b) The developer won’t know how to repeat the test
c) The developer won’t know how important the problem is
d) The developer won’t be able to see what the tester is saying is wrong